Category: sunset

September skies

Kitmat BC’s official motto is “A Marvel of Nature and Industry.”   Even so I don’t get much of a chance to take a photograph that illustrates that idea.  September 9 did give me an opporunity.  A beautiful early fall night.   I first stepped out, the rising  31.1% waxing ccrescent moon  was over Douglas Channel,  along […]

My visits to Santorini in 1976 and 1981

Much of the world’s major media have reported that the beautiful Greek island of Santorini is a prime example of overtourism n 2024.   That pronoted me to write  a memoir of my visit first in 1976 When Santorini was remote, welcoming, and cheap. For my photography site  I have added the photographs from that essay […]

First quarter moon at sunset over Douglas Channel

I have a great view of Douglas Channel from my bedroom window.  I usually take the images with my Galaxy S23 (base model) with the high resolution Export Raw app. They are then processed with Afinity Photo.

Polar vortex January 2024, the view from my window

There was a polar vortex over most of western North America for the past few days, with temperatures in Kitimat from -16 C with windchills as much as -30 at times. I did not venture out into the cold. All the photographs were taken from my upstairs bedroom with my Samsung Android S23, with the […]

Remembering my visit to Florence, Oregon, which inspired the novel Dune

It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]

The moon chases the setting sun over Ursula Channel

The first quarter moon chases the setting sun over Ursula Channel as we return home from a day trip on the salt chuck, August 28, 2017. (Robin Rowland) Ursula Channel is south of Kitimat, east Gribbel Island, southeast of Hawksbury Island (part of the system of channels, passages and “canals” known collectively as The Channel. […]