Natural landscapes: too snowy for a picnic
WINTER POND, PETAWAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
I had to push through all kinds of knee-high snow to find this viewpoint. The open section is actually quite long, but my telephoto lens compressed it. Petawawa is home to one of Canada’s biggest military bases. The Petawawa River (which is the source of this pond) is very picturesque and brings me back to it whenever I visit the area. P.S. I went with black and white because there is very little colour in this scene.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Rural landscapes: under a winter sky
GRAIN SILOS NEAR CARMANGAY, ALBERTA, CANADA
These metal silos are a wonderful shape to work with, especially in a group with a strong sky and no other visual distractions. That’s what I found on a winter day south of the western Canadian city of Calgary. I have another photo where the silos are more prominent, but I like this silo/sky/field balance better.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the barn & the hills
BARN AND SWEETGRASS HILLS, NEAR MILK RIVER, ALBERTA, CANADA
I must have spent an hour working all the photographic angles on this wonderful old building surrounded by nothing but flat prairie in the deep south of Alberta. For this scene, I used a telephoto lens to pull the distant Sweetgrass Hills (in the United States) closer.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: cascade of ice
ROADSIDE ICE ALONG THE ICEFIELDS PARKWAY, JASPER NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
I must have spent at least a half-hour along this little stretch of road, ignoring the soaring Canadian Rocky Mountain peaks nearby to concentrate on all the shapes and lines in this nearly abstract scene. Pretty cool, eh? 🙂
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: too early for a picnic?
LOWER KANANASKIS LAKE, PETER LOUGHEED PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA
I loved how snow had overtaken so much of this shoreline picnic table in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. But it needed something else to make everything work. Turned out that someone was ME. 🙂 Always glad I wear my read ski jacket when going on photo trips; it’s a great colour to add to pictures.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: almost black-and-white
PEACE ON THE OTTAWA RIVER, PETAWAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
The Ottawa River serves as the border between the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. I visited this spot on a silent, overcast winter day and found outstanding combinations of snow, water and reflections. Hard to believe this is a colour photo, eh?
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Natural landscapes: encounter with frost
FROST AND SHADOW, PETER LOUGHEED PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA
As I drove through this park in the Canadian Rockies, there were all kinds of roadside photo opportunities with frosty winter vegetation. The challenge was to find something with an uncluttered, yet dramatic background. How did I do here?
(This park is named after one of Alberta’s most popular premiers, who led the province between 1970 and 1984.)
Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens.
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Urban landscapes: Merry Christmas from Alberta
PRINCES ISLAND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I had a great time finding all kinds of perspectives, near & far, to photograph this Christmas-decorated bridge in the western Canadian city of Calgary. The white light strings are blurry because this is a long exposure (30 seconds) and there was a fitful breeze.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: flowing through wonder
WAPTA CREEK, YOHO NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Believe it or not, this stunning scene is just 30 metres from the Trans Canada Highway as it runs through the Canadian Rockies. Tractor Trailers were roaring along the road behind me as I precariously balanced in the snow to make this exposure. Nikon D7100, Tripod, neutral density (darkening) filter.
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Natural landscapes: scaling the falls
WINTER AT MONTMORENCY FALLS, NEAR QUEBEC CITY, CANADA/
HIVER de la chute Montmorency, près de Québec, CANADA
This supremely impressive waterfall, at 84 metres (275 ft.) high and 46 metres (150 ft.) wide, is the highest in the province and 30 metres (98 ft.) higher than Niagara Falls. As you can see, lighting conditions were far from ideal, with the plunging water in the shade and harsh light on the ice/snow mound. A lot of Photoshopping was required to balance the lighting and correct the strange colour cast that happened when the original 2004 slide was transferred to CD.
Montmorency, named by famed French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1613, is part of a larger park that includes key battle areas between the French and British in 1759. Ya, this little area is soaked in history that predates Canadian confederation (in 1867).
Nikon FM2 film camera, Velvia slide film, tripod and probably a polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: in a world of ice
WINTER AT SPENCER CREEK, NEAR HAMILTON, ONTARIO
This is the view from the top of Webster’s Falls, one of the most popular waterfalls in the Canadian province of Ontario. The water spray creates a fantastical world of ice and frost at the bottom. I was heading to stairs down into the gorge when I spotted this person making his (her?) way through the ice formations. Makes for a pretty cool photo, eh? 🙂
Nikon D50, tripod
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Rural landscapes: travelling the prairies
ROAD NEAR PINCHER CREEK, ALBERTA
I rarely upload black and white photos to this website, but this one struck me as being worth viewing. There’s a lot of empty sky in the jpeg that I cropped out.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter
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Rural landscapes: road through the foothills
PRAIRIES AND FOOTHILLS NEAR LONGVIEW, ALBERTA, CANADA
I used a telephoto lens to make the peaks seem bigger and compress the sense of distance. Imagine living in this landscape? Wow.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: frozen fall
TROLL FALLS, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA
It was -15 C when I visited this waterfall in the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains. I’d hoped to find photographable combinations of ice and falling water, but as you can see I was too late. Still, it was a fun visit, especially when I put myself in the photo. 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter. (You can see a mostly black-and-white version of this photo here: http://bitly.com/TrollFalls)
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Natural landscapes: road through winter glory
ROADSIDE ICE FLOW, JASPER NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA
The glorious Icefields Parkway has an endless array of photographic opportunities as it spans the Canadian Rockies between Banff and Jasper national parks. I went for something a little more subtle in this scene, highlighting the mix of shadow and sunlight on frozen water flows along the road.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the skies of November
PRAIRIE GRAIN FIELD, NEAR AIRDRIE, ALBERTA
The northern sky was becoming progressively more dramatic, but I had nothing to use as an anchor for your eyes. Then I saw these weathered grain storage buildings. Paydirt! 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Rural landscapes: road to the mountains
LANDSCAPE NEAR PINCHER CREEK, ALBERTA, CANADA
Have I ever mentioned how much I love driving to the south end of this province and just *being* with the glorious landscapes? This is one of them and that’s the Rocky Mountains on the horizon. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: welcoming you downstairs
PALLISER SQUARE, CALGARY, ALBERTA
This downtown complex in western Canada is one of my favourite photo locales. Not only are there wonderful spaces and escalators to capture, the security guards are friendly and let me set up my tripod and make pictures in peace. Trust me, this is *exceedingly* rare in office buildings. (Here’s another example of Palliser Square’s beauty: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-uK)
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: glorious splendour
AUTUMN AT MORAINE LAKE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
I’m blessed to live less than three hours’ drive from one of the most spectacular scenes on this planet. Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks is so stunning, it was for many years depicted on the back of the Canadian 20-dollar bill. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Vermillion and the falls
NUMA FALLS, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
In the Canadian Rockies, this is a great place to visit before the snow becomes so deep that it’s nearly impossible to move around without snowshoes. In November, the water of Vermillion River hasn’t frozen over so amazing scenes like this are possible to photograph.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, darkening filter (to make a long exposure possible; that’s what makes the water silky).
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