Rural landscapes: before the clouds ended the spectacle
SUNRISE AT TROUT LAKE, NEAR NORTH BAY, ONTARIO
My wife and I were staying at a bed-and-breakfast on the shore of this lake so, naturally, I was up early to see what could be accomplished photographically. As you can see, I was supremely rewarded. 🙂 (P.S. That is a silhouetted rock in the bottom foreground.)
Nikon D50, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: the river of autumn
DUCHESNAY CREEK, NORTH BAY, ONTARIO
One of my stepdaughters, who was attending university in this central Ontario city at the time, took my wife and me to see this creek (though it looks more like a river) back in 2006. The water level was high from recent rain, so I had a great time finding scenes like this (and like this: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-sg) to make long exposures and turn the water silky.
Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter
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Rural landscapes: autumn along the fenceline
EVENING LIGHT AND SHADOWS, CALGARY, ALBERTA
The Springbank area, on the western edge of this western Canadian city, is a mix of acreages and charming rural scenes like this. I got down low to push the fence higher into the photo and reduce the space occupied by the grass along the bottom right.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter
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Natural landscapes: the colours of Muleshoe
AUTUMN AT MULESHOE PICNIC AREA, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
The western Canadian province of Alberta doesn’t get the brilliant reds of the maple trees in central and eastern Canada, but we do pretty well with eye-popping yellows and oranges of poplars and aspens (seen here), along with larches that grow at higher altitudes. Besides the colour, what attracted me to this scene was the light-dark contrast between the trees and mountains.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: sentinels in the autumn forest
AUTUMN FOREST, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA
Kananaskis is a large mix of mountains and foothills in this western Canada province; it’s so large that I can’t remember exactly where I was in it when I found these coniferous trees surrounded by glorious autumn colour. That’s the great thing about making pictures in Alberta; as long as I have a vague idea where Calgary is, then I can just wander wherever I like to find scenes like this.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizer.
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Natural landscapes: encounter with colour
AUTUMN COLOURS, DEEP RIVER, ONTARIO
I was walking along a pathway at the marina in this charming little town when I spotted the grouping of leaves. Viewing it through a telephoto lens, I really liked the out-of-focus splash of colour on the bottom left; it seemed to serve as a soft counterpoint to the tack-sharp leaves. So I went with it. 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens, enhancing filter.
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Rural landscape: the silence of sunrise
DAWN AT PINE VALLEY RESORT, NEAR ROLPHTON, ONTARIO
The sign said all visitors should check in with the resort operator, but at 6:45 a.m. there’s no one available for that, so I enjoyed the silence along the shores of the Ottawa River and made pictures like this as the sun rose. I was finished and gone before a single person awoke. 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, enhancing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Natural landscapes: the artistry of decay
FERNS, NEAR ROLPHTON, ONTARIO
The country road in eastern Ontario was flanked with endless ferns in various states of summer glory or autumn decay. I spent a wonderful hour looking for compelling contrasts between those two states and this is one result.
Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens.
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Urban landscapes: standing tall
URBAN ART AND THE THE BOW, CALGARY, ALBERTA
The “Family of 
Man” art installation (essentially, giant people in a circle) is just east of The Bow, Calgary’s second tallest skyscraper.
I was fascinated by the contrast between the dark, elongated human shapes and the dramatic lines of the tower, so I spent a fun hour working various photographic juxtapositions. This is one of the better ones, IMHO. 🙂
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter
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Urban landscapes: the wharfs of dawn
SOUTH GLENMORE PARK, CALGARY, ALBERTA
As the dawn slowly approached, I knew I had the makings of a compelling photo here at Glenmore Reservoir, which is the largest water source for the western Canadian city of Calgary. I carefully positioned the tripod to put the wharfs at good relationship to each other and a looooong exposure smoothed out the rippling waters.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, enhancing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Natural landscapes: the pond and the sky
LATE SUMMER POND, CALGARY, ALBERTA
This long, unnamed pond borders a pa
ir of busy highways in this western Canadian city. It also has a “No Trespassing” sign where I ventured, so I stood on the shore, beside the sign, and composed this scene with remnants of an old fence.
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Urban landscapes: the soaring ceiling
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, IRELAND
Dublin has two glorious cathedrals and I made it a point to visit both during a whirlwind two-day stay. The light is always dim in these ancient structures, so I made a looong exposure to ensure a well-exposed and tack-sharp picture. The cathedral was founded sometime after 1028; construction of the present church happened in the 1180s and 1350s. Ya, it seems like everything in Europe is a thousand years old. (Check out St. Patrick’s, Dublin’s other stunning cathedral, here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-UI.)
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Urban landscapes: from the boat to the shore
MORNING AT INVERGORDON, SCOTLAND
I had a high vantage point to watch and photograph as the earliest tourists left our cruise ship to explore the Invergordon, a town of 4,000 on Scotland’s east coast. Many cruise ships visit here because the deep water port allows them to pull right up to the dock, rather than drop anchor off-shore and ferry passengers to shore. (You can see another Invergorden photo I made from the cruise ship that morning here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-Vf.)
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Rural landscapes: the fence & the farm
RANCH AND FIELDS, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
It took a fair bit of time and effort to line up this composition just so. I wanted the centre post of the fence in the horizontal middle of the scene, but had to give up symmetry in terms of the distance between the other posts and the borders of the photo. I also did a lot of height adjustments on my tripod to ensure there wasn’t too much empty fields between the homestead and the fence. In the end, the morning light makes this view truly impressive. All the development you see in the distant left is Calgary’s northern suburbs.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Urban landscapes: water to the river
RIDEAU CANAL AT DUSK, OTTAWA, ONTARIO
At the time (2012), I was having a tremendous amount of difficulties with my camera — I would replace it just a few months later — so it took a lot of processing work to make this gorgeous scene, in Canada’s capital city, presentable. The canal, which opened in 1832, stretches about 200 kilometres between Ottawa and Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River. Built primarily as a precaution in case of war with the United States, it is now used primarily for pleasure boating.
Nikon D90.
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Rural landscapes: the brooding morning
RURAL POND NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
By late summer, prairie sloughs in the southern half of this western Canadian province have often dried up, but this one was so big that I had lots to work with when I encountered it on a cloudy August morning. Shortly after I made this picture, the sky became such a dull, featureless grey that packed up my equipment and went home.
Nikon D7100, tripod, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Natural landscapes: deep goes the canyon
BIGHORN RIVER CANYON, NEAR NORDEGG, ALBERTA
I drove to this remote area in western Canada to photograph the sublime steps of Crescent Falls (which you can see here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-WP) and didn’t expect to find a stunning canyon as well. So I spent as much time here as at the falls. I walked along the grassy ridge you see at the top centre-left and hung out with a hoary marmot. 🙂
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Rural landscapes: evening in the valley
APPROACHING SUNSET IN GLENBOW RANCH PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA
One of the newest parks in this western Canadian province has a network of wonderful walking/cycling trails highlighting views like this, which overlooks the Bow River valley west of Calgary. When composing this picture, I took great care in balancing the left fencepost with the distant pathway. If the path was too close to the top of the post, it would have caused unconscious visual discomfort for some viewers.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: afternoon along the coast
GORSE AND COASTLINE, NORTHERN IRELAND
I had such a short window to make pictures after our tour bus stopped for lunch that I had no time to get the tripod out of the bus and concentrate on making the best possible composition. So I handheld the Nikon D7100, plus a graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky and came away with this picture. I’m pretty darn pleased. 🙂 In the distance is Portrush Golf Club. Gorse is the yellow bush in the foreground.
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Natural landscapes: the fenceline view
SUMMER POND NORTHWEST OF CALGARY, ALBERTA
The wind was still and the morning light was perfect. But the photo needed something…maybe a person? So I set the timer on the camera six times, then six times ran crazily down the hill to the fencepost before the camera made the exposure. This is the best of the bunch.
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