Category: fall

Morning light

We’ve had stormy weather in Kitimat for days now. Yet when the sun has come up each morning, there is a break in the clouds that produces wonderful golden hour morning light on what’s left of the fall leaves. First two mountain ash with other trees in the background lighting up the silhouette. Number three […]

A raven, the rain and some berries

The weather here in Kitimat on Saturday, November 3, 2018, was miserable, with heavy rain. I don’t often get ravens in my backyard but on Saturday morning, one landed in the mountain ash tree in my backyard to sample the berries. You can tell just how wet it was from the drips on the berries. […]

Calm between storms, slack tide in Kitimat harbour

  The Hawaiian hurricanes that follow the path of the “Pineapple Express” across the northern Pacific normally dwindle to rain storms by the time they reach the Kitimat Valley. On October 9, 2015, however, what was left of Hurricane Oho was still at tropical storm strength. I was assigned by Global BC to get storm […]

Super tide on the Skeena

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 […]