Astrophotography Earlier this week, I ventured out to photograph the Milky Way. My comrade-in arms, Harv Emter picked me up at home at 11:00 pm and we travelled about 20 km south along the Smith-Dorrien Trail to our destination at the north end of Spray Lake. This was our first night shoot from this location…
Author: shotsbyp
Scenes from Atop Sulphur Mountain
Banff and its Surroundings Yesterday, Rolande and I accompanied her niece, Diane and her friends to the summit of Sulphur Mountain in Banff. The gondola ride up was uneventful despite being busy. It’s only early June; I can’t imagine what it will be like in July and August! Today’s pictures were all taken from at…
Scenes from the Vermilion Lakes
Banff National Park Earlier this week, I made the short journey to the Vermilion Lakes, just outside the Town of Banff. This location is an all-time favourite. Its conditions rarely disappoint and this occasion was no exception. This first picture, featuring Mount Rundle is a great example, one of many photographs I was able to…
Gap Lake Spring Day
Experimenting with Long Exposure The weather was very enticing yesterday. I went out in the late morning to a nearby location, Gap Lake. My main objective for the day was to experiment with long exposure photography, primarily to refresh the skills I had learned and didn’t want to lose. Long exposures are possible in broad…
Re-Work
2nd Time Around from the Archives Today, I’m sharing a series of un-related photographs, drawn from my archives. I haven’t done nearly as much photography in the past four months as I would normally do. My inventory of new, raw images is largely depleted. That doesn’t mean I have nothing to work with. For this…