Rural landscapes: the light of a winter afternoon
HAYROLLS IN THE SNOW, NEAR COCHRANE, ALBERTA
Yes, it was as cold as it looks. But I love hay rolls and I love serious winter conditions. Both are abundant in this scene, in the western Canadian province of Alberta. Look carefully and you’ll see the epic Canadian Rocky Mountains on the horizon. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: flowing through the snow
WINTER AT BIG HILL SPRINGS PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA
This tiny park, created to preserve this spring-fed stream and the myriad of waterfalls it created, is one of my favourite photo locales near my home in Calgary. There’s always some water open, no matter how cold the weather, and I often find wonderful ice creations to photograph. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: windswept
ALONG THE SHORES OF WATERTON LAKE, ALBERTA
Waterton Lakes National Park, tucked into the southwest corner of this western Canadian province, is definitely one of the windiest places in Canada. While camping there a few years ago, the constant buffeting wind pushed in our dining tent. In fact, our tent trailer shook so much that we couldn’t sleep well and went home early.
This photograph was made on a winter day trip where I was pretty much the only person around. The light was beautiful and I liked the wind carvings in the skiffs of snow along the lake (which rarely freezes because of the wind). Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the meeting of peaks and prairies
HAY ROLLS AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, NEAR HIGH RIVER, ALBERTA
A lot more snow has fallen since this scene was photographed in late November. But I still like the bits of white that dot the field. The big telephoto squeezed the distance between the field and the Rocky Mountain front range. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter 70-300 mm. lens.
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Natural landscapes: the last light of day
FROSTY GRASS NEAR COCHRANE, ALBERTA
This picture is all about capturing the warm golden-hour sun against a cool blue background. I’m also a fan of diagonal lines and this group of grass fits the bill perfectly. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: enduring the cold
PETAWAWA RIVER, PETAWAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
Oh, man. It was cold that morning. We’re talking -30 cold. So cold I just didn’t want to take off my gloves long enough to put on darkening filters and go for a long exposure to make the water silky. No, I hurredly set up the tripod, put a polarizing filter on my 18-70-mm. lens, made a few exposures, then walked hurriedly back to the car. All along that return trip, I kept flexing my fingers to try and keep some feeling in them.
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Natural landscapes: going with the flow
WINTER AT RIDEAU FALLS, OTTAWA, ONTARIO
Photographed in Canada’s capital city, this dusk exposure was very loooong, thus the silky flow to the flowing Rideau River as it plunged down into the Ottawa River. This beautiful, natural spot is surrounded on three sides by the buildings and traffic of downtown Ottawa.
Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: winter in monotone
TWELVE MILE CREEK, NEAR ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO
This is a colour photo, believe it or not. But overcast conditions produced this result, which I like because of the soft lines of snow and the diagonal slash of the water. A highlight of this photo outing was my booted foot plunging through the ice and producing a cringe-inducing “soaker”. Nikon FM2 film camera, Velvia slide film, tripod.
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Rural landscapes: Frosty beef
COWS IN THE COLD, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
Just a touch of weak winter sunlight added a bit of ‘pop’ to this fabulously frigid scene barely 15 minutes from my house in this western Canadian city. I positioned the Nikon D90 and tripod very carefully in order to have the fence posts in a good position with the rest of the scene.
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Urban landscapes: view from the top
SKYLINE AT DUSK, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I went up to the top of the Calgary Tower to photograph this western Canadian city at dusk. It was a lot harder than I imagined, simply because wherever I went, all the lights inside the viewing level of the tower reflected in the window I was trying to photograph through. So I ended up standing in weird positions, arms held askew, trying to block the light while pushing the shutter. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: when water meets frigid air
WINTER AT LAKE MINNEWANKA, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
Thanks to a power dam at the west end, this lake is the longest in the national parks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. But that’s not what brought me to this spot on an insanely cold (-32) morning. It was the juxaposition of boathouse, fog off the bit of open water, and the towering shape of Mount Inglismaldie in the background. The lack of wind that morning made it possible to make several useful compositions before I scrambled back inside the warm comfort of the van.
May you have a blessed Christmas with at least a bit of knowledge of what the day is really all about. Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: waiting to freeze
NUMA FALLS, KOOTNAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
I made this photograph in November, after winter’s arrival in the Canadian Rocky Mountains but before freeze-up. This location is tremendously snowy and almost always offers interesting photo opportunities as the Vermillion River flows through very cool rock formations. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the clash of blue and white
SKIING AT MONT TREMBLANT, QUEBEC
Photographed many, many years ago at one of the premier ski resorts in Eastern Canada. I recall it was a bitterly cold day, but warmer at the top of the mountain than the bottom. I took my ancient, long-departed film camera on the ski outing and hand-held this composition; so glad one of the skiers was wearing bright red. Nikon FM2 or Yashica film camera, ASA 100 negative film.
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Natural landscapes: when cold & fog mix
WINTER AT TWO JACK LAKE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
It was an insane -32 degrees when I made this photograph in the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains. Despite the cold, I was intrigued at how distant Mount Rundle was wrapped in fog. I also liked the angle of shadow across the snow; I hope it makes for an interesting composition from near to far. Nikon D7100, tripod, two-stop hard-edge graduated density (darkening) filter, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the winter stream
SINCLAIR CREEK, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Just a few kilometres further east, this creek, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is gloriously frozen over. But at this altitude, in -16 degree conditions, I was presented with a delightful mix of flowing water and ice formations. Took almost an hour before I was ready to leave. 🙂 Nikon D7100, polarizing filter, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: sunrise spectacle
WINTER AT NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO
It was a bitterly cold morning when I ventured out of our hotel room and down to the falls. But the sun was shining and there was nobody around. So I could park my car wherever I liked and spend as much time as I liked to make pleasing compositions like this.
Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most famous natural attractions and regularly attracts millions of visitors, especially in summer when you can venture down to the falls at a ridiculous hour (like 2 a.m.) and find all kinds of people. Nikon D50, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: capturing the moment
A TOURIST MOMENT AT LAKE LOUISE, BANFF NATIONAL PARK
I liked the dramatic light and glorious blue Alberta winter sky in this scene, captured at one of the most photographed lakes in North America. Hope I came up with something reasonably original. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: Where peaks and prairies meet
GRAZING NEAR WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
The landscapes near this national park in Western Canada are always impressive. I found this scene after spending several hours photographing inside the park, which protects a unique area where prairies run right up to the mountains (i.e. no transitional foothills). Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: church in the mist
ST. HENRY’S CHURCH, TWIN BUTTE, ALBERTA
This historic Roman Catholic parish, completed in 1908, has a spectacular setting in the rolling prairies near the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Waterton Lake National Park. I’ve photographed it several times; this occasion may be the most evocative.
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: grasses of winter
ICE AND WILD GRASS, GREENWOOD CONSERVATION AREA, AJAX, ONTARIO
This photograph goes back to 2007, when I was concentrating on this tranquil area east of Toronto (Canada’s largest city) for a portfolio book project. This is one of those scenes that you don’t see until you look through a telephoto lens and notice how well the foreground and background work together. Nikon D50, 80-200 mm. lens, tripod.
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