Eye Love Montreal

Nicolaus Copernicus With Jupiter & Venus & Uranus Wednesday January 18 2011

2012-01-18T21:10:00.003-08:00

Jupiter and Venus hover on either side of the bronze statue of Nicolaus Copernicus aka Mikołaj Kopernik that sits outside the now abandoned Dow Planetarium in downtown Montreal, while Uranus hovers above his outstretched hand. It seems that Copernicus has lost his compass and armillary sphere. . .

Port De Montreal Panoramic Photographs Shot Using The Sweep Panorama™ Mode Of A Sony Alpha A35 Digital SLT Camera

2012-01-18T06:01:00.000-08:00

Habitat 67 with two Canada Steamship Lines "Lakers" parked for the winter. Viewed from a hangar to the east of the skating rink in the Old Port. This Sweep Panorama™ panoramic photograph was shot hand-held using a Sony Alpha A35 with a Minolta Maxxum 100-400mm f4.5-6.7 APO zoom lens set at approximately 200mm if I remember correctly. All panoramic photos were uploaded to this blog at 25% of the full resolution. Click on the images on this page to see the much larger 25% resolution images.

Habitat 67 with two Canada Steamship Lines "Lakers" parked for the winter. Viewed from the west in the Vieux Port de Montreal. This Sweep Panorama™ panoramic photograph was shot hand-held using a Sony Alpha A35 with a Minolta Maxxum 100-400mm f4.5-6.7 APO zoom lens set at approximately 100mm.

Two parked Lakers in the Vieux Port de Montreal. This Sweep Panorama™ mode panoramic photograph was shot hand-held with a Sony Alpha A35 using an 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Sony zoom lens set at 18mm.

Remembrance Day Ceremony 11.11.11 McGill University Campus Montreal

2011-11-11T11:01:00.000-08:00

We stand on guard for thee. . .

Artillery Salute

Laying Wreaths at the Cenotaph

Adam & Zoé Displaying Their Remembrance Day Poppy Flag

Respect & Liberté

Autumnal Equinox Sunrise Montréal Friday September 23 2011

2011-09-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

The top of the rising sun becomes visible above a low bank of clouds

The full disk of the rising sun emerges above the low bank of clouds centered between the two pylons of the Concord Bridge
Why does 'The Lord Of The Rings' film version
of 'The Eye Of Sauron' come to mind here?
A shimmering reflection of the autumnal equinox sunrise creates a golden pathway on the waters of the St. Lawrence river
The rising sun hovers above the Alexander Caldwell sculpture 'Man'

Summer Solstice Sunrise Montreal June 21 2011

2011-06-24T06:07:00.000-07:00

These two photographs were taken on a 36 exposure roll of Fujicolor Superia Reala color negative film using a Tamron SP 300mm f/5.6 fixed focal length telephoto lens and a Nikon TC-300 2X teleconverter attached to my Nikon F90x 35mm SLR.

2011 Summer Solstice Sunrise Test Shots - All Photos Were Shot At Dawn On Monday June 20

2011-06-21T08:15:00.000-07:00

The sun peeks over the horizon between the tents of the

Cirque du Soleil and the Biosphere on Ile Ste. Helene

The sun is like the yolk of a cosmic egg within the dome

of the Biosphere, formerly the U.S. pavillion of Expo 67.

The sun hovers over the Biosphere behind a thin band of

clouds which recalls the ancient Egyptian winged sun symbol.

A bird appropriately flys just below the disk of the sun.

The long "rays" of the sun are just an optical effect, i.e. a rather interesting form of lens flare that my Pentax SMC FA 80-320mm f/4.5-5.6 AF zoom lens displays when shooting directly into the sun. These long "rays" recall the long rayed sun symbol of the heretical Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten aka Amenhotep IV father of Tutankhamun.

All of these photographs were taken with my well used Pentax K-x DSLR and the aforementioned Pentax 80-320mm AF zoom lens. I shot the actual summer solstice sunrise today using a 36 exposure roll of Fujicolor Superia Reala color negative film in my Nikon F90x 35mm SLR which was attached to a Tamron SP 300mm f/5.6 telephoto lens and a Nikon TC-300 2X Teleconverter.

Hopefully the results will be somewhat better than these test shots.

Total Lunar Eclipse Wednesday February 20 2008

2008-02-20T19:44:00.001-08:00

Creature Live At M For Montreal

2007-10-19T19:50:00.000-07:00

Cowbella Tickles The Ivories

More Cowbella. . .

Kim Ho In Action

The Mysterious Bass Player. . .

Gangsta Kim?

Cowbella Saying No To Bridget Bardot? ;-)

M For Montreal 2007

2007-10-19T17:44:00.000-07:00

Torngat

Bloodshot Bill Rocks Out Rockabilly Mayhem

The Breastfeeders

Hot Springs

Karkwa

The Stills

Venus In The Arms Of The Moon. . .

2007-05-19T20:01:00.000-07:00

Venus was one degree from the moon tonight. . .

Kid Metropolis Backing Creature At The Main Hall

2007-02-06T08:08:00.000-08:00

These may well be the last photos of Kid Metropolis using these instruments. According to this post on their MySpace blog their van was broken into in the "secure" basement parking lot of the hotel they were staying at and all of their equipment and merchandise was stolen. I am hoping that these photos will help lead to the recovery of some or all of the stolen instruments and equipment.

Creature Live At The Main Hall

2007-02-03T11:48:00.000-08:00

Mary Hails Hale-Bopp. . .

2007-01-15T22:13:00.000-08:00

Well I may have missed comet McNaught but I did get these nice shots of comet Hale-Bopp apparently being hailed by the gigantic statue of the virgin Mary that graces Notre-Dame de Bonsecours church in Old Montreal a while back. . .

Alexander Calder Sculpture 'Man'

2007-01-14T17:12:00.000-08:00

Dark Grafitti

2006-04-08T16:50:00.000-07:00

The Conscience of The Main?

2006-04-08T16:45:00.000-07:00

Signs of Spring 2 - Leaf of Grass

2006-04-08T16:42:00.000-07:00

Signs Of Spring 1

2006-04-08T16:37:00.000-07:00

Eye In The Snow. . .

2006-03-03T04:24:00.000-08:00

I was walking along St. Antoine street several weeks ago when I saw this banner that had

obviously been placed in an empty Montreal parking lot by some environmentalists.

The field of freshly fallen snow was too much for me to resist so I spent a few minutes

creating this large geoglyph of a "radiant divine eye" in the snow to complement

the environmentalist's banner that suggests that "Mother Earth" is watching us. . .

Iced Over Jesus - A Statue of Jesus Is Covered In Ice During The Ice Storm Of 1998

2006-03-03T04:18:00.000-08:00

What We Do For The Homeless. . .

2006-03-03T04:12:00.000-08:00

World Day of Conscience March 29, 2006

2006-03-03T03:58:00.000-08:00

Charest Hilton? The cold hard facts of Montreal homeless sleeping on cold hard METRO station floors. . .

2006-03-03T03:51:00.001-08:00

2006-03-03T03:38:00.000-08:00

2006-02-20T17:34:00.000-08:00

Winter Solstice Sunrise December 21, 2005

2006-01-13T14:01:00.000-08:00

Morning Has Broken. . .

2006-01-13T13:56:00.000-08:00

Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day

lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon

Song made popular world-wide

by Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam

Look What Eye Found Waiting At The Top Of The Mountain. . .

2006-01-13T08:33:00.000-08:00