It’s 480 km from Canmore to Writing-on Stone Provincial Park, a journey of 5 hours and of course the same for the return trip. The drive presented numerous good photographic opportunities in the course of my travels to the park last week. Today’s subject is the sights I photographed going to and returning from the…
Author: shotsbyp
Writing on Stone Provincial Park
Last week, I joined two members of the Canmore Camera Club for a return trip to the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southeast Alberta. I had been there two years ago and made a note to return. Writing-on-Stone is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature…
Astrophotography
Astrophotography is photography of astronomical objects, celestial events, and areas of the night sky. I had a good week, capturing two celestial events, a comet passing through and an appearance of the Milky Way. Comet Neowise is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit, discovered on March 27,2020. It orbits the sun on a…
Kootenay Plains and Cline River
This past Saturday, July 18, I ventured northward along the Icefields Parkway, this time accompanied by my friend and fellow photographer, Bob Bear. We drove as far as Saskatchewan Crossing, before turning eastward on Highway 11 in the direction of Red Deer. Our destinations for the day were the Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve and the…
Scenes from Jasper National Park
The second day of our Jasper trip was spent in the Maligne Valley, including a visit to the Maligne Canyon and a boat cruise down Maligne Lake. We did the boat cruise first, taking advantage of an earlier, less crowded boat. But, having avoided the crowds there, we arrived later at Maligne Canyon where it…