JULIETTE & TOFINO

TOFINO GLORY!

Crab Dock Pano

Tofino at Sunset

This is Tofino in all it’s glory!
The last (visible) wavelength to be seen at sunset is Violet. It’s the most delicate colour as well. The contrast is always weak with it,because the sun has almost completely set. Not much intensity. But the softness is incredible!

Tofino with Full Moon Rising

This is one of the reasons why I waited so long to go on this aerial shoot. I wanted to shoot Tofino with the full moon rising over it. I wanted to use my big lens to compress the scene and as a result get the moon huge over top of Tofino!
Unfortunately, the best laid plans often times go a skew !
The moon was rising too far north! Because Tofino looks to the North,the only angle you can shoot it with the moon behind it ,is from the NW looking to the SE. The moon was way too far north and after realizing this, I was very disappointed.
I will have to go up again in the summer. The moon will be at it’s most southerly point on or around the summer solstice of June 21 st. As it stands right now the only two dates I can get the shot of the full moon over Tofino is May25th/10 and June 24th/10! (the best times to do something like this ,seems to be acouple of days before the Full Moon date)
I can’t have any clouds on either the eastern or western horizon’s on those two dates.
I also will have to be about 10-15 miles away from Tofino to the NW looking back to the SE. I don’t even know if I can line the two up? A horizontal shot with the full moon on the far left and Tofino to the right would be what I would settle for.
We’ll see.
Stay tuned!

Tonquin Beach

This shot is looking NE and shows Tofino’s local beach,Tonquin. It can be walked to easily and is a great spot to watch the sun go down. Wickaninnish Island lies to the west and unfortunately cuts off the sun right before it sets,from this location.

Atleo Puts Plane Into The Harbour

I came by when Jay was putting his plane back into the ocean after being serviced.
Thats Jay in the boat waving.

Strawberry Island Moonrise

Caught the moon coming up ,just when the sun was going down.
The earths atmosphere is distorting the moon’s image.The light coming into our atmosphere is slowed down and slightly bent( refraction)

Lovekin Point

I always like this scene,but just haven’t figured out how to take advantage of it yet.
It has potential!

Canada Day Firework Celebrations

I had to boost the ISO to the max for this shot.
I use a 5D and the noise level is low on these guys.