Category: rain

The Sheepdogs and The Rats, Kitimat’s big concert

The Saskatoon based band The Sheepdogs,  headlined the evenung performance in Kitimat on Saturday, August 16, 2025, part of LNG Canada’s Big Thank You Party. Kitimat’s own rock band The Rats, opened the evening performance. The party, a year in the planning,  celebrated the completion of what could be just the first phase of the […]

Fireweed in heavy rain

Fireweed across the street in heavy rain, August 5, 2025.  One of the test shots for my new Sony 400-800mm E mount lens which arrived this afternoon.

Birding on assignment

I don’t usually go out to the waterfront for birding in squally and rainy weather. This weekend I was on a photo assignment to shoot the arrival and departure of the LNG tanker GasLog Glasgow. That meant were lots of opportunities at Wahtl Creek and MK Bay in Kitimat, BC on June 28. June 28 […]

First LNG shipment leaves Kitimat June 28 to June 30, 2025

  The first shipment of kiquefied natural gas from the LNG Canada facility here in Kitimat departed on on a rainy and squally afternoon of June 30,  the GasLog Glasgow arrived very early on June 28, loaded the shipment and then departed for Korea on June 30. Images shot on assignment for  The Globe and […]

The high flare

The natural gas flare rises an estimated 60 metres above a tower at the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, BC, June 18. Beginning on June 16, the extensive flaring is part of the flushing and cool down process prior to the liquified natural gas plant becoming operational. The flare height will vary between 20 metres […]

Foggy Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day,  March 17, 2025, a foggy  and rainy day at  the famous  ancient Bronze Age Dun Aengus (Anglicized) fort on the Isle of Aran, County Galway,  Ireland. I visited Dún Aonghasa  (Irish)   during a trip to Ireland in the spring of 1978.  Ancestry says I am 16% Irish.

A flare in the fog

The second atmospheric river hit Kitimat on September 24, with the town socked in all day.  So here is the LNG Canada flare through the fog.