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Aurora Borealis Outside Amos, Quebec April 2, 2022
The 25th Solar Cycle began in late 2019/early 2020 and the solar activity is increasing from its 11-year minimum towards a maximum around 2024 to 2025. The past couple months have had several active nights with CMEs and solar storms, … Continue reading
Northern Impressions 2.0 Entries
The Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre had a call-out for a juried exhibit title Northern Impressions2.0, which was to have been shown in May of 2020. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic, the deadline and show date kept getting pushed back … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits
Tagged 2020, Acrylic, Exhibit Piece, January 2021, Pandemic, Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre
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“Brightening Up the Night – Iroquois Falls” – Watercolour Selected for the 63rd Annual NOAA Juried Exhibition
From “In Real Life” to Artwork (Brightening Up The Night – Iroquois Falls, watercolour on 300-lb cold press paper. Approximately 19″ H X 28″ W, without frame.) Back in December of 2017, I drove out to Iroquois Falls one evening … Continue reading
“Sunlit Memories…”: A Process Explained
Tonight (December 05, 2019) was the opening of the Porcupine Art Club‘s themed show “Sunlight and Shadows”, which is on display at the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre for the duration of December. I have been member of the club … Continue reading
Three Night Sky Scenes at Grundy Lake Provincial Park: June 30/July 01, 2019.
During the Canada Day long weekend, the Sudbury Astronomy Club hosted their New Moon Star Party in Grundy Lake Provincial Park near Britt, Ontario. The evening of June 30/July 01 was clear, although heavy with dew. I took a few … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Aurora Borealis, Night Photography, Night Sky, Northern Ontario, Photography, Summer
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Some Views of the Total Lunar Eclipse with Landmarks on January 20-21, 2019
Timmins was in the path of the Total Lunar Eclipse of January 21-22, 2019. This was the first total lunar eclipse visible since September 27/28, 2015. (There was one on January 31, 2018, but it was overcast and snowing here.) … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, January, Lunar Eclipse, Photography, Timmins, Winter
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Experiments in Collagraphy
The other day, Porcupine Art Club Director and fellow artist Catherine Cribbs, held an informal workshop with some club members on making collagraph plates for printing. (Catherine is also avid print-maker – among her various other media she works in … Continue reading
Posted in Technique Experiments
Tagged 2018, August, Collagraphy, Experiment, Porcupine Art Club, Printmaking
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A View Inside SNOLAB (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory)
In early May of 2018, I applied to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory`s first-ever Physics Photowalk Tour to be held in June. The physics photowalk is a worldwide event in which various facilities, such as CERN and Fermilab, open their doors … Continue reading
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Tagged Lively, Neutrinos, Photography, Physics, PhysicsPhotowalk2018, SNOLAB, Sudbury
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Aurora Borealis May 07, 2018
The solar activity was elevated starting on May 05th to around May 08, 2018. This photograph was taken around 1:00 a.m. on Monday May 07th, 2018 in Dana-Jowsey Lakes Provincial Park, approximately 30km west of Timmins. There were some clouds … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, Aurora Borealis, May, Night Photography, Night Sky, Photography, Timmins
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Miniature Robin’s Nest in Clay
This is a free-from, hand-built stoneware piece I made in Linda Guiho’s pottery studio on January 30, 2018. The scene is a robin on the edge of her nest with one egg and a hatchling (not seen from this angle), … Continue reading
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