Category: mountains

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 […]

The nights of the Strawberry Moon

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 […]

Harvest Supermoon rises over Kitimat

The  Harvest Supermoon rises at 8:32 pm on September 17 over Kitimat through some clouds hugging the mountains. The partial lunar eclipse was not visible here. The moon was below the horizon when the eclipse occurred from 7:12 to 7:44 pm PT in the northwest coast.