Autumnal Equinox Eve Sunrise In Montreal Freya's Day September 21, 2012

Grands Voiliers Tall Ships With Fireworks Vieux Port De Montreal Thor's Day September 13, 2012

Venus Jupiter Conjunction March 27 2012 Over Montreal Archaeology Museum

Venus And Jupiter Come To Conjunction Over Notre-Dame-De-Bonsecours Chapel In Old Montreal On Sunday March 11, 2012

The Blessed Virgin Mary aka "The Queen Of Heaven" appears to
be blessing Venus and Jupiter as they come to conjunction
in the skies over Montreal on Sunday March 11, 2012.
Venus is the brighter planet to the right of Jupiter.

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

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.

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

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.