One of the highlights of our recent holiday in Newfoundland was Gros Morne National Park, a world heritage site located on the west coast. The park takes its name from Newfoundland’s second-highest mountain peak (at 806 m or 2,644 ft) located within the park. Its French meaning is “large mountain standing alone,” or more literally “great sombre.” The…
Category: Night
Happy New Year 2017
It’s 2017! I hope you enjoyed New Year’s Eve as much as we did and when you awoke this morning, I hope you still feel the same way! We spent a quiet evening at home with our daughter Jaime, son-in-law Andrew and our two grandsons, Fynn and Wyatt. The boys are still a little young to…
Cave Creek, AZ
Cave Creek is a small town in Arizona, located in the Sonoran Desert, on the northern border of Scottsdale, 27 miles (45 km) northeast of Phoenix. It’s proud of it’s western heritage and has a very “old west” look and character. Cave Creek, established as a gold mining town and stopping point for the U.S. Cavalry…
Milky Way Over the Three Sisters
Earlier today (4:00 am) I ventured out into the cold (3 deg C or 38 deg F) with two friends from the Canmore Camera Club. They had determined that the Milky Way would be very visible at this hour, close to Canmore’s landmark peaks, the Three Sisters. We set up in a good location and…
Photographing the Moon
Photographing the moon, particularly the full moon can be difficult. The challenge arises from the moon’s brilliance. To capture the moon without over-exposing (and washing it out), the shutter speed must be short (<1/100 sec). At high speed, in low light or darkness, it’s not possible to capture anything but the moon. The remainder of the…