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Last night's Geomagnetic Storm lit up the sky over Howe Sound and Squamish. It's been forever since I last photographed the Aurora Borealis so I played it safe and drove away from the city for the sure shot. The stars had finally aligned with the solar forecast and our local weather forecast. Southbound traffic was constant on the Sea to Sky Highway as I made my way north to Porteau Cove Marine Park. I arrived just after 9:30pm and it looked like I had missed the show. The light was fading away. After an hour or so, it gradually built back up and then BOOM as if someone flicked on the light switch. Photographers and spectators started clapping and cheering. That was a first. I caught this shot at the peak. Captured at Porteau Cove Provincial Park, Squamish-Lillooet D, 45 mins north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ October 11, 2021 💚
Is this photo too dark? Curious.
It's way too dark on my phone.
indows in the West End reflect golden hour as blue hour falls on snow capped Mount Seymour in North Vancouver. Looking across English Bay to the north end of Kitsilano Beach at Kits Point then over to the shores of Sunset Beach and the Seawall along Beach Avenue at Cardero Street. Captured from Kitsilano, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada ~ November 30, 2020 🗻💙
Can you spot the giant blue heron at the Sunset Beach Park? It's painted on the Electric Vehicle Charging Station right next to the 9m (30ft) tall white 4G LTE Cell Tower (eNB ID 127857 Bands 2, 4, 5, 7 ~ www.cellmapper.net) 📲⚡🔌🚙
The Full Snow Moon rises from behind Eagle Mountain and high above Buntzen Bay on the Indian Arm. The setting sun paints the West End gold and reflects off English Bay. A beautiful day along the Seawall at the English Bay Bathhouse and Inukshuk. I think this is the first time since August 15, 2019 (6mo) that the sky has been clear enough to view the full moon. Captured this evening from the Point Grey Foreshore in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ February 8, 2020 🌝
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Super Moon from Boundary Bay, BC, looking toward Mount Baker glowing at Sunset.
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The condos along Beach Avenue get a spectacular view of Saturday's setting sun. The Seawall at Sunset Beach winds around the shoreline to the famous Inukshuk at English Bay Beach. Stanley Park beyond with West Vancouver and Cypress Mountain in the distance. Captured without a direct view of the sun from the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ April 18, 2020 🌅
The sweet smell of spring fills the air in Vancouver. I love this time of year when new growth makes the city come alive with brilliant colours. In the distance, the air traffic control tower Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island in Richmond, BC. Captured from South Vancouver at Blenheim Street and SW Marine Drive in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ April 2, 2020 🌸🌸
Shot almost into the sun using a polarizer - I could see the cool clouds when composing it, but couldn't quite see all the crazy rays surrounding this great iron sculpture due to the extreme brightness. No artificial sun rays were added in post. Post processing is Silver FX.
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I've been wanting to take a photo like that for a while. For years, I had seen those foggy photos of Vancouver, without even having an opportunity to get out there and take it when the moment was right. I wouldn't say the moment was perfect when I was there, as the fog was pretty thin and only covered parts of the landscape well enough and only for very short amounts of time. But I'm happy with that one shot I got.
I have to confess, it is heavily processed. I used 8 shots to reduce the noise, and the stars come from a stock image with open source license (very heavily modified). I really wanted to capture them myself, using the same focal length I used for the landscape (135mm) and pointing the camera towards the same direction as the shot was taken to make it "astronomically accurate". But I don't foresee any time soon when I'll be able to. The conditions probably won't be right for a little while, and my schedule is too busy for me to go out at night again for a long time. I wish I had more time to shoot.
As for those who might worry that the photo is a composite, I want to tell you that I wanted to create an image, above anything else. Yes, that night, I could see the stars. But I didn't have enough space in my bag to bring my tracker. So while the exact image is not 100% accurate to what I saw on that night, it's the general idea that matters to me and I want to be open about it. My intention is not to deceive anyone.
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Yesterday's view of North Vancouver and snow on top of one of our north shore mountains. The three summits you see here are Mount Seymour, Tim Jones Peak (2nd Pump) and Pump Peak. Harbour Air prepares for take-off from Coal Harbour. Captured from Canada Place, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada ~ November 13, 2020 🗻
The middle peak is named after a local hero, Tim Jones, who led North Shore Rescue (NSR) and helped rescue over 1,600 people from danger. Tim worked as an advanced life support paramedic and as Paramedic in Charge for the B.C. Ambulance Service in North Vancouver, along with volunteer leadership of North Shore Rescue 🙏💙
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It's 8:08pm and someone has fallen asleep in the clock tower at the Vancouver Block building. I went a whole 6 months forgetting to change the clock on my camera. The time is correct now 😂 Looking northeast up Granville Street from Nelson Street. Captured tonight in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ March 12, 2020 😴💤
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The Super Pink Moon rises over Mount Baker and a historic net loft that sits on wood pilings over the Steveston Channel (South Arm of the Fraser River). This is the first of two supermoons this year, the second one on May 26 which will also be a blood moon (total lunar eclipse) Supermoons, on average, are visually about 7% bigger and about 15% brighter than a typical full Moon. This is because the moon’s orbit is closest to the earth.
The Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site has buildings that date back to 1885 when this area was booming with canneries. The roof touched by the moon, is the Phoenix Seine Net Loft. It’s older ‘twin’ building, the Phoenix Gill Net Loft (not pictured), is in the process of being restored/rebuilt and is currently dismantled. The Phoenix Cannery was Richmond’s first cannery.
The bright orange/red smoke stack belongs to the SS Master which is last wooden-hulled and steam-powered tug boat still in existence in B.C. (and likely Canada) Built in 1922 by Arthur Moscrop at the Beach Avenue Shipyard in False Creek. Seaspan just finished restoring this 85-foot long, 225 tons tug just in time for it’s 100 year birthday. The black diamonds on it’s smoke stack represent the towing of coal barges from Vancouver Island to Coal Harbour.
Oddly enough, the clouds around Mt. Baker appear to be part of the mountain (or vice-versa)
Captured in the sleepy little fishing village of Storybrooke (aka Steveston) just south of Vancouver in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada ~ April 26, 2021
A night at Wapta Falls camping out beside the river. Taken back on June 16th, a new moon night. But the night skies didn't gets dark until half past midnight. And it was getting cloudy afterwards... NOt much more chance for more night shoot... This one taken around midnight with a little bit light left over from the northwest direction! Hope you like it!
Have a great day/night!
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Friday night's sunset from Pacific Spirit Regional Park at UBC. Looking over the Salish Sea to the sun setting over beautiful Vancouver Island. Over Nanoose Bay, Mt. Arrowsmith, Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park, Port Alberni, Sproat Lake and beyond to Flores Island (north of Tofino) and the Pacific Ocean. Captured from a bluff at UBC in Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ March 20, 2020 🌅
KĀKOU: Kākou is one of the 19 Values of Aloha which means "We are in this together."
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Saturday night's spectacular moonrise over Vancouver Harbour. Traffic on the Lions Gate Bridge is treated to a glimpse of this year's Full Buck Moon. I watched it rise from the horizon while sitting on the beach listening to the waves roll in. Serenity Now! Is it just me or does anyone else get reenergized from the ocean?
Skimming over the Burrard Inlet, under the Lions Gate Bridge, through the First Narrows to the lighthouse at Brockton Point in Stanley Park, to the container terminal at the Port of Vancouver and beyond to Metrotown skyscrapers in Burnaby. Single shot captured from John Lawson Park in Ambleside, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ July 4, 2020 🌝
“Traditionally, the full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon because a buck’s antlers are in full growth mode at this time. This full Moon was also known as the Thunder Moon because thunderstorms are so frequent during this month.” ~ www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-july
Tonight's Full Super Worm Moon over North Vancouver. Looking across Burrard Inlet to Lower Lonsdale with Lonsdale Quay and The Shipyards viewable past a bulk carrier named Pacific Seagull. The supermoon creeps out from behind Eagle Mountain and into some clouds creating a fiery glow. Captured at blue hour from the Stanley Park Seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ March 9, 2020 🌚
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It is a spectacular sight when Hundreds of Bald Eagles migrate to Boundary Bay in the winter. These were taken this evening.
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Winter has arrived on the top half of our local mountains while the rain continues to keep our city clean and green. Looking over English Bay to the West End of Vancouver, from the edge of Stanley Park to the English Bay Bathhouse and Inukshuk at English Bay Beach. In the distance, the Lions Gate Bridge peeks out from the tree tops with snowcapped Crown Mountain and Grouse Mountain Resort on Mt. Fromme. Captured from Hadden Park in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ January 5, 2020 ❄
A Squamish Nation totem pole welcomes all with open arms. This was hand carved from an old growth cedar log picked from the enchanted forest of Hollyburn Mountain. It faces southwest to the outer section of the Burrard Inlet and English Bay. Looking over the mouth of the First Narrows to Stanley Park and Vancouver's famous sea stack Slhx̱i7lsh, a.k.a. Siwash Rock. Up above on the cliff is a lookout which was the site of "Fort Siwash" where an artillery battery was mounted during the First World War. Captured at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ January 23, 2022 🌲☁️
With open arms to all who pass our shores, this Welcoming Figure was raised at the first K'aya'chtn (gathering of ocean canoes). The Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) dedicated the figure to the citizens of West Vancouver on July 25, 2001, with this prayer on the plaque....
"Welcome/Guardian Woman in gratitude to all our Ta7as/Grandmothers.
For all the teachings of our lands, history, of who we are.
For all the teaching in the ways we take care of one another as:
elders, parents, brothers, sisters and cousins, our children, the future generations.
For all the teachings in the ways we share the wealth of the land, the seas and the air."
Carved by Sekwim Siyam Sintl', Stan Joseph Jr., assisted by Wesley Nahanee and William Nahanee.