Yesterday, accompanied by Bob Bear and Hugh Williamson, I returned to the Stanley Glacier, a photo site Bob and I visited last year. We returned with the hope of having better conditions for photography than we did on our last visit, hampered on that occasion by smoke from forest fires, primarily in the U.S. Northwest. (You…
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Nice Cars
I discovered last spring that I enjoy photographing interesting cars. I visited some car shows in Scottsdale Arizona and discovered that vintage cars make good photo subjects. I have two friends in Canmore who have very nice cars. Rob Wagemakers leans to the classic vintage cars; a 1939 Chevrolet Business Coupe Master 85, a 1957 Chevrolet…
Saturday Morning Drive
Yesterday morning, I ventured out for a morning drive with no particular destination in mind. I chose some areas I don’t often frequent in search of photographs, with the expectation I would find something interesting. After traveling west on the Trans-Canada Highway, I turned southward onto the Banff-Windermere Parkway, heading toward British Columbia and Kootenay…
Summer Scenes
Today’s post includes some favourite scenes taken in the course of the summer, thus far. There is no particular theme, other than I like them. The first two were taken on a misty morning in Kananaskis Country, beginning with this picture taken at Spillway Lake before the fog had burned off. The only thing missing…
Bighorn Sheep
Yesterday, I was showing the scenery of Alberta to our visitors, Jennifer and Raymond Desjardins when we came across some bighorn sheep, patrolling Highway 40 in Kananaskis Country. Never shy, two rams were strolling down the middle of the road, oblivious to the traffic they were delaying. Exercising a little patience, we managed to get a…