Category: moon

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 […]

Moonset, sunset

With cold, clear skies over Kitimat in late January, both the waning and waxing (new) moon appeared over the mountains and the channel close to sunset. January 21 had high clouds that hid the moon, but the sky was clear again on January 22.

Harvest Moon

October’s full moon is known as the Harvest Moon. With Kitimat finally experiencing clear skies, it was my opporunity to shoot, mainly with my new Sony 400-800 lens. I captured the full Harvest Moon rising on the evening of October 7. This is a colour image. October 8 was cloudy with sunny breaks and overcast […]

After the storm

It was a stormy night and early morning on September 27, when I went to Haisla to photograph the unveiling of the legacy pole. I noticed that the storm had uprooted a tree and it had somehow become planted in Douglas Channel just off the village dyke. The sun had come out for the pole […]

Blood red moon and super flare

On the evening of September 2, the 70 per cent waxing gibbous moon appeared blood red due to high smoke from the BC interior wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare. There was a single flare during the time when it was still daylight at 8:10 pm. When I went out again at between 9:31 […]

Apocalyptic smoke scenes in Kitimat

(Updated Sept. 4, 2025 with enhanced NASA images, the MODIS picture of the day, replacing earlier live image from Worldview) Double trouble for Kitimat on September 2, 2025. There were apocalyptic skies with heavy smoke looking like a J. M. W. Turner painting. The heavy smoke came from two sources. The winds are blowing smoke […]