This is an early morning photo taken from our rear deck in Canmore. I was enjoying a first coffee for the day when I observed that the clouds were moving swiftly across the sky. It looked like a good opportunity to test a new photographic filter I had acquired, so I set up my camera…
Author: shotsbyp
Bear Safari
Each summer, we do excursions in the Canmore area to photograph the wildlife. The focus is bears but we do see many other animals and enjoy photographing them as well. We had an outing yesterday, Rolande and myself accompanied by our friend Tammy Howell, an enthusiastic wildlife photographer. We were very fortunate to see two…
Atlantic Sunrise
We made a recent trip to Florida, staying with family in Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville. My sister-in-law, Jinette loves to walk on the beach in the morning and invited me along to get some photos of the sunrise. It was beautiful, as the following brief slideshow will attest. Conditions were great for photography. I…
Sunrise at the Boundary Ranch
Across the highway from the Boundary Ranch in Kananaskis Country is a very large meadow surrounded by mountain peaks. It’s a great place to photograph mountain scenes because there are many to choose among. It’s as simple as turning around to find another great landscape. The following pictures were photographed at sunrise (5:30 am these days). The window…
Kootenay Valley Cumulus
Travelling home from Radium, B.C., I noticed these fantastic cumulus clouds rising high above the mountains bordering the Kootenay Valley. When you consider that the mountains rise 5000-6000 ft above the valley floor, you can appreciate the enormity of the cloud masses. I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and…