It’s been mostly a wet and foggy winter so far in Kitimat, known so far as Snow Valley. Looking out from my front window. I can see the low lying fog along the Kitimat River and Kitimat harbour, often totally obscuring Douglas Channel. Often the fog seems to hug the ground, meaning the tops […]
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Christmas bird count in the Kitimat estuary
A great blue heron sits on some debris in Kitimat harbour, during my annual visit to the estuary for the Christmas bird count, Dec. 14, 2014. (Robin Rowland). There was more late afternoon light than last year . On the other hand, while my birdwatching colleagues did list lots of species around the area, the […]
Douglas Channel, near Bish Creek, on a stormy Sunday afternoon
Bish Creek, on the west side of Douglas Channel, south of Kitimat and near the proposed Chevron Kitimat LNG terminal site, photographed on a stormy Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2014.
A heroic memorial to a casualty of the First World War
The First World War began one hundred years ago tonight; a war that eventually killed 16 million people, including 10 million serving in various armed forces. This is just one story of a young Canadian flyer in the Royal Navy Air Service who died not in combat, but from an aircraft accident in 1917. H. […]
Old cedar stump in black and white
A little experimentation with black and white here. Three versions of the image blended together, a standard black and white conversion, with two versions from Perfect Effects 8, mostly selenium but also a smidgen of high key.
Alders at Pine Creek, black and white
On May 11, 2014, the leaves were just emerging on the alders along Pine Creek, just outside Kitimat, BC.
Douglas Channel from MK Bay in black and white
Waddle Creek flowing into the Kitimat Arm of Douglas Channel, near high tide at MK Bay, May 4, 2014.