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Yellowstone National Park – 2006

Grand Teton National Park – 2006

Wind Cave National Park – Custer State Park – Wind River Range – 2006

Rocky Mountain National Park – June 2018

2017 Total Solar Eclipse – 15 east of Douglas, Wyoming

First two images from 18 July,2020 at London, Ontario. Remaining images from 24 July,2020 near Watford, Ontario. Unfortunately, the comet had faded noticeably from the 24th. Sequence is chronological, and I added a couple of artistic zoomed images of storage units on the nearby working farm (as well as a moon image). All single, images,

2020 Plane Spotting

Antonov 225 YYZ Arrival

2019 Airshows

2019 Plane Spotting

FIFI Visits London, Ontario

2018 Plane Spotting

2018 Airshows

17 June 2017 – S Ontario Chases

Got on three separate cells: Bow/line segment between London and Ilderton around 1:00 pm Shelf/wall cloud around 3:00 pm, North of Harrietsville, south of the 401 Broken line of cells coming in from L Huron in the early evening. a

Mt. Rushmore/Black Hills

11 September 2013 – London, Ontario Bow Echo Segment

High-based but photogenic Bow Echo segment.

Transit of Venus – 5 June, 2012

Next one won’t happen until 2117! The four dark smaller regions are sunspots.

Badlands National Park

Nice visit to a great Park in late May, 2006, up to and into the Golden Hour. All images taken with the Canon 350D and 18-55mm kit lens (yep!), and processed with Lightroom 6. Very pleased that I thought ahead and shot many scenes with panos in mind. Single images: Panos:

2016 Airshow London

Selected images from the 2016 London Airshow. Images were taken from a number of locations around the Airport with the Canon 6D and Tamron 150-600 mm lens.

Power BI Dashboard of Historical Daily High & Low Temp- Select North American Stations

Have released a Microsoft Power BI based interactive dashboard that supports interactive analyses of Historical Daily High & Low Temps for some select North American observation stations.

Tableau Visualization of SPC & EC Merged Historical Tornado Databases

Updated to a Tableau based interactive dashboard that now combines both the 1950-2015 US dataset from the Storm Prediction Center, and the 1980-2009 data set from Environment Canada!

Bryan Adams

Tour commemorating the Reckless album.

Aerosmith

Alice Cooper – Rock The Park

With encore special guests Peter Frampton, Brian Campbell of the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Stanley Cup (I had dropped back to my seat and was taking video, which I rarely do – full video to follow).

April Wine – Rock The Park

Set cut short by technical difficulties.

Lee Arron – Rock The Park

Metal, with a few jazz numbers thrown in for good measure.

Bachman – Cummings – Rock The Park

Lot’s of Guess Who and BTO hits!

Black Sabbath – London, Ontario

For some reason Ozzy kept saying ‘coo-coo’ to the crowd between songs. Oh wait, its Ozzy.

Jeff Beck & Eric Clapton – Toronto

Two legends at Air Canada Centre,

Boston – Rock The Park

Tom Scholtz is a genius!

Pat Benetar – Rock The Park

All the hits, but hard to photograph in the rain.

Bobby Blue Bland – London Bluesfest

Soul / R&B legend, July of 2004 – taken with a disposable film camera. One on my earliest concert images.

Bush – Rock The Park.

Popular 90’s band from England.

Cheap Trick – Rock The Park, London, Ontario

Rick Nielsen used what might have been close to a million dollars worth of vintage guitars during this set.

Guy Clark / Verlon Thompson

Legendary Texas singer/songwriter Guy Clark show from 2005. R.I P. Guy.

Tom Cochrane – Rock The Park

Life. Highway. You know the drill.

Robert Cray – Bluesfest, London, Ontario

Fantastic show!

Burton Cummings

Andy Curran of Coney Hatch

Bassist Curran is also General Manager Label Services/A&R at Anthem Records/ole Label Services. Rock industry big wig.

Def Leppard – London, Ontario

Great show, they can still bring it!

Deep Purple – Rock The Park, London, Ontario

With Steve Morse on guitar!

Rick Derringer – London Bluesfest

Rock and Roll. Hoochie Coo!

Rik Emmett – Rock The Park

Of Triumph!

Extreme

With guitar hot-shot Nino Bettencourt.

Peter Frampton – Rock The Park

Showed us the way!

Mark Farner – Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad

From two separate Rock The Park appearances.

Steve Hackett

Old Genesis chestnuts and solo material. Art-rock as high art.

Sammy Hagar & The Circle

Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony (i.e half of Van Hagar), Vic Johnson, and Jason Bonham.

Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas – Rock The Park

Cabo comes to London!

Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas – Toronto

Such a great band! Opening for Aerosmith at the Air Canada Centre.

Richie Havens – Bluesfest, London, Ontario

Woodstock icon!

Headpins

Super talanted hard-rock band from Vancouver. Darby Mills on vocals.

Jeff Healey, R.I.P – Balloonfest, London, Ontario

Last London gig, about nine months before his untimely passing.

Heart – Rock The Park

Great band live!

Helix

Home town rawk!

Honeymoon Suite – Rock The Park

Canadian 80’s hit-makers with some great guitar playing!

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Texas legend, in Toronto with his son Lucas on lead guitar.

John Hyatt

Legendary Americana songwriter!

Alan Jackson – London, Ontario

Great Traditional Country!

Colin James – London Bluesfest

One of my favorite Canadian Guitarists!

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Rock The Park

Road Warrior!

Jethro Tull – London, Ontario

Last London appearance for this great band. Unfortunately, they were very difficult to photograph with the point-and-shoot I was using back then.

Elton John – February 3rd, 2014 – Budweiser Gardens, London, Ontario

Journey

Great show!

BB King

The King.

KISS – Bayfest

Really only half of KISS.

Huey Lewis

Fun rock ‘n’ roll!!

Los Lobos – London Bluesfest

Such a fantastic, yet underrated band!

Lynyrd Skynryd – London, Ontario – 2010

Yes, it’s really only Gary Rossington left from the original (and at least it Ronnie Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny on vocals), but they still play well

Sir Paul…

Frank Marino – London Bluesfest

Another great guitarist!

Steve Miller Band

From the Bayfest and Rock The Park shows.

Alannah Myles – Rock The Park

Voice was as strong and passionate as on the original recordings.

Nazareth – Rock The Park

Scottish rock ‘n’ roll!

Night Ranger – Rock The Park

Testosterone!!

Ted Nugent – Rock The Park

From two London appearances.

Prism

Vancouver rockers with great songs and a lot of fun to photograph!

Brad Paisley – London. Ontario – 2013

The virtuoso guitarist from West Virginia included a credible instrumental verson of Van Halen’s ‘Hot For Teacher’ in the set.

Brad Paisley – London, Ontario – 2007

John Labatt Centre gig.

Tom Petty – London, Ontario

Was very excited to see Tom Petty for the very first time here in London Ontario – which was also his first visit to London ever!

REO Speedwagon – Rock The Park

A band that rocks a lot harder live than on record – great band!

Rolling Stones – 50 and Counting – Toronto June 6th, 2013

Well, in a nutshell, the Rolling Stones were a well oiled rock ‘n roll machine at this Toronto show.

The Romantics

From Detroit!

Rush – “SARS-stock”, Toronto, ON – July 30, 2003

Many Canadians consider this their “Woodstock”, not for cultural or generational change reasons – mostly from an endurance standpoint!

Rush – Clockwork Angles Tour – Two Perspectives

Was fortunate enough to see two shows on Rush’s Clockwork Angels tour!

Rush – Time Machine Tour – Bayfest

Large gallery of images from a magcial show!

Rush – R40

From the final two Toronto shows. The second show featured Ben Mink on ‘Losing it’!

Mitch Ryder – Rock The Park

Detroit legend!

Saga

Canadian Prog legends!

Scorpions – Bayfest

Great band live!!

Bob Seger

Images from both the London, Ontario and Detroit shows.

Billy Joe Shaver – Harbourfront

Legendary Texas singer/songwriter show from 2005. Taken with a point-and-shoot from that era.

Kenny Wayne Sheppard

With Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton (of Double Trouble and ARC Angels) on drums!

Kim Simmonds – Savoy Brown – London Bluesfest

British Blues/Rock legends!

Skid Row – Rock The Park, London, Ontario

Fun band to photograph!

Slash w. Myles Kennedy – Rock The Park, London, Ontario

From 2012.

The Smithereens

From Joisey!

Steel Panther

As the British say, rather naughty. But amazing musicians!!

Styx

Gowan on vocals.

Survivor

Eye of the tiger. So that’s what they look like.

Taylor Swift – London, Ontario

Opening for Brad Paisley at John Labatt Centre (her first Canadian show).

38 Special

Great 80’s Southern Rock!

George Thorogood & the Destroyers

With Texan Jim Shuler on Lead Guitar.

The Sweet – Rock The Park

Some genuine Spinal Tap moments during the set!

The Trews – Bayfest

Great band from Nova Scotia.

The Tragically Hip

Courage.

Toto

With guitar virtuoso Steve Lukather.

Pat Travers – Bluesfest, London, Ontario

Great evening of great guitars.

Trooper – Rock The Park

Vancouver hit-makers.

Ian Tyson – Aeolian Hall

Canadian Folk superstar!

Jimmie Vaughan with Lou Ann Barton

Love Jimmie Vaughan! A good Texan.

Van Halen – St Patrick’s Day in Toronto

Great to see the original Van Halen in Toronto!

Van Halen – 2015 Tour

From the London, Ontario and Toronto shows.

Whitesnake – Rock The Park

With the great Tommy Aldridge on drums!

David Wilcox – London Bluesfest

Great blend of Boogie, Delta Blues, and humor. Quite a photo subject too!

Winger

From New York City.

Edgar Winter – Kitchener Bluesfest

A few hours after seeing Johnny in tent at this event I saw Edgar in a different tent!

Johnny Winter – Kitchener Bluesfest

They put him in a tent? Really odd.

Steve Winwood – Rock The Park

Rock Royalty!

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – London, Ontario

From 2012. This was the most difficult time I have had shooting a concert – and I was front row, standing against the barrier at one side.

ZZ Top – London

The Reverend Billy F. Gibbons.

ZZ Top – Windsor, Ontario

Best show I’ve seen from the Lil’ Ol’ Band From Texas.

Texas Hill Country

Great drives!

Toronto (YYZ) Planespotting

From the Wendy’s on Airport Rd., on the Friday of a Toronto Airshow weekend. Hence the non-commercial traffic. All taken with the Canon 70-200 IS F4. I included some crop examples of the Harvards and the A380 to highlight the sharpness of the 70-200.

8 July 2016 – Lake Huron (Ontario), Bow Echo

Lake Huron shore, north of Grand Bend, Ontario. Excellent Ontario structure! Pano: Gallary

22 June 2016 – Manilus, Illinois Tornado

Excellent chase day!

14 June 2016 – E of Lubbock, Texas

What a chase!

13 June 2016 – W of Kim, Colorado

Left Goodland, Kansas at 9:00 am, as we got as far as about 20 -25 miles W of Kim, Colorado, but unfortunately were 15 minutes late and 15 miles short of the tornado. We did see a lot of scud, though. Hey, that’s chasing!

12 June 2016 – Chugwater, Wyoming Supercell

Surprise! Wasn’t safe to get the DSLR out where we stopped so these are from my cell phone.

11 June 2016 – Baker, Montana Tornado

Rather unusual storm in a number of ways!

Pre-Syzygy Perigee Harvest Moon and Fun With Iridescent Altocumulus – 27 September, 2015

Scouted out a nice high spot to catch the Harvest Moonise on the Perigee.

3 June, 2015 – E Wyoming

Doug and I started the day in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

2 June, 2015 – Nebraska Panhandle Chase

Good chase day in the Nebraska Panhandle!

1 June 2015 Rapid City, South Dakota Supercell

Started the day in Denver. Realized there wouldn’t be a lot of time to forecast, and would have to hit the road early!

30 May, 2015 – Arches National Park

A gallery of 258 images selected from the 2220 I took (many thanks to Doug Glennie for driving so I could go all paparazzi on the park!)

29 May, 2015 I-70 Westbound / Colorado Rockies Study

This series of images were created to simply have a good documentation of my first trip west out of Denver on I-70 to Grand Junction (my first trip through the Rockies was Pueblo – Montrose – Grand Junction).

28 May 2015 – Far NW Texas Panhandle

Doug and I started in Amarillo, with potential targets south near and south of Lubbock and further north in far W Kansas.

26 May 2015 Breckenridge, Texas Supercell

One of my favorite things to happen on a chase is to make a forecast, drive to the target area, and then observe the storm form. That’s what happened with teh chase on 26 May, 2015!

23 May, 2015 – SE Colorado

Doug and I started the day in Burlington, Colorado where the very nice Best Western was practically FULL of stormchasers.

St. Patrick’s Day Aurora

This was my first attempt at photographing the aurora borealis.

21 May 2014 SW Ontario Storms/Chase

This post covers a couple of events!

30 May 2012 – NW Texas Giant Hail Machine

Dodged a supercell producing giant hail SW of Childress, Texas.

29 May 2012 – Far NW Oklahoma Convection

Some vigorous updrafts.

28 May 2012 – Greensburg Kansas Well – Tornado Museum

Museum at the Well site commemorating the tornado that destroyed the town.

27 May 2012 – NC Kansas – SC Nebraska

Beautiful skyscapes!

25 May 2012 – Russell, KS Chase

Started the day in Lawrence, Kansas, after visiting with John’s 88-year-old father (who is a Professor Emeritus at KU, and was a field-leading radar researcher and engineer). Initially, Friday look like a down day, with no chasing anticipated even the day before.

25 May 2012 – More Russell, KS Images

Unusual rope-out!

24 May 2012 – Knuckles over Topeka

A few images taken while repositioning.

23 May 2012 – E Colorado Chase

Preliminary summary to get the images out there – will update with more details as time permits, Chased with John and Kathy Valequez / Linda Kitchen (the ORIGINAL Twister Sisters).

23 May 2012 – E Colorado

Nice supercell with great subtle colour and texture!

22 May 2012 – Far NE New Mexico / Texline, Texas

Nice little cell.

21 May 2012 – NW Texas Panhandle Chase

20 May, 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse

Schnebly Hill Road – Sedona, Arizona

Gotta love 2000 foot drop-offs!

Monument Valley

Don’t forget your mittens!

SW Colorado – SE Utah – Mexican Hat

Wonderful scenery and geology out in the middle of nowhere! Click for a 1800 pixel wide version of Raplee Ridge (known lcally as Raplee’s Anticline), part of the Monument Upwarp in southeastern Utah: Full Gallery of the region:

Goosenecks of the San Juan – Goosenecks State Park, Utah

Goosenecks State Park is one of the coolest places I have ever been!

13 June 2009 – Texas Panhandle Supercell

Supercell over Pantex!

12 June 2009 – E Colorado Supercell

Even more structure

11 June 2009 – Pueblo, CO – Lamar, CO

More Structure!

10 June Johnson City, KS – Liberal, KS Structure

Great structure day!

9 June 2009 – SE Kansas chase

A day with a lot of waiting around before weak storms got going.

7 June 2009 – SE Nebraska/NW Missouri Supercells

Good chase that culminated in some chase heavy chaser convergence.

6 June 2009 – Thedford, NE

Pretty convection over the Sandhills.

5 June, 2009 – Full Lifecycle, Goshen, Co., WY Tornadoes

Series of images from about ten minutes before the first brief tornado and then the complete life-cycle of the 25 minute second tornado.

4 June 2009 – Eastern Colorado Structure!

Fun Chase!

3 June, 2009 – Capulin Volcano/Raton Mesa Convection

From 2009:

2 June 2009 – Post, TX Shelf Cloud

Chased with John Moore.

2009 Chase Season – Some Additional Images

Wanted to share a few more of the 2009 Chase Season images – some offering slightly different interpretations of earlier scenes, and some ones I missed posting in the in field.

From The Vault – 31 May 1992 – Tornadogenesis Failure

As I referenced it in the the Al Moller tribute below here is a little more from that day.

From The Vault – 11 May 1992 – My First Tornado

Scanned in low res.

From The Vault – 22 May 1995 – N of Liberal, KS

Scanned slide from 22 May 1995

From The Vault – 1996 TX Panhandle Light Show

From a set of old lo-res slide scans I had done some years back. I should get some more done.

Lake Tahoe

It’s Tahoe, baby!

Yosemite – Extra Images

Can’t have too much!

Yosemite – Olmsted Point & Tuolumne Meadows

Simply wonderful!

Yosemite – Milky Way

Dodged bears to get these images (well stayed loud by singing, as problem bears in Yosemite are night bears).

Yosemite – Icons

They’re Icons for a reason!

Kings Canyon National Park

A majestic, yet underrated Park.

Sequoia National Park & Giant Forest

Love this Park!

Death Valley

Don’t forget to bring extra water!

Ubehebe Crater

Deep!

DVNP – The Racetrack

Like another planet.

Old Indians

The coolest bike!

Highway 46

California is empty!

Pacific Coast Highway and Big Sur

What a drive!

Monterey Bay – Extra Images

Whale Watching was cancelled due to high waves.

Monterey Bay Aquarium & Cannery Row

Lucky to have been there when they had a Great White!

17 Mile Drive

October waves on the Monterey peninsula.

Pebble Beach Golf Links

Amazing course!

Yountville & Napa Valley

From 2009,

San Francisco DayTour

From 2009!

Very Large Array!

From 2009.

Eastern Arizona – Salt River Canyon

From 2009, from Phoenix to up the Mogollon Rim.

26 May 1994 – Fort Stockton, TX, Supercell Video

Digitized the low-8 video tapes and edited down to the chase highlights.

B&W Studies

Joining in the current black and white processing craze!

Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunset – London, Ontario – 23 October 2014

September Whale’s Mouth – London, Ontario – 5 September, 2014

Probably the last good chance for decent storms in 2014.

Lens Test – Tamron 150-600 mm – Ontario Summer Fun

Another test for the new Tamron 150-600 mm on the 6D.

Lens Test – Tamron 150-600 mm – Just another Moon

So this is from the night before the August 2014 ‘Supermoon’, from London, Ontario, around 1:00 am EDT (click for larger image): Cropped from handheld image, F8, ISO 3200, 1/4000th using the Canon 6D with the Tamron 150-600 at 600mm. Post in Lightroom 4.3.

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