Tag: Weather

Sunset at Basalt Creek

Sunset on the Skeena

On Friday, February 3, 2012, I was driving to Prince Rupert, BC, to cover the No to Tankers rally the next day for GlobalBC News and Canadian Press  The drive (or train trip) along the lower Skeena is always magnificent, the mighty water has come through the mountains and now when the river widens. The […]

Sunset on Douglas Channel, Kitimat

Kitimat, BC is far enough north that in this time of year as we approach the solstice, the summer evenings are long, not the midnight sun of the arctic, but dusk continues for a couple of hours after the sun sets and the pre-dawn twilight comes after just a few hours of darkness. On Saturday […]

The best laid plans lead to the forest moon of Endor

Photography is often affected by the weather.  A change in the weather can mean as Robbie Burns wrote in 1785, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley,” or to quote a more contemporary author, some guy called Murphy, “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” So it was on Saturday night.  […]