George Wade Photography

Name: George Wade Photography
Address: Kentville, NS, B4N3Z1, CA
Telephone: +19026910352

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Nova Scotia based Landscape Astrophotographer

04/28/2026

My first Milky Way shot of the season! I had shot this exact location last year, which is the boardwalk at the Summerville Beach Provincial Park in Nova Scotia, however this is my first time incorporating hydrogen-alpha data into one of my images.
Hydrogen-alpha is a deep-red visible light spectral line emitted by excited hydrogen gas in space. Capturing this image involved shooting several exposures of the sky with an un-modified, full colour RGB camera on a star tracker, then replacing that camera with an astro-modified one partnered with a hydrogen-alpha filter. I then combined the resulting h-alpha data with the full colour shots of the Milky Way and blended that result with an un-tracked shot of the foreground.
I’m not really thrilled with the result I have here, but it’s my first attempt and I’m really looking forward to hopefully improving over the coming season!

04/21/2026

Another night out with the DWARF 3 from ! Since it features both a wide-angle and telephoto lens, I decided to spend some time getting familiar with the wide-angle setup by shooting star trails.
While the DWARF 3 includes a built-in timelapse feature, I prefer stacking my own star trails so I can remove satellites and airplane trails. For this shot, I captured 325 frames in burst mode, each with a 45-second exposure at zero gain. I then stacked the images in StarStax and combined them into a timelapse using LRTimelapse.
One of the biggest challenges with shots like this is aligning true north with your subject, but the Atlas feature on the DWARF 3 made it incredibly easy to place Polaris right in the center of the frame. That said, if you look closely, the Buddha is out of alignment in this composition.
As many of you likely know, Polaris doesn’t sit exactly at true north—it slowly rotates around it. I tried to get clever by using my Polar Align app (the same one I use for setting up my star tracker) to determine Polaris’s position in its rotation so I could offset the subject accordingly. Unfortunately, I forgot that the app shows a mirrored view—since it’s designed for use with a polar scope—which completely threw off my alignment when I compensated in the opposite direction.
It was devastating when I realized the mistake I’d made, but it certainly won’t happen again!
🙏🏼Om Mani Padme Hum🙏🏼

04/07/2026

I’ve had terrible luck with clouds lately, but I managed to shoot a few more targets with the DWARF 3 from DWARF LAB.
First is the Orion Nebula (M42), second is the Flame and Horsehead Nebula (IC 434), and third is Bode’s Galaxy (M81).
For the Orion Nebula I stacked 117 frames of 45 second exposure with 100 gain while utilizing the built in dual band filter. The Flame and Horsehead Nebula is a stack of 410 frames of 30 second exposure with 60 gain and the dual band filter. Bode’s Galaxy is a stack of 500 frames of 30 second exposure with 60 gain paired with the DWARF’s built in astro filter.
I planned to gather more data for each of these targets had the weather cooperated, but I’m thoroughly impressed with the DWARF 3’s ability to capture so much detail with these relatively short exposure times. Thanks again DWARF LAB!

03/23/2026

Were you lucky enough to see the northern lights on Friday? I certainly was not! I was completely surrounded by clouds and rain. But it did remind me that I had some unedited frames I hadn’t looked over from the last time I had a view of the lights. This image was captured November 11th in a farmer’s orchard on the Wolfville Ridge, overlooking Greenwich and Port Williams with my Nikon Z8 and Nikkor 20mm from . Let me know if you got a glimpse of them this weekend!
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02/17/2026

I was up on the South Mountain above the Annapolis Valley the other night, gathering data of the Andromeda Galaxy for a project with . I had the idea to shoot this composition with my Z8 in a field across the road while I was waiting. This is only about 2 hours of trails, as I used my external power bank to power the DWARF III and the cold really hastened the drain of my battery. The hardest part of this shot by far was trudging across that entire field in the dark in such deep snow!
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01/30/2026

The Deportation Cross pays tribute to the memory of the Acadians lost during the Deportation. Despite exile and hardship, those who survived enabled Acadie to eventually flourish again and pass on its identity to future generations.
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Thank you 📸 George Wade Photography for sharing this amazing capture of the aurora borealis.

01/20/2026

A shot of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia’s Cape Forchu Lighthouse from late August that has remained un-edited until now. The 2019 film ‘The Lighthouse’ was actually filmed on the rugged grounds of Cape Forchu, although a fake lighthouse was constructed for use in the movie.
The original Cape Forchu Lighthouse was constructed in 1839, but was demolished in 1961 and replaced with what is known as the “apple core” tower in 1962 that you see here.
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11/12/2025

I ventured out last-minute last night when I realized that the cloud forecast had lied to me! I still managed to grab a few shots of the Grand Pre National Historic Site before it started snowing.
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10/23/2025

I had big plans for the Harrison Point Lighthouse on this latest trip to Barbados, so you can imagine how disappointed I was when I arrived to find a huge new locked metal door added to it! Was it being open to the public an accident waiting to happen? Yes. Am I still rattled about it? Absolutely.
I was really looking forward to illuminating and capturing it with a star tracker for the first time, but I guess that’s not in the cards. I also didn’t realize how difficult using a star tracker that close to the equator would be. Polaris sits barely above the horizon so that any hill or trees in the way make polar aligning nearly impossible. With that being the case, I decided to do my best and light paint the windows of the wickie’s house in Barbados gold and blue and capture about 45 minutes of star trails.🇧🇧

09/23/2025

The Point Prim Lighthouse, the oldest one on Prince Edward Island. It was built in 1845, and is the only brick lighthouse on the island and one of only three in all of Canada.
I shot this on a beautiful night last week, which also ended up being a late one as it was 5 hours driving both ways from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. This image is tracked, stacked and blended.

09/02/2025

I drove down to Yarmouth last week to photograph the Cape Forchu Lighthouse, but got distracted by this signpost down on the point. I feel like seeing our galaxy stretching out beyond it makes the earthly distances displayed on the signs seem rather insignificant.
For this shot I illuminated the signs with a few small lights placed on the ground around it, and shot six 5 minute exposures to focus stack for the foreground. I’d normally shoot several sky exposures and stack those for noise reduction, but it was so insanely windy down there this night that I could barely get this single 5 minute exposure with the camera relatively still. The resulting exposures were blended giving us the image you see here!

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