Murray Sharratt Photography

Murray Sharratt Photography Documenting my adventures as a landscape photographer and making available high end pieces of art to for sale.

This morning's "Full Blue Moon" setting behind the Olympic Mountains from Macaulay Point, Esquimalt. It was nice of this...
06/01/2026

This morning's "Full Blue Moon" setting behind the Olympic Mountains from Macaulay Point, Esquimalt. It was nice of this early morning walker to venture to the end of the breakwater around 5:05 am.

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Once in a blue moon - looked more like an orange in a sky of blue.Captured last night at Hatley Park looking across Esqu...
06/01/2026

Once in a blue moon - looked more like an orange in a sky of blue.

Captured last night at Hatley Park looking across Esquimalt Lagoon, Colwood. Although the official full moon is tonight, the timing just after sunset made last night's rising more appealing with light still in the sky. Tonight's rising is an hour and 11 minutes after sunset.

According to NASA, a Blue Moon is when a full moon happens twice in the same month. The lunar cycle around earth last about 29 and a half days, slightly shorter than most months and as a result every once in a while there is a full moon at the beginning and end of the month.

Not sure if anyone was near the water yesterday evening, but it was blowing and chilly. As well, the atmospheric conditions and some faint streaking clouds really added to the distortion and eerie look of the moon.

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Milky Way rising over East Sooke from Whiffen Spit, Vancouver Island. Fun night several years ago when I was out with wi...
05/27/2026

Milky Way rising over East Sooke from Whiffen Spit, Vancouver Island. Fun night several years ago when I was out with wildlife photographer and friend Lee-Ann Ruttan Photography who wanted to try her hand at some astro photography.

Found these files just the other day. Still not getting out as my surgeon has informed me that I need to do six more weeks before I'm free with no fun restrictions.

This was taken before I had an astro modified camera and a sky tracker, but just with stacked shots in Sequator and a bit of data stretching in Photoshop I was able to show off some of the beautiful air glow that was present that night.

EXIF - stacked blended
Sky - Canon 6D, Rokinon 24mm 1.4
ISO - 2500
F - 2
13 secs. x 8 frames stacked for noise reduction

Foreground - Canon 6D, Rokinon 24 mm 1.4
ISO - 2500
F- 2
Stacked exposure blend of 13, 8 and 5 secs. x 6

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I've been thinking about lighthouses lately.Some have suggested I should do a lighthouse calendar, what do you think? Wo...
05/24/2026

I've been thinking about lighthouses lately.

Some have suggested I should do a lighthouse calendar, what do you think? Would this one of Trial Island Lighthouse, Oak Bay, in front of the Olympic Mountains and shot from in late afternoon light from Colwood, Vancouver Island, make the cut?

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Milky Way arch over Creyke Point, East Sooke.From March of 2024, when good friend and amazing photographer Neil Dickie a...
05/22/2026

Milky Way arch over Creyke Point, East Sooke.

From March of 2024, when good friend and amazing photographer Neil Dickie and I made an early morning visit to this wonderful location. We started at the end of the trail on top of the point with views of the Olympic Mountains and Port Angeles.

The water was incredibly still, although a longer exposure helped smooth it out even more. We shot all our sky images from the top of point (I'll include an image from up there in comments) and then proceeded to this location about five minutes away. Although the camera was starting to pick up sunrise colours in the distance, most of the warm glow was from the lights of Seattle.

EXIF - Panorma/composite
Sky - Canon 6D (astro modified), Rokinon 24 mm 1.4
ISO - 2500
F - 2.8
10 secs.
2- row pano with 18 single shots. (luckily there was only a few satellites to deal with, lol)

Foreground - Canon 6D, Rokinon 24 mm 1.4
ISO - 4000
F- 4
5, 8, 13 secs. exposures (exposure blend) x 5 stacked for noise.

Stacked in Sequator, processed in Starnet and edited in PS and LR.

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First time out since my surgery nearly six weeks ago and it felt so good! I picked an easy location near the parking lot...
05/19/2026

First time out since my surgery nearly six weeks ago and it felt so good! I picked an easy location near the parking lot at Macaulay Point Park in Esquimalt. All three photos were taken within a three foot radius, lol!

These were all longer exposures from 30 to 90 seconds. I ended up focus stacking the first image. Shot Sunday evening.

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This is part two of my Fisgard Lighthouse series. Happy to hear so many enjoyed my first dump of photos. As in part one,...
05/15/2026

This is part two of my Fisgard Lighthouse series. Happy to hear so many enjoyed my first dump of photos.

As in part one, these photos are shot from different areas of Greater Victoria over the last 10 years There are some repeat locations on a different day with different conditions. In case you are wondering about the first image, it was the sunrise during forest fire smoky conditions from several years ago. Thanks for having a look!

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I've been spending a lot of time at home the last five weeks rehabbing from hip replacement surgery and with a lot of fr...
05/13/2026

I've been spending a lot of time at home the last five weeks rehabbing from hip replacement surgery and with a lot of free time at home, I've had the chance to look and organize thousands of images I have shot over the last 10 years.

One thing I've learned about my photography, is that I shoot the Fisgard Lighthouse, Colwood, a lot, lol! I decided to put a series of my best images together featuring this iconic lighthouse from different locations around Greater Victoria. I ended up with 36 images so I broke it into two parts. This is part one, thanks for looking.

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While going through and organizing some photo files of late, this one caught my eye. On this morning the back lighting o...
05/12/2026

While going through and organizing some photo files of late, this one caught my eye.

On this morning the back lighting on the mist rising off the trees near the shoreline and the detail above on the slopes of Hurricane Ridge, an area of Washington State's Olympic Mountains, was exciting to witness. This spot in View Royal is one of my favourite spots to photograph Fisgard Lighthouse.

I also realized, that I shoot this iconic lighthouse a lot and I've decided to put a series of images together, which I will share in the next few days. Thanks for having a look!

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