


Grand Teton National Park – 2006

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

Airshow London 2022

Rocky Mountain National Park – June 2018

Airshow London 2021

Big Horn Mountains

2017 Total Solar Eclipse – 15 east of Douglas, Wyoming

What Flies By…

Air Show London’s Skydrive!
What a show!

Neowise
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.

A Gallery of Golfers
Had the opportunity to photograph during the pro am/practice round of the 2012 Canadian Open in Ancaster, Ontario. Lot of fun, and an interesting experience – it was my first PGA event!

Some July Lightning!

2012 Weather/Chase Season – Mid-March Lightning!
Got to test my new 35mm prime on the Canon 5D Mark II on a storm!

2012 Weather/Chase Season – Birds In Transit
Well preparations for this years chase expedition continue – the lens change-outs are almost complete (will discuss in further detail when everything is done/resolved), but here are some test shots to share…

From The Vault – 27 May 2001 – People Chaser Derecho Video!
Commentary adapted from the original SUMM.

The Meteorology behind the 24 August, 2011, SW Ontario Tornadic Event
The 24 August, 2011 event shared both similarities and differences with the 21 August, 2011 event.

The Meteorology behind the 21 August, 2011, Goderich, ON Tornado
image courtesy of Danica Harvey.
Pier 39 SeaLions Gone!
Wow!

The Wedding Gig
I have edited and posted most of the wedding set on YouTube to share with all y’all! Thanks so much to the band:

First Day in SFO
This takes things up to the sunset cruise.

Golden Gate Bridge Study
San Francisco was the first stop on the trip.

Medium-Ass Black Bear!
After hiking to see the Largest Tree On the Planet (pics to follow) in Sequoia National Park, we waited in a line of cars for a Pilot Car (kinda like Chasing, eh!). We noticed some deer off maybe 80 feet at roughly 2 o’clock (pics to follow).

My Beautiful Bride and our Great Friends!
Michelle and I and our wedding party – big thanks to Kelly Temple for the great wedding photography! Us:

Self Portrait: The 7th Green – Pebble Beach Golf Links
We are back!

2 June 2006 – Pikes Peak, CO
Images from my drive up to the summit of Pikes Peak, CO (all taken with a Canon 350D)!
Another Tribute to Al Moller
A few times in ones life one meets a person who can be described as a true guiding force. For me, Al Moller is one of those.