Monday May 18 was a mostly rainy, windy day in Kitimat. Late in the evening, just after ten, I stepped out on my deck and saw through a break in the clouds, the crescent new moon and a bright star. A quick check on the Sky Map app (link to web version) on my phone […]
I converted the colour harvest moon photos I took on Octoer 9 to black and white, creating dramatic inages.
October’s full moon is known as the Harvest Moon. With Kitimat finally experiencing clear skies, it was my opporunity to shoot, mainly with my new Sony 400-800 lens. I captured the full Harvest Moon rising on the evening of October 7. This is a colour image. October 8 was cloudy with sunny breaks and overcast […]
On the evening of September 2, the 70 per cent waxing gibbous moon appeared blood red due to high smoke from the BC interior wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare. There was a single flare during the time when it was still daylight at 8:10 pm. When I went out again at between 9:31 […]
Last spring Sony released a new super telephoto zoom the FE 400–800 mm F6.3–8 G OSS . Prerelease reviews said was one of the best bird and nature photography lenses on the market. I was very hesitant, the base price is $4099.99 in Canada. After months of mostly glowing reviews the tempetation was increasing. Here in […]
It was a spectacular sight last night and I didn’t have to leave my front driveway. Some shots are a bit grainy, an artifact of my Sony RX10iii which I grabbed when I ssaw the show. The final two moon shots are taken with the Sony Alpha 7II and my new 400-800 lens, which was […]