Last week, I flew from Toronto (YYZ) back to Montreal (YUL). I usually avoid flying at night since the low light and window reflections make it challenging to capture good photos and videos of clouds. However, every now and then, city lights create stunning views of low-hanging clouds, just like these.
Night Clouds over Toronto
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Sunset Lake Reflections
Last week I drove out to Lac Aylmer Park, at the edge of the Eastern Townships, to photograph a sunset. It was freezing and the park was empty out at the season, and that was precisely the advantage. With nobody around, the water stayed undisturbed long enough to hold the sky whole. Contrails crossed overhead…
VIDEOA Tropical Thunderstorm from Above
On a recent flight, I encountered a tropical thunderstorm and documented it from the plane. I have flown several hundred flights over the past decade and have seen my share of thunderstorms and hurricanes from above, but this was by far the most spectacular storm I have witnessed and recorded. The frequency of the lightning…
5 Tropical Storm Clouds
With the heat easing below 30°C again this week, I’ve been looking back at last summer’s trips and those tropical storm clouds. Cloud formations like these definitely make you forget what they bring with them. Avec la chaleur qui redescend sous 30 °C cette semaine, je me suis replongé dans les voyages de l’été dernier…
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Asynchronous Airdrops Selected for Paris
I am pleased to share that Asynchronous Airdrops – One has been selected for the exhibition reel of Techspressionism: New Visual Languages at Mémoire de l’Avenir in Paris, France, curated by Colin Goldberg. The international survey of digital motion works brings together 80 artists from 24 countries. It premieres on January 22, 2027, at 6:30 p.m. Paris time (12:30…
Plotting the Next Chapter
Fifty-six days remain in 2026, and in this photo I am doing what much of my work begins with: looking up at the clouds. Lately, I have been looking back as well. I am currently reflecting and working on a new issue of my newsletter, out in mid-December. It gathers the year’s works, studio notes,…
VIDEOCombining Visualization Modes
Since 2020, when I began translating clouds in Python through tile sets of painted marks, stamp marks, and drawn shapes, much of my time has gone into tile-based visualization modes: cents, ASCII characters, halftone dots, dither, hatching, each a different vocabulary for the same sky. Until now, every export used one of them at a…