Natural landscapes: Autumn meadow
HILLSDALE MEADOW AND PILOT MOUNTAIN, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
The Canadian Rocky Mountains don’t get the same range of colours as central and eastern Canada, but they certainly do get intense yellows and oranges. And you can’t go wrong combining them with snowy peaks and blue skies. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: a still autumn evening
LAC PHILIPPE, GATINEAU PARK, QUEBEC
Encouraged by amazing photos I’d seen of this park, near Ottawa (Canada’s capital city), I travelled from my then-home near Toronto to this park in 2003 and found great weather and glorious lakes like this. Nikon FM2 film camera, Velvia slide film, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: when leaves & water merge
AUTUMN MANY YEARS AGO, MARKHAM, ONTARIO
I went ‘way back in the archives to the early 1980s and one of the first autumn photos I did that was worth saving. This pastel-hued collage was made in a pool along a woodland stream just north of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. The grainy look is ’cause I was working with a scanned a 3×5-inch paper photo.
Nikon FM2 film camera, probably Kodak negative film (believe it or not), tripod.
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Natural landscapes: rock, water and leaves
AUTUMN ON GRINDSTONE CREEK, HAMILTON, ONTARIO
Grindstone Creek is one of many natural gems in an area that’s not known for them – the Hamilton, Ontario region, on the west end of Lake Ontario. I planned an autumn trip there a few years back, hoping for lots of colourful leaves on the rocks. Guess my timing was good, eh? 🙂 Nikon D50, Tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the road to autumn
EVENING LIGHT, HWY. 68, SOUTHWEST OF CALGARY, ALBERTA
As I recall, the weather began cloudy, but improved steadlily through the day. By the time the beautiful warm light of evening had arrived, conditions were pretty close to perfect for photographs like this in the Canadian Rocky Mountain foothills. So my photo trip went from underwhelming to spectacular. 🙂 Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Wildlife: Down from the mountaintops
MOUNTAIN GOATS, JASPER NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
Mountain goats tend to be shy – in fact, in all my years photographing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, this is only the third time I’ve made pictures of these wonderful creatures.
In this case, a group of a dozen goats and little ones were hanging out along the Icefields Parkway. I must have made 50 or more pictures during the half-hour we hung out. It was amazing. 🙂
Nikon D90, 70-300 mm. lens.
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Natural landscapes: abstract water
LIVINGSTON FALLS DETAIL, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA
The light was becoming harsh, but it still wasn’t hitting the rushing waters of this sloping waterfall in the glorious Canadian Rockies. I noticed how the water was reflecting sunlight hitting the far shore and saw possibilities for abstract compositions. So I zoomed in very close to the rushing water and went for a long exposure. Definitely one of my most creative waterfall photos. 🙂 Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Boating weather?
EVENING AT GULL LAKE, ALBERTA
My wife and I camped at this lake, in the central part of this western Canadian province, a few years ago. The lake is nothing special, but in the right conditions, it became the source of many satisfactory compositions like this one. Look carefully at the clouds above the boat….see all the nasty flies? Nikon D90, tripod and, possibly, fill-flash on the boat.
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Rural landscapes: badlands morning
THE GLOW OF SUNRISE, ROSEDALE, ALBERTA
The village of Rosedale is deep in the heart of the badlands in this western Canadian province. I was high on a badlands hill making photos when I saw how the first rays of the day turned the hamlet into a visual delight. So I quickly put a 70-300 mm. lens on my Nikon D90 and made some exposures. During processing, I added blue and removed red in the sky to make it a more visually pleasing contrast.
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Rural landscapes: epic in the prairies
THE VIEW WEST, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
Doesn’t this strike you as a quietly epic scene? There’s dirt road on a big hill about 10 kilometres from my house where I love to stop and and look west to the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains. This scene was photographed during early summer, when there’s still snow on the peaks. I used a bit of a telephoto lens to draw closer to the cattle and make the mountains more prominent. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: dredging the harbour
MORNING AT THE LAKE, OSHAWA, ONTARIO
Sadly, this city of 150,000, just east of Toronto (Canada’s largest city) has never been known for its esthetic beauty. But there is a lot to appreciate there for anyone with a discerning eye – especially during the magical early morning hours.
I found this scene of a lone dredger and a tugboat at just the right location, with lights towering over the wharf extending out into Lake Ontario. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: summer on the prairies
MORNING SKY NEAR ROSEDALE, ALBERTA
The Canadian prairies near Drumheller, Alberta are full of unexpected moments of breathtaking glory. This was one of them, captured shortly after sunrise. A two-stop graduated density (darkening) filter was used to darken the epic sky and increase the drama. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: summer at Lake Louise
WILD DAISIES, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
Finding interesting compositions that avoid the usual cliches isn’t easy at Lake Louise, one of the most spectacular (and photographed) sites in North America (in case you’re wondering what it looks like during autumn, check out this photo: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-ck).
Lake Louise is even harder to photograph when you’re there during the harsh light of mid-day. But I spotted this slope covered in daisies and thought it might work with the background. And when I spotted those two people in the distance, I waited ’til they were between the trees before making an exposure. Nikon D90, fill-flash, polarizer.
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Natural landscapes: the light of morning
MOUNTAIN POND NEAR ABRAHAM LAKE, CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Among mountain photography enthusiasts in the Canadian province of Alberta, Abraham Lake is probably best known as the place to photograph amazing, weird ice bubbles every winter (here’s my example: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-gf).
I wanted to photograph there during summer, so my wife and I camped at Abraham Lake recently. Ironically, it was this nameless pond across the road from the lake that caught my attention.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter and probably a two-stop graduated density (darkening) filter on the top half.
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Natural landscapes: the tilt of land
MORNING ON THE GRAND RIVER, CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO
This 280-kilometre river flows through the southwestern part of this Canadian province, emptying into Lake Erie (one of the five Great Lakes shared by Canada and the United States). It’s a quietly picturesque river, especially in pleasing morning conditions like this with an interesting sky.
After doing a number of standard compositions, I wanted something a little different, so I twisted the Nikon D90 enough to seriously skew the horizon. Now it’s something quite beyond a postcard photo, in my opinion. Tripod, polarizing filter, two-stop hard-edge graduated density (darkening) filter on the sky.
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Urban landscapes: the clash of light and metal
INSIDE THE BOW, CALGARY, ALBERTA
I was a winner in a newspaper photo contest centred around this skyscraper which, for a few years, was the tallest building in Canada west of Toronto. (You can see that honoured photo here: http://bit.ly/10OSdqm).
One of the prizes was a VIP tour of the 58-storey, $1.4 billion structure. I wasn’t allowed to photograph inside anywhere but the lobby – but that was where all the amazing architecture is, so I was a happy camper. Wish I coulda used a tripod, but no dice there. Still, it was fun coming up with compositions like this. Nikon D90.
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Rural landscapes: a prairie sunrise
SUNRISE ON THE SLOUGH, NEAR BEISEKER, ALBERTA
On the same trip that produced this picture (http://wp.me/p2ccTX-kF), I found a pond along the country road in the glorious prairies of this western Canadian province. A two-stop, hard-edge graduated density (darkening) filter, used on the sky, was vital to darken the highlights and allow for some detail in the darker areas of the photo.
Nikon D90, tripod, enhancing filter (to emphasize the reds).
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Urban landscapes: architectural glory
ABSOLUTE CONDOS, MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO
Another photo from my euphoric hour in June photographing these amazing 40 and 50-storey award-winning towers in the Greater Toronto Area of Canada. The other condo on the right is part of the same complex, believe it or not. (Here’s another, very different take of the same buildings: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-k3). Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: fishing in grandeur
MORNING AT UPPER KANANASKIS LAKE, ALBERTA
This lake, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is a pretty big water body, so you’d think opportunities to photograph it in relatively still conditions would be rare. And yet, at least half the time I’ve visited, I’ve found amazing reflections waiting for me.
And when I saw the fishing dude, I had time, from a hiking trail well above him, to arrange a pretty decent composition. A few branches sticking into the bottom left corner were easily cloned out.
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter and, probably, a hard-edge graduated density filter on the top half.
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Natural landscapes: this is for real
CANOEISTS ON MORAINE LAKE,
BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
A mid-summer afternoon is usually a bland time for photography, given the harsh light of that time of day. The advantage, however, is popular areas have lots of people to include in compositions. That was the case at this astounding lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
I stood atop a rock pile at the end of the lake (once depicted on the Canadian 20-dollar bill) and used a big telephoto lens to isolate the canoe and trees. A polarizing filter was important to eliminate almost all the reflections and let you see the incredible colour of this lake. Nikon D90, tripod.
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