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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Natural landscapes: the sweetness of sunrise
MORNING LIGHT ON CHESTERMAN BEACH, TOFINO, BRITISH COLUMBIA
The west coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island contains some of the most stunning scenery in the entire country. I was able to get a high vista to record this scene just a short time after sunrise. See the mist in the distance?
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: cathedral of light
ALLEN LAMBERT GALLERIA, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
This glorious atrium, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is part of the Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto. It’s named after a Canadian banker.
I managed to make a few quick exposures like this using a tripod (there’s barely enough light to hand-hold a camera) before a security guard woke up and shooed me away. (You can see another amazing Canadian Calatrava design here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-tm).
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: the start of freeze-up
JOHNSON CREEK, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA
November is an ideal month for photographing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Freeze-up has begun, but there’s still open water in creeks and waterfalls to find excellent water-ice compositions. This creek flows out of Johnson Lake near the town of Banff. I usually visit it every winter to see what water-ice combinations I can photograph. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: encrusted
FROSTY ‘LANDSCAPE’, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA
Went back to 1997 for this photograph, made on slide film then scanned and processed with Photoshop Elements. Scenes like this are common during autumn in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Inevitably, they cause me to dirty my knees getting close-ups of an entirely new ‘landscape’. Nikon FM2 (long since retired).
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Natural landscapes: autumn pattern
LEAF ARRANGEMENT, DEEP RIVER, ONTARIO, CANADA
I liked this rock, but knew it needed something else to make it photo-worthy, so I grabbed nearby poplar leaves and made lots of random scatterings for compositions. Then I thought, what the heck, let’s do something a little more deliberate. What do you think?
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter
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Natural landscapes: all the hues of autumn
AUTUMN TREES IN ALGONQUIN PARK, ONTARIO, CANADA
Nothing particularly special about this 2005 photograph – I saw early morning light hitting the top half of this tree-mix and liked it. Out came the tripod and this composition is the result. All that said, Algonquin is truly a legendary (really!) place to witness the glory of autumn.
Nikon FM2 film camera, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the ‘consolation’ of autumn
AUTUMN AT CONSOLATION VALLEY, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
An easy hike from renowned Morain
e Lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, hikers are rewarded with two alpine lakes (Lower Consolation Lake can be seen here), a glacier hanging off Quadra Mountain (on the right) and adjacent Mt. Bident. The glowing orange is from larch trees on the slopes of Panorama Ridge.
This is a truly astounding part of God’s Banff National Park cathedral – even in the snow that started falling on our way back to the parking lot. 🙂
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Urban landscapes: Light before the daylight
BLUE HOUR AT TELUS SPARK, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Telus Spark is the science centre in this western Canada city. It’s beautiful inside and out. I especially like the funky modern signage (you can see my take on that sign here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-uw). In this case, a hint of approaching daylight added a nice blue touch to the angles and lights.
Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: bathed in evening light
AUTUMN AT LAKE OF TWO RIVERS, ALGONQUIN PARK, ONTARIO, CANADA
Algonquin, about three hours’ drive north of Toronto (Canada’s largest city) is one of Canada’s quintessential, legendary (yes, really!) autumn photo locations. I was blessed to visit it in 2005 on a camping trip. We froze overnight, but opening up the tent surrounded by the glory of autumn was definitely worth it.
This is another photo made on slide film, then put onto CD during processing. Lots of Photoshopping work was needed to make the jpeg close to why I stopped to make the picture.
Nikon FM2 film camera, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: below the ridge of colour
AUTUMN BARN NEAR OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO, CANADA
Photographed in 2005 on slide film and put onto CD during processing, this scene required a lot of processing work to make it this viewable. I turned all the barn wood and the cement foundation into black and white, then darkened the sky and added blue into the mix. All this brings the scene close to why I stopped and made the photo.
Nikon FM2 film camera, tripod, polarizing filter.
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