Starfest 2014
It’s been 10 years since Kim & I last attended Starfest (near Mount Forest Ontario)… 2004. That was the year of a big storm microburst that destroyed out tent while…
Comet Hale Bopp 1997
From wikipedia: Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was…
Photo Flashback – more 1996
I had actually bypassed this on the interstate highway and had to backtrack a bit to find it. It was not far off, maybe 30 minutes or so. A small…
Photo flashback – 1996
In 1996, I was on the way back from Edmonton Alberta attending the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada General Assembly, and headed south through Calgary and into a small town…
Photo flashback – sunset in 1990
There is no end to great setups for sunset photography on the shores of Lake Ontario in Kingston. This is from the waterfront near the Kingston General Hospital, exposed to…
Venus Jupiter Conjunction
This morning, Monday 2014 August 18th, there was a conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter. As they rose over our eastern horizon, they were less than 1/4 of a…
Photo Flashback – last of 1988
This is the last of the good shots from that same morning, out on the ice when Lake Ontario really froze over. The Wolfe Island ferry is in the distance…
Photo Flashback 1988 – redux
This is the same morning as the last sunrise shot shown, that of Queen’s Theological Hall before sunrise posted yesterday. What can I say? It was a great morning for…
photo flashback – 1988 sunrise
After a morning out on Lake Ontario Ice, imaging stars and landscape, on the way home the sunrise twilight lit up this scene very nicely. This is looking east over…
photo flashback – 1988 sunset over Lake Ontario
Another old slide digitized at 4800dpi with digital noise reduction turned on. A nice sunset with a few clouds along the horizon. The Lake is still frozen over and the…
Photo flashback – more 1987
It seems I did a lot of sunset photography in 1987. I think I was working in the photo retail area at the time and a lot of this may…
photo flashback 1987
Another keeper from the 35mm slide scanning project. This is a sunrise from January 1987. It is hard to remember but I think it was from a 3rd floor apartment…
digitizing 35mm slides
A new Epson V700 scanner became available to me and I thought it was high time to start digitizing a *very* large collection of 35mm slides that have been in…
Great tourism weekend
This past weekend was great for weather, with warm to hot temperatures and a good time to play tourist in the local area. Upper Canada Village: (wikipedia) endeavours to depict…
ottawa cfl stadium
Images above: ottawa cfl stadium north side bleachers, 5 yard line, ottawa cfl stadium south side bleachers We followed the Saskatchewan Roughriders to their first game at the new Ottawa…