Winter 2025 has been spectacular for photographing from my front yard and in some cases bedroom window. The planets Jupiter, Saturn and Venus were visible at times and capping it off was the lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025. On the other hand we had a lot of rain and heavy overcast but not much […]
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.
The first full moon that comes after the spring equinox, which marks the change from astronomical winter to astronomical spring is often called the sap moon (the sap is running) or the worm moon (worms appear in the soil). Also called the Lenten moon, since the Christian Easter is always the first Sunday following the […]
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 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. […]