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Sandstone Shore
A section of the sandstone shoreline at the Pictured Rock National Lakeshore in Lake Superior. Lighting was lovely this day with the sun making occasional appearances behind dramatic clouds. A gentle wave made a splash, adding some extra texture to the intricate layers of sandstone.
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Ebb and Flow
A study of light and patterns where the Great Lakes meet the shore.
It was a calm day with gentle waves lapping on the shore. The air was fresh from the earlier rain. As the sun made occasional appearances through the mostly cloudy sky, the receding water line turned into a golden ribbon with ephemeral form. An instant of the scene now lives on photographic paper, but that dream-like summer day will live in my mind for years to come.
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Early Bird
The lighthouse at Port Dover, Ontario basked in the warm morning sun, as a seagull flew by.
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Autumn Glory
Fall colours revealed themselves as the morning fog lifted around Rabbit Blanket Lake in Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario.
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Beaver Dam Sunset
Sunset by Georgian Bay, Ontario.
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Icy Vortex
The sound of crunching ice told me something interesting was happening. On this chilly January day, the flow of the Nith River had sent the floating ice into a swirl. I marveled at the delicate conditions – the flow of the river, the shape of the bend, the cold temperature that partly froze the river – all coming together to create this phenomena. The icy might have been swirling around for minutes or hours, but I was lucky to be at the right place at the right time to witness this. A few minutes after taking this shot, extra ice came down the river, and completely jammed everything up.
This image won 2nd place in the Overzealous Fine Art Exhibition 2020, Photography, Film and Digital category.
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Thin Ice Mosaic
A thin sheet of ice formed over the lake the night before as the temperature dipped to -12 degrees Celsius. As it warmed up the next day, the ice broke up into thousands of pieces, bobbing gently in the waves and grinding past each other as they were carried by the current. The blue hue from the late afternoon overcast sky makes the scene extra icy.
I used a long telephoto lens to isolate areas of interest. The possibilities were endless, with every piece of ice having a unique shape, and reflecting light a little differently. Out of the series I like this one the most, with the brighter pieces of ice forming subtle diagonal patterns.
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Tiffany Creek
Tiffany Creek near Hamilton, Ontario.
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Tiffany Falls
Tiffany Falls near Hamilton, Ontario.
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Comet C/2023 A3 Meets Milky Way
A cosmic encounter of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and the Milky Way. Of course, this is true only from the perspective of Earth. The Milky Way is a vast galaxy of almost 100,000 light years across, while the comet was in the inner solar system and its light reached Earth in a matter of minutes.
This image, a stack of 9 individual exposures, was taken on October 24, 2024 by the Lake Huron shore in southern Ontario, 75 minutes after sunset. During this period called the astronomical twilight, stars and the Milky Way appear. The afterglow to the west is very dim to the naked eyes, but on long exposure it is a vibrant yellow and orange, turning into deep blue as one looks up.
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Comet over Moonlit Farmscape
This image of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was taken on October 16, 2024 in Perth County, southern Ontario. The farmscape was brightly lit by the almost full moon. The image is a stack of 32 individual exposures.
Comets are “dirty ice balls” made up of ice, dust, and various organic compounds. As a comet approaches the sun, the ice sublimes, and the dust is pushed away by the solar wind, creating the dust tail which always points away from the sun.
In this image, an “anti-tail” could also be seen pointing in the opposite direction. The anti-tail came from dust left along the orbit of the comet, which became visible as Earth crossed the comet’s orbital plane.
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in Twilight
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was the brightest comet visible in the northern hemisphere since 1997. The comet reached perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on September 27, 2024. By mid-October, the comet emerged from the glare of the sun, bright enough to be visible to the unaided eyes after sunset, and spotting a long dust tail.
This image was taken on October 17, 2024 in Perth County, southern Ontario, 70 minutes after sunset. 34 exposures were stacked for noise reduction in creating the final image. The dust tail measured approximately 20 degrees in this image. An “anti-tail”, formed by comet dust left along the orbit of the comet, could also be seen pointing in the opposite direction.
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Good Morning, Neowise
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise was discovered on March 23, 2020 on its way towards the inner solar system. It emerged from perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on July 3 as the brightest comet visible from the northern hemisphere in 23 years, and was visible to the naked eye through the month of July 2020.
This image was taken on July 10, 2020. Neowise was a bright magnitude 2 comet at the time with a beautiful long tail. It had no problem outshining the early morning twilight and the 75% moon, which provided the warm illumination for the farmscape. Neowise is now on its way out of the solar system and will not return for another 7000 years.
Twenty one individual exposures were stacked to create this noise-free image.
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The Great Northern Lights Show, 2024
The aurora activities on May 10-11, 2024, was truly a great northern lights show. A series of violent explosions of a sun spot a few days earlier created the ideal condition for a Kp 8-9 storm (9 being the highest on the Kp scale) that lasted over 24 hours. Millions of people around the globe, including tropical areas like Puerto Rico and Africa, were able to see the aurora with unaided eyes. This image was taken on Pelee Island, the southernmost inhabited land in Canada. Even at such southerly latitude (42 degrees), aurora filled the sky.
