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A New Day Awaits
Morning fog in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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Blood Moon Setting, Toronto
Toronto awoke to a total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026. This composite image captured the eclipse sequence unfolding behind the Toronto skyline, from the start of the partial eclipse at 4:50 am, till the eclipsed moon went behind the skyline at 6:14 am. Totality started at 6:04 am, just as the sky gradually brightened from the morning twilight. All the images in this sequence and the Toronto skyline were captured at 3-minute intervals from the same camera angle from Polson Pier.
A total lunar eclipse is also called a “blood moon”. The eclipsed moon is not totally dark – sunlight can reach the moon via refraction by Earth’s atmosphere. The reddish colour of the moon is due to the blue part of sunlight being scattered by Earth’s atmosphere, leaving primarily red and orange light reaching the moon – the exact same reason why the sun is orange during sunset.
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Blook Moon over Toronto, 2026
Toronto awoke to a total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026. This image was captured from Polson Pier at 6:06 am, two minutes after the start of totality, just as the sky gradually brightened from the morning twilight.
A total lunar eclipse is also called a “blood moon”. The eclipsed moon is not totally dark – sunlight can reach the moon via refraction by Earth’s atmosphere. The reddish colour of the moon is due to the blue part of sunlight being scattered by Earth’s atmosphere, leaving primarily red and orange light reaching the moon – the exact same reason why the sun is orange during sunset.
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Full Moon Eclipsed, Milky Way Revealed
During full moon, the bright moonlight washes out most of the interesting features in the night sky. What happens if the moonlight is blocked out?
This image, taken just after midnight of August 28, 2026 during a deep partial lunar eclipse, answers the question. Even when 96.3% of the lunar surface was in Earth’s shadow, the moon, the bright orb on the left, is still the brightest object in the sky. However, with the moonlight greatly dimmed, the Milky Way is now clearly visible, while airglow painted the sky green and red, Cities across Lake Ontario (Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls) gave the horizon its golden glow.
This image is a three-panel mosaic shot with my 14mm ultra-wide angle lens, covering from the horizon to the zenith and beyond.
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Misty Dawn in Algonquin
Morning fog in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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Sunrise, Lake of Two Rivers
Morning fog in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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Zodiacal Light over Icy Lake Huron
Zodiacal light, captured in March by the Lake Huron shore, when spring is around the corner and ice on the lake starts to retreat. The zodiacal light is the patch of light extending from the centre of the image to the top left, passing through Taurus, Aries and Pisces, three of the constellations on the zodiac.
Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust orbiting the sun. Imagine the ecliptic plane on which Earth (and to a good approximation, most planets) orbits the sun. On this same plane is the dust cloud, from Earth’s orbit to just beyond Mars, that gives us zodiacal light. There are various theories as to the origin of this dust, from debris left behind by comets, to dust whipped up from Mars.
At mid-latitudes, zodiacal light is best observed around the spring equinox looking west just after the end of dusk, or around the fall equinox looking east just before the start of dawn.
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The Streets of Lisbon #5
This image was selected to represent Canada in the Four Nations Photo Competition 2021.
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Home, Sweet Home
“Urban Colour” series.
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An Idyllic Retreat
“Urban Colour” series.
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Rouge
“Urban Colour” series.
This image was accepted at the 125th Toronto International Salon of Photography.
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Blue in the City
“Urban Colour” series.
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Dahlia Pink
Just playing with a gorgeous specimen of dahlia.
This image was accepted at the International Salon New York 2021
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Ornamental Grass
I strained and tip-toed, trying to get a good look through the viewfinder. My camera was set up really high on the tripod as I needed to have a clear view of my subject over bushes in the foreground. A passerby looked hard at the direction my camera was pointing at, trying to figure out what the crazy photographer was shooting … nothing, there’s nothing interesting there. Just a bunch of messy bushes and clumps of grass in the garden. These guys with big lenses are weird, he must have been thinking.
What caught my eyes was a cluster of ornamental grass in shades of silvery green. I loved how they grew out of the slope and leaned slightly. I loved the flow and the elegance of the blades. I loved how there’s order in chaos. Chaos really was the right word for it, as the background was … well, messy. Bright highlights, dark shadows, it’s got everything.
It took me a few iterations to transform the photograph into what I think captures the natural beauty. The high key look and the sketch treatment simplifies the complex scene, as is removing most of the colour, leaving just a few blades coloured with the palette of my choice.
