logo

Menu

  • Photography Blog
  • Photo books
  • News and weather
    • Enbridge Northern Gateway
  • People in the news
  • Northwest BC Industries
  • Natural world
    • Wildlife
  • Sea
  • Lakes, rivers and wetlands
  • Land
  • Photo Services
    • Portrait photojournalism
    • Commercial photography
    • Guides and outfitters
    • Photo printing
    • Photo books
  • Bio
  • Contact

Recent Posts

  • A rare winter bird in Kitimat, Townsend’s solitaire (plus a couple of eagles)
  • June birding: An immature bald eagle, western tanager and more
  • Haisla Bridge Replacement Project Girder Launching Ceremony
  • A mink on a log. How I got the shot (plus some bald eagles)
  • Canada Geese overhead

RSS Model making and diorama photography

  • A cold, wet winter on Arch-to
  • Dollar Store Dinosaurs
  • Star Wars #ourgreatindoors
  • The Rusty Romulan
  • Hot chicken Jedha

Posts Tagged “forest”

Fall colors on Thanksgiving

Fall colours reflected on Minette Bay on still waters at low tide. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2019 Robin Rowland
BC, fall, forest, Kitimat, Photoblog, Sony RX10iiiautumn , British Columbia , fall colors , forest , Kitimat , Minette Bay , reflection

Birds in the nearby forest

Birds in the nearby forest

I usually take a morning walk through a forest park near my house. We had the first major frost this morning, and so the resident birds, steller’s jays, American robins and juncos were very active.

A steller jay in an old tree. (Robin Rowland)

A steller jay  explores through the cover of grass. (Robin Rowland)

A steller jay peeks through the cover of grass. (Robin Rowland)

An American robin in a forest mountain ash tree. (Robin Rowland)

An American robin in a forest mountain ash tree. (Robin Rowland)

An Oregon junco hides in the underbrush. (Robin Rowland)

October 9, 2019 Robin Rowland
birds, Kitimat, Photography, robin, Sony RX10iii, steller's jayAmerican robin , Bird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , forest , Kitimat , photoblog , steller's jay

Water Lilies at Pine Lake, BC

Channeling Claude Monet on a back country wilderness hike. Water lilies from Pine Lake, north west of Terrace, BC, taken August 6, 2018.

 





August 7, 2018 Robin Rowland
impressionist, landscape, Sony RX10iiiBritish Columbia , Claude Monet , forest , lake , water lily , wetland

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2017 Robin Rowland
Alpha 77, black and white, boreal, fog, Photoblog, rain forest, summitBlack-and-white , British Columbia , fog , forest , Kitimat , trees , Weather

Moon setting over Twin Falls, near Smithers BC

twinfallsmoon6bwfdh

The moon is setting over Twin Falls, a provincial park, northwest of Smithers, British Columbia on the morning of August 25, 2016. Sony Alpha 7II, with Sony G 70-300. (Robin Rowland)

Converted with Silver FX Pro.

September 1, 2016 Robin Rowland
Alpha 7II, black and white, boreal, moon, mountains, nature, PhotoblogBlack-and-white , British Columbia , forest , landscape , Moon , mountain , Smithers , waterfall

A New Year’s photography party on the mudflats of Minette Bay, Kitimat

Minette_frozencreek1bw

As the tide goes out, the ice  covering a briny tidal creek collapses, leaving  patterned cracks. Minette Bay, Kitimat January 1. 2016. (Robin Rowland)

I spent New Year’s Day on the mudflats of Minette Bay, near Kitimat, with other local photographers.   At low tide,  of course.   Ruth and Howard Mills who run the luxury B&B the Minette Bay Lodge invited us for the photo walk on the ice and mud followed by  hot soup and great New Year’s snacks.

Most of my images look best in black and white.  There are few in colour at the end of the blog.

Instagram
minetteby_MtEliz_1bw

Looking across Minette Bay with Kitimat’s iconic Mt. Elizabeth in the background.  Just after noon the water was just a couple  of centimetres deep, covered in thin layers of ice.  The cold made the mud solid enough so that it wouldn’t be boot grabbing ooze you experience in the summer. January 1, 2016 (Robin Rowland)

minettebeach_1bwThe beach, covered in seaweed, snow and old logs looking west from the trail,  January 1, 2016. (Robin Rowland)

Minette_mudflats1bw

Looking west toward Douglas Channel, and the Rio Tinto aluminum plant with the winter sun low over the hills to the south. January 1, 2016. (Robin Rowland)
stumpthrone1bw

The twisted roots of a dead tree lying on the beach in some ways reminded me of the Iron Throne. Game of Stumps, anyone? (Robin Rowland)

Minette_2frozencreek2bw
Walking back to the lodge along the creek trail. January 1, 2016. (Robin Rowland)

Minette_2frozencreek4bw
Another angle on the creek from a bridge a little further along the trail. (Robin Rowland)


iceandlog1

Ice on a chunk of rotten log on the mudflats. January 1, 2016. (Robin Rowland)

icecrystal1

An ice crystal floats on the thin layer of water on top of the frozen mud. (Robin Rowland)

lightinforest1

The winter sun shines through the rain forest. January 1, 2016. (Robin Rowland)

photogs1

Happy New Year! Kitimat’s photographers celebrate in the middle of a day on the ice. (Robin Rowland)

January 2, 2016 Robin Rowland
Alpha 77, Alpha 7II, Alpha6000, black and white, Douglas Channel, ice, Kitimat, nature, Photoblog, Photography, seascape, snow, sunBlack-and-white , British Columbia , clouds , Douglas Channel , forest , Kitimat , low tide , Minette Bay , New Year , seascape , snow

When the weather outside is frightful, it’s hard to tell the difference between black and white or colour

When the weather outside is frightful, it’s hard to tell the difference between black and white or colour

It’s been mostly a wet and foggy winter so far in Kitimat, known so far as Snow Valley.  Looking out from my front window. I can see the low lying fog along the Kitimat River and Kitimat harbour, often totally obscuring Douglas Channel.   Often the fog seems to hug the ground, meaning the tops of the conifers emerge from the fog to create a mysterious landscape.   With the late December sun low in the southern sky, days before the Solstice,  there is very little light. And as the headline indicates, under these conditions it’s hard to tell the difference between the original colour imagine and a black and white conversion.

 

Fog in Kitimat Valley

The original colour image, using the cloudy white balance setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw. (Robin Rowland)

Instagram
Fog in Kitimat Valley

The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)

Fog in the Kitimat Valley

An original colour imagine of the trees in the fog, using the “as shot” setting in Adobe Photoshop Raw white balance.

Fog in the Kitimat valley

The black and white conversion. (Robin Rowland)

Technical note. Sony Alpha 6000, using vintage Tele-Astranar 400mm F6.3 Prime telephoto, attached by an T-mount E-mount converter. ISO 4000 1/250 manual aperture f22.

December 22, 2014 Robin Rowland
Adobe, Alpha6000, black and white, Kitimat, landscape, Photoblog, Photography, Photoshop, snow, TechniquesBlack-and-white , British Columbia , fog , forest , Kitimat , landscape , Tele-Astranar , trees
Next Page »

Archives

Archives

Search

All images Copyright © 2022 By Robin Rowland. All Rights Reserved.
WordPress Themes Copyright © 2017. by Web-Dorado