Remembrance Day in Kitimat, 2016
November 11, 2016
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Canada Day, Kitimat, BC, July 1, 2016
July 3, 2016
Two women dressed as suffragettes hold a Canadian flag during the Canada Day parade in Kitimat, July 1, 2016. The theme for the parade marked one hundred years of the woman’s vote in Canada. (Robin Rowland) The parade began in heavy rain. (Robin Rowland) Mayor Phil Germuth wields water guns during the parade. Everyone […]
As the tide goes out, the ice covering a briny tidal creek collapses, leaving patterned cracks. Minette Bay, Kitimat January 1. 2016. (Robin Rowland) I spent New Year’s Day on the mudflats of Minette Bay, near Kitimat, with other local photographers. At low tide, of course. Ruth and Howard Mills who run the […]
Super tide on the Skeena
September 28, 2015
I had great plans for shooting the super moon and the eclipse blood moon on Sunday night, September 27. Unfortunately the ideal shot of the moon rising over our iconic Mt. Elizabeth (which I have captured in the past) was impossible, there was a storm blowing in, and the overcast was so heavy that dark […]
Kitimat celebrates Canada Day 2015
July 4, 2015
The winning float in the 2015 Kitimat Canada parade from the Community Supper Club. (Robin Rowland) Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison who is retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads the Canada Day parade. (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Fire and Rescue. (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Marine Rescue Society (Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue SAR 63) […]
Impressions of a rewilded Kitimat
June 12, 2015
My home, Kitimat, BC has had a taste of “rewilding.” District employees were on strike from February 28, 2015 until today, June 12, which meant the grass in the parks, verges and byways has been growing wild since the spring thaw. The grass, blowing in the wind, creates beautiful, impressionistic patterns….and have become (until the […]
A robin hunts for bugs in a pile of moss
May 28, 2015
An American robin, searching for bugs, tosses a pile of moss out of the way as the sun sets over Kitimat, May 27, 2015. (Robin Rowland) The sun was setting over my yard, and this robin swoops down and stops on the fence post, looking down at a pile of moss that has grown up […]