Monday May 18 was a mostly rainy, windy day in Kitimat. Late in the evening, just after ten, I stepped out on my deck and saw through a break in the clouds, the crescent new moon and a bright star. A quick check on the Sky Map app (link to web version) on my phone […]
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 […]
