With a Geological Twist

Virunga Volcano, Chile

What this Site is About

Short Fiction and Essays

Photographs

Scenes and Places

Birds and Animals

Petrology and
Optical Mineralogy
Mount Robson

The photograph above is Mt Robson by moonlight.

If you click on a thumbnail to the right you will be sent to a description of the electronic document where you can download it if you desire.

I spent 35 years teaching at the University of Calgary. In 2014. I moved into a delightful condo in Burnaby, a community next door to Vancouver. When I retired, I started writing short-short fiction pieces, continued working on a mineralogical project left over from my university days, and photographing whatever found itself in front of my camera lens.

In 2022 I moved to a different condo, still in Burnaby, with new views to photograph.

This web site is for those of you who might be interested in flash stories, optical mineralogy, volcanic petrology, the odd essay, and amateur photography.
Short-short fiction Photo Essay on How to Photograph from Below Essay on Darwin and Dickens Analysis of A Tale of Two Cities Photo Essay on BC Forests near Maple Ridge Photo Essay Zealandia and New Caledonia Essay on Standard Deviation, the 2nd Statistic Baseball from a hotel room Photo Essay on the Grand Canyon
Photos from from my condo balcony. Moss covered trees, part 1 Moss covered trees, part 1 Reflections of people, places and animals. Photographs of Crowheart Butte, Wyoming. Photographs of Tides at Port Moody, British Columbia. Photographs Near High Tide at Port Moody, British Columbia. Photographs of Lower Seymour Conservation Region, British Columbia. Photographs of Ambleside Beach Park, North Vancouver, British Columbia. Photographs of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, 2021. Photographs of Ile Bonaventure, 2022. Photographs of Haida Gwaii, August 2022. Photographs of Sunshine Coast, 2022. Photographs, Spring 2022. Photographs, Summer 2022. VanDusen Gardens September 2022. Mt. Baker, A Cascade Volcano. Green Timbers Urban Forest Park, BC Green Timbers Urban Forest Park, Surrey, BC
How to photograph birds in flight. Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese. Penguins in Falkland Island and Antarctica Gulls playing in the wind. Gulls chasing a ferry Gulls chasing a ferry, part 2 Portraits of Birds Portraits of Animals Ducks, Coot, and Grebes Canada Geese and Snow Geese Great Blue Herons Chickadees Cats and Personality Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays Swallows and Bushtits
Electronic textbook-Digital Methoods in optical crystallography Programs for calculating optical properties of crystals Essay on the Nature of Volcanic Rosks Photo-essay featuring photomicrographs of Skaergaard rocks. An account of the 1967-68 eruptions of Kilauea Volcano