Category: Kitimat

My afternoon with a hummingbird

It was a beautiful warm sunny summer afternoon on Thursday June 18, 2026. I took a break to sit out on my back deck. I just happened to glimpse at a female rufous hummingbird sitting in the cedar tree beside the deck. She has visited my feeder as few days before in a nasty rainstorm. […]

The “moon” of Sauron

For the past year people in Kitimat have called the LNG Canada flare “the eye of Sauron” after how it was depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie The Two Towers On May 31, 2026, I woke up at 3:34 am in time to catch the May blue “micro” full moon right over […]

Birds in May

May has been a very busy month, so I am posting the best or most interesting bird photos for the month in one go. I was on my back, having an afternoon cup of tea, when this male yellow-rumpled warbler flew out of the cedar tree and onto the power line. On May 26, shooting […]

Moon over Douglas Channel

The clear weather continues. Woke up again just before 6 am. The moon, 88.9 per cent waning gibbous was right over Douglas Channel. Rather than go outside, I just grabbed my Alpha 55 with the Tamron 70-300 which I keep by my deck for bird photography and shot through my bedroom window.

The flare through a vintage lens and digital filters

The LNG Canada flare for April 29. A different approach for a vintage look rather instead of the regular digital images. I am using an old 1960s 205mm manual Vivitar lens with a conversion for a modern digital camera. Wide shot from a Minolta 28mm manual lens.

In memory of Joanne Monaghan

The people of Kitimat came together on Saturday, April 25, to celebrate the life of former mayor Joanne Monaghan who passed away on March 26, 2026, after decades of service to the community.

April “Pink” moon rising over Kitimat

It was uncertain whether I could shoot the April “Pink” full moon on April 1. For most of the day and early evening there was cloud cover, ranging from Stratocumulus to Cumulus, I had an evening meeting and as I left the meeting around 2045, looked up saw a lot of cloud cover. I had […]