Urban landscapes: seconds from sunrise
SUNRISE, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I stood on the 14th Street bridge overlooking the Bow River and downtown Calgary, set up my equipment and hoped for the best. I was rewarded. 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky
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Rural landscapes: the road to sunrise
WAITING FOR DAWN AT CYPRESS HILLS PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA
I did an overnight photo trip to this park, in the deep southeast of the Canadian province of Alberta. This photo was captured after a cold night trying to sleep in the car. What a bonus to find this beautiful puddle in the road just as the sun was nearing the horizon.
This park is unique in that it connects with Cypress Hills Provincial Park across the border in the province of Saskatchewan. To my knowledge, it’s the only inter-provincial park in Canada.
Nikon D90, tripod and graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky
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Rural landscapes: the road to Greenbank
SUMMER MORNING ALONG HIGHWAY 12, SCUGOG TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO
I was photographing a charming dirt road at the top of a hill when I looked south towards the village of Greenbank. I saw the wonderful shadows cast across Hwy. 12 and the strong colours created by the morning light and the line of trees. A long telephoto lens isolated this small section of landscape, omitting the distracting off-white sky.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: making the best of ‘dirty’ weather
PATTERNS IN THE ROCKS, GIANT’S CAUSEWAY, NORTHERN IRELAND
My wife and I had just a few hours at this renowned tourist attraction (and UNESCO World Heritage site) on Ireland’s northern coast. Unfortunately, the weather for that entire visit was what the Irish call ‘dirty’ – alternating between light and heavy rain.
So I had to improvise and look for compositions beyond the standard landscape views. This was one of them, converted to black and white to remove what little colour was in the scene and help you concentrate on the subtle curve of the interlocking Basalt columns from bottom right to the distant left.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: the summer reflections
MORNING LIGHT ON THE PEAKS, WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
This park, in the deep south of this western Canadian province, is one of the windiest in Canada. Fortunately, the breeze was light on the morning I set up my equipment to capture this scene and I could still pick up reflected highlights from the snow-capped peaks.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: that glorious first light
MT. HECTOR AND HECTOR LAKE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
I fished back into the archives to dig up this 1998 scene, photographed from the Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rocky Mountains just after sunrise. This is so long ago that I was still using a film camera; the slide was scanned onto a CD and the resulting jpeg was what I worked from to create the final picture.
A long telephoto lens isolated this small part of the astounding peaks to be seen on the parkway, which is considered one of the most beautiful drives on the planet.
Nikon FM2, tripod, polarizing filter (probably)
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Urban landscapes: It’s all open text
OPEN TEXT BUILDING AND TRAFFIC, OTTAWA, ONTARIO
As soon as I spotted this beautifully illuminated building in Canada’s capital city, I gravitated toward it and spent over a half-hour working various compositions and trying to get good long-exposure pictures of moving traffic. This is the best of the bunch.
Nikon D7100, tripod
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Natural landscapes: what the water reflects
SPRING FLOW ON THE MOIRA RIVER, BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO
While visiting my brother who lives in this city of 50,000, I was up before dawn to see what could be photographed along the Lake Ontario waterfront. I saw how streetlights were reflecting in the fast-flowing river and thought some fun abstract compositions might be possible. Was I right? (Here’s another view of the same river as it passes under a bridge: http://bit.ly/BellevilleRiver.)
Nikon D7100, 70-300 mm. zoom lens, tripod
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Rural landscapes: the fields of spring
RURAL COUNTRYSIDE NEAR INVERGORDON, SCOTLAND
Our cruise ship docked at the deep-water port at this town of 4,000, giving us access to a glorious day trip into the Scottish highlands. When the visit ended, I spent time photographing the spectacular yellow rapeseed fields as the ship left the area. Here’s another photo, showing Invergordon in its beautiful highland setting: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-X
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the park and the lake
MORNING AT GULL LAKE, ASPEN BEACH PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA
My wife and I camped at this park and I was up early to capture a spectacular sunrise along the lake shore. The clouds added wonderful drama to the scene and made it worth leaving significant space in the composition for the sky.
Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter
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Urban landscapes: the soaring lines of worship
ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, IRELAND
During our European cruise ship vacation, I had most of a day to myself to roam through downtown Dublin and make pictures. Finding the city’s cathedrals was at the top of my list and one look at this photo tells you why.
I was truly blessed to be permitted to use my tripod, since a long exposure was required to capture this dimly lit scene. There wasn’t a lot of colour here, so I processed the jpeg in black-and-white.
Here’s another scene, in colour, from the same cathedral: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-ZK.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Urban landscapes: the drying nets
HOWTH HARBOUR, IRELAND
During our European cruise vacation, my wife and I did an excursion out of Dublin. We had a brief stop in the charming town of Howth, which is a Dublin suburb but also a working fishing village. I was intrigued by all the drying nets and the view of the distant shore, so I moved around until finding this composition.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter
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Urban landscapes: a perfect sailing day
BOATS IN THE HARBOUR, ST. PETER PORT, CHANNEL ISLANDS
During our May, 2017 cruise ship vacation, I had one glorious day of sunshine to photograph this charming little city, which is the capital of Guernsey Island. Guernsey is in the English Channel, off the coast of France. It’s part of a group called the Channel Islands. Guernsey is a British crown dependency, but not part of the United Kingdom.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: morning on the ocean
MORNING SUNSHINE ON THE CARIBBEAN PRINCESS, GUERNSEY ISLAND
After our first night aboard this cruise ship, I was up before sunrise to capture the new day as we entered St. Peter Port, capital of Guernsey Island off the coast of France. This is a very contrasty scene, so I did a lot of work in Photoshop to darken the sky & sun, while also making the cruise ship lighter.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter
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Natural landscapes: the flowers of May
SPRING TRILLIUM, PRESQUILE PROVINCIAL PARK, ONTARIO
The trillium, in all its colours (including purple and pink) is the official flower of this Canadian province. It flourishes all over the southern half of the province, including this park on the shore of Lake Ontario east of Toronto.
Nikon D50, tripod.
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Rural landscapes: the kingdom of turbines
ROAD TO THE TURBINES, NEAR FORT MACLEOD, ALBERTA
The windy prairie landscape of southern Alberta is home to many hundreds of turbines. Lots of people don’t care for them, but I find them to be a fascinating photo subject (here’s another picture of turbines from the same general region: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-qE). In this scene, they play a supporting role to the dramatic light and shadows of a spring evening.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, possibly a graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Urban landscapes: the emerging light of dawn
ST. PATRICK’S ISLAND BRIDGE AND BOW RIVER, CALGARY, ALBERTA
This pedestrian bridge, just east of Calgary’s downtown, is beautifully lit and a source of many interesting photos. This pre-dawn view required a very long exposure, which was ideal to smooth out the water and highlight the reflections. The giant art installation on the left side of the bridge is called “Bloom”.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Rural landscapes: the wagon wheel of spring
RANCH ENTRANCE NEAR NANTON, ALBERTA
Couldn’t possibly name the road I was on, or the exact location, when I made this photo on an April morning. My photo trips often involve wandering down any old road that strikes my fancy, knowing at some point it’s going to hit a larger road that will take me back to civilization. 🙂
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter
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Natural landscapes: the misty mornings of spring
APRIL SUNRISE AT PRESQUILE PROVINCIAL PARK, ONTARIO
One of my favourite Ontario photo locales, Presquile protects a beautiful mix of Lake Ontario beach, forest, dunes and extensive wetlands; a particularly misty morning made this photo possible at a wetlands boardwalk. Here’s another picture from the same morning: https://wp.me/p2ccTX-Et.
Nikon D50, tripod.
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Rural landscapes: those fitful moments of spring
SNOW AND SPRING POND, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
Spring is a fitful beast in southern Alberta; one day it’s sunny and the next is cold and snowy. I found this gorgeous prairie scene, only 10 minutes’ drive from my house, just after sunrise. There’s a lot going on here, but I think the strong diagonal thrust of the near pond shore and the fence help pull everything together. I also like the near-far perspective provided by the wide-angle lens.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, probably a graduated density filter on the sky.
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