Every month our camera club assigns a topic for a series of photographs to be shared at our monthly meeting. One recent topic was Canmore Creek. This stream runs through the town, not far from where we live. It originates at the town reservoir, just below Ha Ling Peak then flows down through a few neighbourhoods before…
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CCC Excursion to the Highwood Pass
Earlier this week, I participated in a photographic excursion with fellow members of the Canmore Camera Club. We left town early on a beautiful sunny morning, destined for the Highwood Pass, about 100 km (63 mi.) distant in Kananaskis Country. Our primary purpose was to photograph wildflowers, but we were also able to get some…
Atlantic Provinces
Rolande and I recently traveled to the Atlantic Provinces, where we spent 13 days sightseeing, visiting friends and family and of course, taking the occasional photograph. Today, I’ll share a small few of the many pictures I took along the way. We began our travels in Newfoundland, including a trip to the small town of…
Urban Photography, Calgary
Last week, Bob Bear and I traveled into Calgary to do some Urban Photography. This genre of photography, like many others is open to broad interpretation. My focus on this shoot was Calgary’s Downtown architecture. Calgary has some very attractive buildings and boasts the second greatest number of skyscrapers in Canada, a distant second behind Toronto. That…
Kananaskis is Back!
Along with several other members of the Stewart Creek Golf and Country Club, Rolande and I played golf this week at the recently re-opened Kananaskis Country Golf Club. It’s two courses, Mount Kidd and Mount Lorette were severely damaged by the floods that struck the area in June 2013. Their restoration has taken a long…