Rural landscapes: the reluctance of spring
PRAIRIE FARM BUILDINGS, SHARPLES, ALBERTA
Late March and early April is a climate tussle between winter, which doesn’t want to leave, and spring, which is eager to take over. This is the result, photographed on the beautiful western Canadian prairies on a cold “spring” morning.
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Urban landscapes: the welcoming lights
CASINO CEILING, MSC SEASCAPE
During our recent week-long vacation on a gigantic, 20-storey cruise ship, I was blown away by the ceiling illumination in the casino. The key was photographing it when no one was around the get into the shot. So I returned at 5:30 a.m. to make a series of long exposures.
This scene didn’t have much colour, so it was an easy decision to create and show you a dramatic black-and-white version.
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Rural landscapes: the colours of Caribbean
FLOWERS AT OCEAN CAY, BAHAMAS
During our recent cruise ship vacation, our ship (the MSC Seascape, a 20-storey behemoth) stopped for a day at this coral island 100 kilometres east of Miami. MSC has a 100-year lease on the island and is spending $200 million to rehabilitate the former mining operation and turn it into a destination for its cruises.
Ocean Cay is a lovely place with beaches, a lighthouse, walking paths, quaint shops and more. Just a few minutes after walking onto the island, I was taken with this glorious colour mix. After we settled down on our beach, I wandered back with my photography equipment and found what I think is a pretty nice composition. Do you agree?
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Natural landscapes: Just him and the epic sunrise
A NEW DAY ON THE MSC SEASCAPE, CARIBBEAN
Our recent cruise ship vacation gave me plenty of creative opportunities including ones like this, where I captured a solitary figure appreciating the start of a warm new day. I was far enough away to ensure he never knew he was being photographed.
The Seascape is a 20-storey vacation behemoth with 5,600 passengers and 1,500 crew. We went for a week with three couples from our church in Ontario and had a great time. 🙂
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Natural landscapes: still in the grip of winter
BOW LAKE
AND CROWFOOT MOUNTAIN,
BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
At this high elevation, winter continues long after the official start of spring. In fact, the lake probably won’t be ice-free until June.
Whatever the season, this is one of the most spectacular parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I was blessed to visit on an absolutely frigid day — it was -27c when I made this late-afternoon picture — that was so stunningly gorgeous that the temperature didn’t bother me.
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Rural landscapes: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
FOGGY DAY ON THE FARMLAND, DINGLE, IRISH REPUBLIC
I went back into the archives and found this beauty from my 1993 trip to Ireland. This island is my spiritual home and I’ve become a student of the republic’s 1916-23 revolutionary period that led to the Ireland we know today.
Dingle Peninsula is one of the many spectacular places on this ancient island. It’s known for rugged scenery, trails and sandy beaches. Here’s some evidence, from the same trip: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-1uV. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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Urban landscapes: me and the snowy dawn
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE BOW RIVER, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I knew this former railroad bridge was beautifully illuminate at night; it was just a matter of getting there at the right time. A foot of snow the previous day provided the conditions I was looking for.
This was a cold morning at -21c, but as you can see, the effort was worth it for a long exposure where I turned on the camera timer, then raced to get into the picture. Did this about six times until I liked my placement.
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Urban landscapes: basking with the bridge
CHERRY STREET NORTH BRIDGE, TORONTO, ONTARIO
This is one of four new bridges that opened just this year in the port lands of Canada’s largest city. I figured there might be decent photo opportunities there, but I was blown away by the possibilities presented in wet, foggy weather.
Two of the bridges are red, the others are orange and yellow. All were constructed in Halifax/Dartmouth Nova Scotia, then transported by ship to Toronto via the St. Lawrence Seaway. I’ll check out the other bridges on future Toronto trips.
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Natural landscapes: on the edge of dawn
LAKE LOUISE BOATHOUSE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
It was a frigid morning but, as you can see, the snow on the trees made the experience very worthwhile. Lake Louise is a very busy place no matter what season or weather, but I had the place to myself to enjoy the peace and silence of God’s creation.
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Rural landscapes: exploring the ancient world
CRUMBLING BARN, MOSSLEIGH, ALBERTA
I visited this tiny western Canadian village to photograph grain elevators, but before I moved on I found and visited this ancient barn. I’ve made this kind of photo — putting myself into a rural building scene — before, so I twisted the camera to create a different perspective.
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Wildlife: where the waterfowl gather
CANADA GEESE AND MALLARD DUCKS, BOW RIVER, CALGARY, ALBERTA
During the cold winter months, almost every open spot on this western Canadian river is occupied by geese and ducks. I was fortunate to have a big telephoto zoom lens to capture this noisy conference and have a decent background to go with the wildlife.
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Urban landscapes: speaking to the night
240 DUNCAN MILLS ROAD, TORONTO, ONTARIO
During a recent trip to Canada’s largest city, I was photographing traffic when I spotted some sort of brilliantly lit building just a few kilometres away. Finishing the traffic pictures, I headed over to the lights and found this amazingly illuminated office building.
Thankfully, no one (i.e. security guards) was around, so I had time to leisurely circle the building and find compositions like this. The neat thing about the lighting was it changed colour every minute or so, and that helped created new photo possibilities. In this case, I like the warm-cold contrast of the entryway and the blue elsewhere.
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Natural landscapes: the sliver of winter light
SNOWY TREES ON A COLD MORNING, BANFF NATIONAL PARK
The light was hitting just right — and just for a few minutes — on this baby tree in the midst of a Rocky Mountain forest. Seeing the opportunity to isolate it against a complementary background, I quickly set up my equipment and captured it before the sun moved and took the light with it.
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Urban landscapes: where the traffic goes
MACLEOD TRAIL MORNING TRAFFIC, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Long-exposure light trails are fun, but they don’t always work without a strong background. So I hunted around until finding these office buildings to fill out the rest of the composition in this western Canadian city.
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Rural landscapes: Making a beautiful statement
HOARFROST ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES, WHEATLAND COUNTY, ALBERTA
All the frost had disappeared in Calgary, where I live, but as I drove east on the beautiful prairies, the frost reappeared. Then it was just a matter of finding the right scene to capture the beauty. How did I do with this spot?
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Rural landscapes: Where the train travels
LAKE LOUISE TRAIN STATION, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
I was blessed to find a Canadian Pacific train stopped at the station, in the midst of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Also blessed to have a pile of snow to stand on and get a higher perspective, so the distant peaks would be visible.
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Natural landscapes: the arrival of dawn
SUNRISE AT VERMILION LAKES,
BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
There’s always some open water here, no matter how cold the temperature, so it’s very popular sunrise photography locale.
On this day, there were at least three other folks with cameras, each of us jockeying for a spot. I liked this viewpoint because there’s lot of attractive foreground elements. The peaks you’re looking at are Mount Rundle and Sulphur Mountain.
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Natural landscapes: on a silent winter’s day….
O’SHAUNESSY CREEK,
KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA
This charming little stream flows out of the forest beside a mountain road in this western Canadian province.
After making pictures near the road, I followed the stream up the hill and into the woods, where scenes like this provided endless creative possibilities.
As is so often the case during overcast winter weather, there was almost no colour to be had, so it was an easy decision to create and show you a black-and-white version.
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Urban landscapes: the dark and dusky day
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH, NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO
I remembered seeing this church, set in a very complementary landscape, several years earlier so, on a recent visit to Niagara Falls, I tracked it down and was blessed to photography it during “blue hour”.
I liked using the Celtic cross to balance the church as a second visual highlight, but knew it needed to “pop” out of the picture. So I used a small flashlight I keep just for moments like this and, during the looong 20-second exposure, I “painted” the cross with light. Worked pretty well, eh? 🙂
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Rural landscapes: the sweet sunrise silhouette
THE ANCIENT BARN, KEOMA, ALBERTA
This barn was among several ancient buildings near a tiny hamlet on the glorious prairies of western Canada. I moved all over, capturing them in warm sunlight and then in a silhouette setting that highlighted the sunny dawn.
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