At times when I’m not as active taking pictures, I get the opportunity to look back at the archives in search of good candidates for a blog posting. Today I found a favourite from the autumn of 2009, a picture of Mount Rundle viewed across the Vermilion Lakes near Banff. This picture has a number…
Category: Skies and Clouds
Lunar Eclipse
I had a late night yesterday, staying up to observe and photograph the lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is between the sun and the moon, blocking sunlight from reaching and being reflected by the moon. Lunar eclipses occur fairly often, but this one was unique in that it was the first…
Winter Sunset
Sometimes you just get lucky! It was a late January afternoon 2009. I was reading upstairs in Canmore, when I happened to glance out the window. I was struck by the pinkish glow to the sky and realized there was a picture to be taken. I got quite a few but one in particular stood out from…
Lake Washademoak Sunset
Lake Washademoak is located in central New Brunswick, southeast of Fredericton. It forms part of the Saint John River system and is a popular area for boaters and cottagers. We recently visited Paul and Micheline Ingalls at their summer home on the lake and had the opportunity to experience a pretty Washademoak sunset. The scene…
Stunning Skies
Today we traveled from Grand Falls, New Brunswick to Halifax, Nova Scotia as part of this year’s trip to Atlantic Canada. Along the way, we stopped at Aulac, NB and ventured out to the Fort Beausejour site in search of a good location to photograph the Tantramar Marsh. I was less than successful, not being…