Claude Fiset Photography


claude at claudefiset.ca


To explore and photograph my surroundings are nice distractions from the awareness that the "woke" madness with its gender, climate, pharma, racist, anti free expression and warmonger cults has taken over our world. Now the A.I. monsters are on the loose.

Explorer et photographier mon environnement sont des agréables distractions face à la prise de conscience que la folie "woke" avec ses cultes de genre, de climat, de "pharma", racistes, contre la liberté d'expression et bellicistes a pris le contrôle de notre monde. Maintenant les monstres de l'IA sont en liberté.




KALEO: "Way Down We Go"

Lyrics here
NOTES:
No AI (Artificial Intelligence) used in my pictures. I use Affinity Photo to process my pictures and Affinity Designer to draw.
Links to some of the music I listen to: Monstercat Silk Radio, Above & Beyond, Miss Monique, Nora En Pure
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Chris Rea | Girl In A Sports Car
March 28, 2025 - As an industrial designer who enjoys lines and curves and machines, every so often I like to go to classic car shows to drool over cars I cannot afford. These classics cars are very expensive. Some are rebuilt and/or modified with modern powertrains and "souped-up" engines. Taking good pictures is somewhat challenging as there are a lot of people around admiring them and sometimes the cars are too close together. I will have more in future postings.
March 21, 2025 - Spring arrived yesterday March 20th. I checked out a local city garden and captured a few flowers while it was overcast as it is best not to have direct sunlight for flowers. I just needed to dodge the rain showers.
March 14, 2025 - We had a full moon named the "Crow Moon" or "Worm Moon" amongst other names on March 13th yesterday. I sometimes take pictures of near full moon a couple days before if the conditions are good. Since the weather was not favorable I am posting pictures I have taken at the same locations in previous year in March and this year we have a full moon eclipse at midnight. I stayed up and watch to see if the moon would show up in between the clouds. It did a few times before the eclipse 1 minute before midnight. The moon turns red during an eclipse due to sunlight refracting through the earth atmosphere. It is also named the "Blood Moon"
These moon pictures are real. No composite or AI.
BT - Time Moves So Fast (PROFF & Volen Sentir's Timestop Remix) [Monstercat Release]
March 7, 2025 - Archectural abstract.
Feb. 28, 2025 - Here is a young bald eagle often called "immature" or "juvenile" who had just left the nest and decided to be on his own and feed himself. He was having a rough start in catching field mice or voles but he kept on trying. When he matures his head will turn white and his coat a little darker. Ok, maybe it is a "she".
Feb. 21, 2025 - This week's perfomative shenanigans by our spineless politicians of every stripe about a possible trade war with the US made me think about the work I did in manufacturing. These images are from full scale 3D computer models I designed and built for manufacturing purposes. Every components and parts are real including the nuts and bolts and the holes they go into. I can take parts of the model and send it electronically to be cut and shaped with all the bolt holes by laser or gas torches and made ready for assembly.

In all my career I have experienced the decline in manufacturing, lack of inovation, and the "stick in my wheels" from our elites. They believe manufacturing should be left to other countries unless the government pays for it as in corporate wellfare. They want us to be happy with just selling our natural resources. But we still have brave men who built the above machines or other equipment, make money, built a legacy for themselves, and still believe in manufacturing.


Flexible Fire - Amatista (Amethyst)
Feb. 14, 2025 - These pictures are real with no AI and are not composites.
We had clear blue skies this week due to a cold front. It gave us an opportunity to take pictures of a near full moon Feb. 10 and 11 before sunset and a full moon Feb. 12 just after sunset. The February full moon is called the "Snow Moon"
Since it was too cold to go out for my liking, I dug up some pictures I took on previous outings to the same locations when the moon was rising over downtown Vancouver and taken from spots along the English Bay shore from Jericho Beach to Vanier park.
Happy Valentine's Day. My cartoon interpretation of equality with common goals and sincere commitment. NOT "Lets go for the ride and see what happens"
Feb. 7, 2025 - Owls captured in various outings.
Jan. 31, 2025 - Birds captured in various outings.
Jan 24, 2025 - Freezing today. Pictures of "Hair Ice" taken a couple of years ago this week. It is a type of frost that grow in very specific conditions, locations and not every year. These was taken at the south west end of Green Timbers lake in Surrey BC. The only place I found it.


Terry Da Libra - Sparkles
Jan. 17, 2025 - The full moon of the month, the "Wolf Moon", was on Jan 13th, 2025. Once again we had an overcast sky and I could not see it. (No AI used in my pictures)

1- But If I could have seen it, this is where it would have been from the same location at Brunswick Point in Delta BC. This one was taken on Jan 1st 2018. In the foreground it is the Canoe Pass float home village on the Fraser River near Ladner with the Golden Ears mountains in the background 57k away.
2- Moonrise taken from Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver. The foreground is English Bay and downtown Vancouver with Mount Baker in the background 121k away in Washington State.
3- Moonrise over the Lion's Gate bridge in West Vancouver.
4- Moonrise near Mount Baker from Centennial Park in Tsawwassen Delta with Boundary Bay in the foreground.
Jan. 10, 2025 - Pictures from this time last year. It only lasted a few days. It does not look like we will be getting any snow this year which in fact is normal here in the west coast of British Columbia. Even my hummingbirds did not show up this winter. They normally fly south but I have had them visiting and hanging out all year most years and enjoying my "go juice".
Jan 3, 2025 - The moon crescent setting behind the buildings next to the Vancouver Convention Center is what we would have seen if the sky had been clear on Jan 1st. This picture was taken across Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver a few years ago. 2 & 3 were moonsets taken at other locations and 4 was a moonrise behind Mount Baker.


Nightwatchers - Midnight Hour (Instrumental Mix)
Dec 27, 2024 - A few days ago I drove east to Hope near the mountains to see if Frosty has left some of his footprints of frost in the local gardens.
Dec. 20 - It is the winter solstice tomorrow the 21st and Christmas Time. Even the aliens want in on the action. I heard them say: "Lets entertain the Earthlings before they shoot at us."
Dec. 13, 2024 - More digital paintings I made over the last 4 years. With winter coming restricting my road trips I will have to tie me down to a chair so that I can stay still and paint. I really do not like winter. We do not get a lot of snow here (Vancouver to Hope). It is more like rainy season. But I would walk outside after a snow fall to take pictures.
Dec. 6, 2024 - More composite images made from parts of existing images (photobashing) and some painting touch up. No AI tools used.

1- "Earth Recall" - If you think the Aliens are coming to save us it may not be what you hope for.
2- The Barred Owl is an invasive owl species in BC and doing some damage to local species.
3- Woke parties are tough as seen with this tired old Paint Unicorn. "Paint" is a horse breed.
4- Made up moonrise at Mount Baker from my photos and borrowed wolf images.

Adam Port, Stryv - Move feat. Malachiii (Extended Version)
Nov. 29, 2024 - From a summer drive around and walkabout.

1- Fort Langley famous bookstore and cafe
2- Fort Langley rowing club
3- Derby Reach Regional Park caretaker's home
4- Port Haney and the Golden Ears mountains across the Fraser River
5- Hooded Merganser in a local pond
6- Red-Wing Blackbird at Pitt Lake
7- Great Blue Heron at Pitt Lake
8- Helicopter fertilizing the cranberry bogs in Pitt Meadows
Nov. 22, 2024 - Here are some photo composites and manipulation without using AI:

1- Vancouver False Creek with the Cambie bridge and the Harbour Convention Centre: I changed the sky with one with the moon I had taken at another time.
2- Vancouver Museum in Vanier park. Both pictures were taken the same night but the moon was much higher.
3- Downtown Vancouver taken from North Vancouver across Burrard Inlet. Here the city and the moon are real but I replaced the water with a reflection of the city.
4- Vancouver West-End taken from Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver. I added a picture of a sailboat I used to own and the moon taken elsewhere.
Nov. 16, 2024 - Full moon was yesterday on Nov. 15. The "Beaver Moon" and not visible due to a cloudy sky. Here are some pictures from previous moon chasing "expeditions".
All real no tricks no manipulation well planned locations.

1- Vancouver West-End from Jericho Beach between the Trump (Paradox) and the Shangri-la towers
2- Burnaby and the Knight St bridge from across the Fraser River in Richmond
3- Mount Baker from Derby Reach Regional Park
4- Mount Baker from Centennial Beach in Tsawassen.

Late Night Alumni
Beautiful (Myon x Hoten Extended Mix)
Nov. 15, 2024 - Some birds from past outtings
Nov. 8, 2024 - Short trip to Campbell Valley Regional Park in July.
Nov. 1, 2024 - On Oct 17 I drove to Pitt Meadows on the way to Pitt Lake looking for fall colours in the farmers fields and see if the cranberries harvest had started. The harvest had not started but the blueberry fields had turned red. The clouds were also impressive.


Rafa'EL - Soulmotion
Oct. 25, 2024. - Early October outing to Bear Creek Park, Surrey looking for early signs of Autumn. Also found some late summer flowers.
Oct. 18, 2024. Drove around Surrey and Delta in the last few weeks to scout for fall colours and harvesting scenery. The harvesting is corn, potatoes and forage that is wrapped in bales.


Sound Quelle - Iridescent
Set #8 Aug. 25, 2024. Last day of my road trip to the National Grassland in Saskatchewan and back to Surrey. These pictures were taken early in the day of the fog banks in farm lands between Osoyoos and Keremeos. My last stop was the lookout at Manning Park.
Set #7 Aug. 23, 2024. Heading back to BC from Drumheller via the Kananaskis to capture the rockies and a couple of Big Horn ewe sheeps and a lamb. And on my way to another diner. I was taking my time in the mountains looking at scenery and looking for wildlife. There was no cell reception and later I forgot to make a hotel reservation. When I entered BC it was late and dark under a thunder storm and heavy rain with barely 2 cars lengths visibility. By the time I arrived in Fernie all hotels were full and it was the same in Cranbrook. I ended sleeping in my car next to a small pile of snow at a Point of Interest at Moyie Lake. Not the first time I slept in my car on road trips except the other times the weather was much more conducive to sleeping under the stars.


Giorgio Moroder - Tom's Diner (Lyric Video) ft. Britney Spears
Set #6 - Aug. 22, 2024 -From my road trip to the National Grasslands in Saskatchewan from Surrey BC and back via Drummeller and the Kananaskis.

Today is the Drumheller area.
1- The Willow Creek Hoodoos. This is all there is. I was surprised as I thought there would be lots more.
2- Part of the landscape with the hoodoos.
3- A friendly gentleman, retired pro Holliwood photographer and now part time photographer and gardener looking after his daughter's ice cream stand called the Hydration Station in the hoodoos parking lot.
4- Suspension bridge over the Red Deer river east of Drumheller.
5- Red Deer river.
6- The welcoming committee at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.
7- Dinosaur dolphin?
8- Horse Thief Canyon.
9- Bleriot Ferry.
10- Bleriot Ferry friendly captain.
11- Tyrannosaurus rex.World's Largest Dinosaur downtown Drumheller.
12- Horseshoe Canyon.
Now on and onwards to the next diner.


Naz & Lewyn - One Life
Set #5 - Aug 21, 2024 On my way to Drumheller and the Badlands from Swift Current driving rural gravel and paved roads looking for wildlife and scenery. This set ends in Dorothy Alberta by the Red Deer river. I saw this pronghorn near the road doing a strange jig dance bothered by the grasshoppers flying at him and then he sped away as I took the shot.
Set #4 at the Grassland National Park (Aug 18, 2024)

I was disappointed as after 6 hours in the heat walking short trails, waiting and driving around, these animals are all I saw. Missing were birds like the Long-billed curlew, the Ferruginous hawk and other hawks. The Burrowing Owls that hang out with the Prairie Dogs were gone. No deers. The Pronghorns and hawks were outside the park as in my previous pictures. Someone I met saw a coyote (Swift Fox?) far far away. But lots of Grasshoppers. But with all of this food the animals were probably filled and having a nap somewhere. This was the season. Must go back in a different month.

I had just driven over 400k in gravel and rural paved roads filled with these grasshoppers plugging the front and underneath the car and my AC died before I reached the park. After having ignored it, I realised that I did not want to carry on without the AC as I was starting to not feeling so good. I have had a heat stroke before adventuring in hot weather... But on the other hand, in a heat stroke you start to see the animals in hallucinations. I had to have it replaced in Swift Current and that cost as much as my whole 10 days on the road. That is part of adventuring. A pretend 4 Runner is still cheaper than a real one.

Eelke Kleijn - 51 Degrees Nord (Original Mix) [Suara]
Set #3 of images from my road trip to the Grassland National Park in Saskatchewan. (Aug 17, 2024)


Chris Rea - On the Beach
Set #2 of images from my 10 days road trip to the Grasslands in Saskatchewan (Aug 15, 2024)
1- Overall view of Penticton on Lake Okanagan from the Munson Mountain Lookout.
2- The paddle wheeler S.S. Sicamous permanently grounded and set as a museum.
3 & 4 Okanagan Falls on Skaha Lake, my favorite place in the Okanagans where I stop every so often on my road trips.
5 & 6 The Kettle Valley Rail trail (KVR) trestle.
7- The pond at the Okanagan Paradise Resorts
8- Osoyoos Lake and town.
Set #1 of images from my 10 days road trip to the Grasslands in Saskatchewan (Aug 14, 2024)
1- Meet Rick. He is a Similkameen Guardian for the Lower Similkameen Indian Band in Keremeos BC. He also treasure hunts for stone tools artifacts dating back as much as 15,000 years on the river bed. This is the Ashnola Bridge just outside Keremeos.
2- An over view of the valley in Keremeos.

A.M.R - One Man Island [Silk Music]
Some more flowers and garden abstract from my June 13 visit to Fleetwood Park garden.
July 6, 2024 Jericho Beach: I wanted to see the foil sailing dinghy race as in the third picture but only 3 boats showed and they had a hard time getting them up on the foils as there was not enough wind. The patience to learn windsurfing is unreal. I preferred a sailboat I can sleep in and sail all day to an anchorage somewhere which I did for years.
July 26, 2024 Pitt Lake: Osprey mom watches her kids strengthening their wings by practising flying above the nest. Satisfied she decides to go fishing.

Nightwatchers - God is a DJ
Digital paintings with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer :
1- Vancouver City Skyline. This took me forever to do. I have a strong desire to paint but I cannot stay still. It is why I like photography as I am always on the move and developping the pictures is relatively quick.
2- Piccadilly Rose.
3- Monarch Butterfly painted on a photo of their preferred flowers the Milkweed.
4- I saw a version of this pokemon character (Bayleef) and painted my own. The frog painting is a combination of drawing and photobashing which is taking parts of a picture and pasting them in the painting. I keep hearing the frog asking the Maypleleef if he is from Ottawa or Victoria BC, you know, where the unicorn aka woke politicians live.
July 19, 2024: Moonrise of the September full moon named the Buck Moon. This is downtown Vancouver at sunset viewed from Stanley Park. Technically it is 98% full moon. The actual full moon is tonight the 20th after dark and not in a position for a good picture. It is best to have a moonrise at sunset +/- 15 minutes. That is my rule.

Estiva - Sky (Above & Beyond Live at #ABGT450 Deep Warm Up Set)
July 7, 2024. Fort Langley to see a Corvette show and a walkabout. Too crowded for some other interesting Corvettes and for archectural pictures.
More wildlife from Grassland National Park: Hope to get more pictures next month (August 2024) on a roadtrip.
1- Met this dinosaur heading the other way at The T-Rex Discorery Centre in Eastend Saskatchewan.
2- Black Tail prairy dog on lookout for hungry hawks.
3- Pronghorn interrupted their chinwag when I sneaked out of my car. So much for trying to be subtle.
4- Long-billed Curlew teasing the prairy dogs out for play time.
More composites for fun:
1- Alien explorers on a pit stop at the Clavius crater on the moon wandering if it is safe to visit Earth or just carry-on to the Andromeda galaxy.
2- How paranoid believers or paid Big Pharma puppets want you to see the world.
3- "Hey Love, where are you from?"
4- Fisherman looking in dismay at his slack line wandering where his fish went.
The full moon was on June 21, 2024 at the equinox, the first day of summer, the longest day of the year. Since I did not get my shot here are some from previous outings.



Not Now Please - Don't Forget The Parachute
June 13, 2024 Fleetwood Garden, Surrey, BC.
Grassland National Park in Saskatchewan:
1- Plains Bison also known as American Buffalo which is different to the Wood Bison. I thought I was good at hiding in the tall grass when I realised through my long lens that he was watching me. So I took my shot, got up and walk away while he was chewing on some grass watching me him thinking:" Wildlife photographer wannabe".
2- Pronghorns the second fastest animal next to Cheetahs.I was quitely lying in a ditch next to my car to get this shot after I realised after a few attemps at getting a shot that they were not afraid of the car but of the people exiting the car. I had to crawl out of the car and crawl to the ditch. You can tell they were curious and watching.
3- Another lucky shot of these black tail deers taken sitting in my car while they were bubbing heads behaving like they never seen a car before or was it me with strange vibes?
4- Black-tailed Prairie Dogs laughing after they got the memo from the bison.


16BL & Wild Dark - Always
None of my moon pictures are composites unless disclosed as below.
More composites:
1- A pair of bald eagles courting in early spring with a new sky and full moon picture.
2- Dramatised a daytime picture with rain and lightning.
3- A hot rod picture taken at a car show. I added Mount Baker and a stone wall removed form another picture.
4- I took a picture of this Russian Tall Ship when it came to Vancouver, remore all other boats around it and added one of my moon crescent pictures.


Way Out West - Tuesday Maybe

May 30, 2024: Harrison Lake where the village is called Harrison Hot Spring and the village mascot is the Sasquatch near Mount Cheam.



Röyksopp - Stay Awhile

A few 29er competing in English Bay hosted by the Jericho Sailing Center.


MEHÍLOVE - Sunset

A bit of Deep & Melodic House music, my preferred genre.
May 19, 2024: I missed the sailing races this weekend at Jericho Beach in English Bay Vancouver. So I am posting from a previous sailing weekend when there were lots of sailors on the water before the scamdemic hit. Changes happen.
Some composites I did a while back: More to come.
1- A butterfly came to whisper sweet nothings in my dog's ear before he went to heaven.
2- A Brown-headed Cowbird meets up with his old friend a Savannah Sparrow: "Hey Sav remember me Cow Lick?"
3- Hearing Gull advises his friends on the hearing run happening: "Guys, do not get too greedy"
4- Inspired by true events. Ok not quite but almost every year in the fall a female shows up at my window and hovers a while then settles on a close tree branch to remind me to put up her "go juice". It amazes me every time.
"I'm good, yeah, I'm feelin' alright. Baby, I'ma have the best fuckin' night of my life."
May 12, 2024:
1- Going over the Golden Ear bridge to go to Pitt Lake to see if the Ospreys have arrive to create a new family.
2- Farmer picking up forage in Pitt Meadows.
3- Blueberry field at the foot of the Golden Ears mountains.
4- Cranberry farm with cranberry bug growing for fall harvesting.
5- Allouette river feeding some irrigation.
6- Pitt Lake small marina looked after by First Nation.
7- The Ospreys have arrived. Mom is keeping the hoevos nice and warm while dad has gone fishing to feed her. She was actually calling him "Where are you?"
8- Bald Eagle contemplating which bird nests to raid next or steal a fish from a Osprey trying to feed his family. Ospreys exclusively eat fish.
9- The ever present Great Blue Heron. This one was courting what I can assume is a female in a tree nearby but it is late in the season for he/him/ they. Maybe it is non-binary or other.
10- A beautiful pair of Tree Swallows. "Where do we put the couch Love?" "Well you are the man of the house you figure it out, Love and leave room for the nest"
11- Birders call this spot by the lake Catbird Slough. Yes there is such a bird.
12- The dicke by the lake built to protect the marsh land on the right of it and where we observe the Ospreys on the lake side.
13- There is this waterfall way up in the mountain and what appear to be a cave.
14- Squirrel on a stump POV of me and my pretend 4Runner in days like this or a Ferrari Spyder on other fun days.
15- Another squirrel POV of me in my Born (to be) Weird t-shirt. That is Weird NOT Queer. I forgot to show my virgin OJ.
Some of the birds hanging out in the trees in from of my window. The female hummingbird is actually watching the Sapsucker making more holes while the male is busy getting loaded with the "Go Juice" I made for them. Both will eat what is in these holes.
Chris Rea: "And Now My Love"
Explored the city gardens and my neighbourhood for spring flowers
A recent outing to the Brydon Park Lagoon and marsh land in Langley to see what I could find. This lagoon attracts lots of birds and real birders can find as many as 50 species in a couple of hours of walking around. But they have no pictures as they do not carry cameras. I took pictures of 11 species that day.
Went to Blackie Spit at Crescent Beach, South Surrey. Lots to see here and this is what I saw that day. We have a immature Bald Eagle, A great Blue Heron and a Greater Yellowlegs Sanpiper.
These purple/pink Fawn Lillies are the rarest of flowers among the common white Fawn Lillies and only found at Hi-Knoll park in Langley BC. Other spot exist on Vancouver Island.
A look at Hi-Knoll park and see what we find.
April 23, 2024 full moonrise near Mount Baker in Washington State 87K away from Boundary Bay, Delta. The first photo was taken April 22 from my balcony.
March full moonrise over the Chilliwack Mountains 85K away from Boundary Bay, Delta