The Harvest Supermoon rises at 8:32 pm on September 17 over Kitimat through some clouds hugging the mountains. The partial lunar eclipse was not visible here. The moon was below the horizon when the eclipse occurred from 7:12 to 7:44 pm PT in the northwest coast.
August was a good month for sky shooting. We had a couple of nights when the sky was clear enuogh for shooting the aurora borealis or nothern lights as the sun is at high activity at the moment. These are all shot from my back deck, which is not an ideal location with city […]
The weather was cold and clear in Kitimat at the end of October, which give me three days of opportunity to photograph the full Hunter’s Moon that was also close to the planet Jupiter. The close shots of the Moon and Jupiter were shot with my Sony Alpha 7II and a Sigma 100-499mm lens (not […]
A near blizzard did not stop the people of Kitimat turning out for the Remembrance Day service on November 11, 2017.
Tuesday, October 25, 2017 was a beautiful sunny afternoon after four days of storms, snow on Saturday and three days of heavy rain which reached more than 200 millimetres (about eight inches). The late fall sun was out but the Kitimat River was higher than usual. (Robin Rowland)
I went down “the Channel” (the collective name for the waters of Douglas Channel and the surrounding passages, channels and canals) with friends on Monday, August 28. We were first heading down Ursula Channel toward Monkey Beach where I was going to shoot some portraits of my friends, Before we got to Monkey Beach we […]