I had great plans for shooting the super moon and the eclipse blood moon on Sunday night, September 27. Unfortunately the ideal shot of the moon rising over our iconic Mt. Elizabeth (which I have captured in the past) was impossible, there was a storm blowing in, and the overcast was so heavy that dark […]
A “Pineapple Express” brought a major blizzard to the Kitimat region last week, dropping approximately 180 centimetres of snow from the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015 until the skies cleared late on the afternoon of Saturday, February 7. In my neighborhood, the power first went out at about 3 pm on Thursday, came back […]
Boston, like Kitimat, is buried in snow. I was in Boston, staying in Cambridge for a conference, when the region was hit by a blizzard in December, 2003. According to the Boston Globe, the area has received 196 centimetres of snow so far this winter (77.3 inches). Kitimat got about 180 centimetres (70.80) inches during […]
On Thursday, October 3, I drove to Prince Rupert for an appointment. With heavy cloud cover on the way into to Rupert I didn’t get much of a chance to shoot the fall colours which are just beginning to peak on some parts of the Skeena (but not everywhere, due to micro-climates you can drive […]
The standard advice for photographing stars is to find a clear sky, far away from urban light pollution, with no moon and someplace solid where you can put a tripod. That’s great, perhaps for New Mexico, Arizona, or even parts of California. Up here in the northwest, where there is rain forest because it […]
An hour ago I look out my front window. A thunderstorm is approaching over the mountains to the east, the high clouds bright orange, lit by the setting summer sun to the west, and a rainbow is arching down from the clouds over the mountains that lead to Kitamaat Village. Grabbed the camera and ran […]
Kitimat, in the language of the neighboring Tshimshian First Nation means “people of the snow,” and Kitimat businesses often call themselves Snow Valley. And the area has set records for one day snowfall in Canada. Monday Dec. 13, 2010 was not much, just 30 centimetres, and people pretty well kept going about their business, just […]