Natural landscapes: the glory(?) of spring snow
SPRING SUNRISE, KANANASKIS COUNTRY, ALBERTA
Yes, this photograph was made in April. In the Canadian Rocky Mountains, snow is a possibility any month of the year, though it’s not likely during July and August. You’re looking at Hwy. 40 in Kananaskis, a region that’s little known to tourists (they go for the world-renowned Banff National Park), but a favourite destination for Albertans. The peak is The Wedge. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the slow rush of spring
APRIL ICE, DUFFINS CREEK, GREENWOOD CONSERVATION AREA, AJAX, ONTARIO
Spring is a fitful season in many parts of Canada, appearing to arrive one day, then vanishing the next. But that creates wonderful icy scenes like this, captured in one of my favourite photo locales east of Toronto (Canada’s largest city). Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the rush of waves
GREENPOINT, PACIFIC RIM NATIONAL PARK, BRITISH COLUMBIA
This stunning coastline is along the west coast of Vancouver Island, a glorious windswept part of Canada that is simply stunning. My wife & I were there in April 2012 and I found this high vantage point to show you a memorable vista. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: when old & new collide
AWAITING DAYBREAK, NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO
There wasn’t going to be a sunrise on this cloudy spring day, but ‘blue hour’ – the 45 minutes before daybreak – turned out to be a fine time for a long exposure of this historic waterworks and the gigantic hotels on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. I used a darkening filter on Nikon D90 in order to get as long an exposure as possible and blur the water. Of course, an exposure this long required a tripod, too.
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Rural landscapes: spring at the church
BALLS FALLS CONSERVATION AREA, JORDAN, ONTARIO
Balls Falls was established by Jacob Ball, a United Empire Loyalist (a supporter of Britain) who left the United States after the American revolution. In 1783, he was granted land in Niagara, upon which a village was eventually started. The acreage, which includes a pair of glorious waterfalls, was bought by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority in 1962 and turned into a conservation area.
It’s a great place for nature and rural photography; in this case, I had a great sky and slanting early-morning light to work with and it beautifully highlighted the historic church. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter and possibly a graduated density filter on the sky.
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Natural landscapes: the photographer’s shadow
SPRING MORNING IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS, ALBERTA
I spotted this giant boulder while driving on a remote country road in southwest Alberta and knew it would provide for several useful compositions. I didn’t expect to be part of them, but when I looked through the viewfinder, I saw the shadow would make a good secondary point of interest after your eyes wandered over the rock. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: the Balsam birch
TREE TRUNKS, BALSAM LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK, ONTARIO
The morning was cloudy and not conducive to photos with strong lighting, so I went looking for something else and found this intriguing grouping of tree trunks along a forest laneway. I made photos with and without a flash, but the former made for a more striking result. Do you agree? Nikon D90, flash, tripod.
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Urban landscapes: the surprise of spring snow
SKYLINE AND PRINCE’S ISLAND POND, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Ah, March. It can bring all manner of weather to this western Canadian city. I wasn’t complaining about this snowfall, though, since it left ponds open to photogenic reflections like this in Prince’s Island, a 20-hectare oasis squeezed between the downtown core and Bow River. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: blue hour glory
Wildlife: a box and a bird
SWALLOW AND BIRD BOX, SOUTH OF CALGARY, ALBERTA
The comings and goings of this swallow and its mate were so regular that I had the luxury of setting up the Nikon D90 and telephoto lens on a tripod, then simply changing the focus as each bird landed. I was able to make a variety of pictures this way and picked this one to show you.
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Urban landscapes: The leaving of ice
SPRING ON THE BOW RIVER, CALGARY, ALBERTA
This river runs through the centre of this western Canadian city and that’s where I made this exposure in the ‘blue hour’ of pre-sunrise light, standing on a bridge while traffic whizzed by. The lights on the opposite shore add a nice touch, don’t you think? Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Urban landscapes: The light of night
COAST CAPITAL SAVINGS, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
I love wandering around downtowns from blue hour right into night. It must have been around 10 p.m. when I found this beautifully lit building on Canada’s west coast. Thank goodness I had a tripod; a long exposure was required to capture this scene and without a tripod, you’d be looking at a very shaky, blurry picture. Nikon D90.
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Rural landscapes: the peace of day’s end
BARN AND FARM BIRDS, PICKERING, ONTARIO
One of those late winter afternoons in 2007 when I was roaming around unremembered country roads northwest of Toronto (Canada’s largest city) when I discovered this utterly charming scene. I walked several feet in from the road, set up the tripod and made several compositions while the geese and hens ignored me. Nikon D50.
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Natural landscapes: steps of ice
LATE WINTER AT HEALEY FALLS, NEAR PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO
A 150-metre wide series of limestone steps makes up Healey Falls, over which flows the Trent River as it makes its way to Lake Ontario east of Toronto (Canada’s largest city). There are hundreds of steps of varying thickness here, so I had a great time roaming pretty much anywhere I wanted to find and photograph various combinations of rock, water and ice. Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Rural landscapes: the leaving of light
SETTING WINTER SUNLIGHT, UXBRIDGE, ONTARIO
This clean, simple scene definitely lent itself to photography, especially with the rosy hue of sunset casting lovely blue shadows. This area of Uxbridge, a town northeast of Toronto (Canada’s largest city) is near the tiny hamlet of Leaskdale, where Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote many of her beloved novels. Nikon D50, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: a sunrise moment
CASTLE MOUNTAIN AND BOW RIVER, BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA
A classic scene from the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains. I clambered down through waist-high snow to get to the river’s edge and make this photograph with a Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter and two-stop graduated density filter (to darken the sky). The shaft of sunrise light was an extraordinary bonus.
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Rural landscapes: frost and snow
FENCEPOST AND TIRE, NEAR CALGARY, ALBERTA
It wasn’t *that* cold, but never mind the temperature. The biting prairie wind made it seem absolutely frigid. I loved this section of countryside just north of my home in western Canada, but after 15 minutes’ outside the car, I was done. Fortunately, that brief time was enough to make this satisfying photo and more. One of my biggest challenges here (besides the cold) was getting a high enough viewpoint to put the tire below the horizon.
Nikon D90, tripod.
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Urban landscapes: the clash of light and shadow
INTACT AND FIRST CANADIAN PLACE, CALGARY, ALBERTA
The Intact Insurance building (on the left) has already yielded one very satisfying image (you can see it here: http://wp.me/p2ccTX-1O) and I’ve long wanted to capture the cool angles and light hues of the 41-storey First Canadian Place. I didn’t realize these buildings were so close together until this photo trip; when I did, I figured some sort of combination would work well. Was I right?
Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Cascades of bubbles
MORE ICE BUBBLES, ABRAHAM LAKE, ALBERTA
My third trip to this amazing man-made lake, in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, produced this image and many more during four hours wandering around the ice. Unlike the first trip, I didn’t fall even once! Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: whispering winter water
DUFFINS CREEK, GREENWOOD CONSERVATION AREA, AJAX, ONTARIO
If you check out this website regularly, you’ll know that Greenwood and Duffins Creek are among my favourite subjects. Photos like this tell you why. I lived close to Greenwood for several years and it was my ‘go-to’ spot whenever interesting weather came through. Nikon D50, tripod, polarizing filter.
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