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 […]
On this weekend most of North America was in the grip of a frigid polar vortex. On the northwest coast of British Columbia, the sky was clear (and there were few birds on the waterfront).
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.
I converted the colour harvest moon photos I took on Octoer 9 to black and white, creating dramatic inages.
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 […]
June’s Strawberry Moon was spectacular in Kitimat. In the moon’s cycle of an elliptical orbit it is its lowest point in the 18.6 years cycle. That meant the moon was low over Douglas Channel making for some great photos. The June 9 photos were taken with my Sony RX10iii, the other morning photos are a […]