Natural landscapes: a lovely spring morning
THE WEDGE, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA, CANADA
Kananaskis Country isn’t nearly as well known as nearby Banff National Park, but it’s a glorious area that Albertans have pretty much to ourselves. This scene was captured with a big telephoto lens on a glorious spring morning. Yeah, spring takes its time arriving in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: patterns of light
SNOW ON GRAVEL PILES, GOLDEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
With a covering of new snow, these very unremarkable piles of gravel became amazing examples of abstract art. I spent a half-hour exploring all the possibilities, aided by relatively soft sunshine that kept the shadows from becoming too harsh. Nikon D7100, 70-300 mm. lens, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: contrast of light & shadow
WINTER MORNING, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA, CANADA
I don’t know the name of this gloriously lit peak, but the contrast between it and the shadowed, snowy landscape was too good to resist. The trees on the left serve as a strong secondary point of interest.
Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter, graduated density (darkening) filter on the top half.
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Urban landscapes: the curves of light
“FLAMES”, CALGARY, ALBERTA
The metal sculpture, in front of one of Calgary’s many skyscrapers, is two licks of stylized flames. As I walked past, I wondered how the light would bounce around the inside parts of the flames.
As you can see, the light created an amazing abstract composition, especially when I eliminated all traces of the outside world. Tried a few pictures with fill-flash and was pleased by the results, but didn’t process them because the flash left a shadow.
Nikon D7100, 70-300 mm. lens, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: winter in the canyon
VERMILLION RIVER, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Most people come to this spot to look the other way, at Vermillion River as it flows over Numa Falls. It’s a great scene that you can see here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-nv.
On this occasion, I looked the other way and appreciated the snowy canyon and surrounding forest. It looks very, very wild and wintery.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Wildlife: Alberta lawn ornaments
MALE ELK, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
A long telephoto lens was handy to stay far enough away from these majestic (if sometimes dangerous) animals to keep them from getting spooked by my presence. In fact, I had the time to carefully ‘arrange’ compositions like this, where the horns of one animal frame another. Nikon D50.
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Rural landscapes: waiting for spring?
OLD TRUCK, SOUTH OF HIGH RIVER, ALBERTA
Don’t use the flash on your camera when you’re outside in daylight? This photo is an example of why you might re-think that notion. Using the flash during daylight is called “fill flash” and in this case, it lit up the foreground while allowing a fast shutter speed that left the distant sky to go appropriately dark and dramatic. Having snow on the truck hood really helped the photo, too.
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: the curve of shadow & light
FROZEN STREAM, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA, CANADA
At one point, the temperature on the thermometer inside my van said it was -40 outside. Yikes. But there was no wind, so I could tolerate spending about 10 minutes outside the van working with this amazing example of God’s artistry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens. (A similar view of this spot, in colour, can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1lrNrK3)
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Urban landscapes: Telus everything
TELUS BUILDINGS AT SUNRISE, EDMONTON, ALBERTA
While attending a weekend conference in the capital city of this western Canadian province, I had time to get up early and brave the winter cold to check out the architectural possibilities. The all-glass structure at the base of these towers made for a perfect complement and contrast. I did a fair bit of manoeuvring to get the buildings positioned correctly with each other.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Rocky Mountain sunset
SUNSET ON THE MITCHELL RANGE, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Yes, it was cold. Quite cold. But not so cold that, when I saw this stunning reflection in a quiet section of the Kootenay River, I couldn’t be persuaded to stop. A few minutes of careful walking on the snow brought me to the water’s edge, where I could set up the tripod in peace and fiddle around with a graduated density (darkening) filter on the top half of the scene until I had the picture I wanted. Pretty amazing, eh? 🙂
Nikon D7100, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: winter shoreline
WINTER AT LAKE LOUISE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
This world-renow
ned site in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is a delight to visit on winter mornings, because I often have the place to myself.
No busloads of tourists, no gossipy conversations, no dogs, no nothing. Just me and God’s incredible creation.
As you can tell, this was that kind of morning. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: barn face
BARN AND SNOW, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
This beautiful old structure is just 15 minutes’ drive from my home. In that short time, I enter the quietly awesome Canadian prairies and find structures like this. I made a similar photograph more than 30 years ago in my birthplace in the Canadian province of Quebec. You can see it here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-dI Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: prairie sunrise
A FEW MOMENTS OF LIGHT, NEAR BEISEKER, ALBERTA, CANADA
The sunrise didn’t last long before getting sucked into a vortex of clouds, but I managed to make a half-dozen memorable exposures during that brief time. A big telephoto lens helped me isolate this tree against the stunning sky.
Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens, enhancing filter.
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Urban landscapes: blue-hour bridge
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER BOW TRAIL, CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
This bridge spans one of the major highways into the downtown core of this western Canadian city. I went there to make long-exposure pictures of the traffic and downtown skyline just before dawn. After doing, that, I turned the camera onto the bridge itself. This twisted perspective crates (I hope…) a more dynamic photo. Do you agree? Nikon D7100, 35-70 mm. lens, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: valley view
COLUMBIA RIVER VALLEY, RADIUM, BRITISH COLUMBIA
The are lots of amazing vistas over this vast valley in the westernmost province in Canada. I chose this one because if you look very carefully, you can see two bighorn sheep in the open meadow. Nikon D7100, tripod, 17-300 mm. lens, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: epic silence
OTTAWA RIVER, PETAWAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
Love the silence and peace of this grey winter day along the border between the Canadian provinces of Ontario & Quebec. There was so little colour in this scene that I converted it to B&W and it actually works better this way. Nikon D7100, tripod, graduated density filter (to make the bland sky darker).
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Rural landscapes: wagons west!
WAGON AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE, NEAR WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
Not sure I could get a better setting for this antique wagon. It was just a matter of setting up the tripod, Nikon D90 and polarizing filter, then zooming in ’til the scene looked right. What an epic landscape!
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Natural landscapes: shadings of light
ABSTRACT SHAPES, GOLDEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Believe it it or not, these are just piles of dirt in a tiny Canadian Rocky Mountain community. Normally, I wouldn’t even give them a second look. But covered with fresh snow and good morning light? Well, I spent about 45 minutes exploring all the shadings of light and the amazing abstract lines. Definitely the highlight of a photo day throughout B.C. Nikon D7100, tripod, 70-300 mm. lens.
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Urban landscapes: the view DOWN
NINTH AVENUE FROM THE CALGARY TOWER
The 627-foot Calgary Tower was once the tallest structure in this western Canadian city, but that was many years ago.
Today, six buildings are taller, but the tower is still the only open-to-the-public way to look over the downtown core.
After making some standard views of the downtown (you can see one here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-nE), I went for something different with this composition. Nikon D7100, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: The flow of winter
WINTER ON THE BOW RIVER, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
There’s a bridge over this wonderful river in the Canadian Rocky Mountains that I’ve often stopped at to make photographs. On this snowy morning, I stood on the bridge, saw the angle of snowy ice below and knew there was a picture to be had. Given that it was a cloudy day, one key to making this picture satisfactory was keeping the sky *out* of the composition. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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