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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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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