Earlier this week, we traveled into Calgary to run some errands. I stopped at our mailbox to post a letter and saw the first sign of frost. I took the picture with my iPhone which did a pretty good job of capturing the detail of the ice crystals. Had I known what was yet to come,…
Author: shotsbyp
Canmore Winter Morning
We returned to Canmore earlier this week. Good news and bad news. On the positive side, we missed the brutal cold that gripped the area in late November. Unfortunately, we also missed the beautiful snowfall that followed, although some would say it was too much. A lot of snow! By the time we got here…
Moonset
I went out this morning to capture the setting of the moon. I’ve been trying to get some good shots of the full moon for a few days, but some uncharacteristic weather has thwarted me until now. It was a beautiful clear morning today with the moon nicely visible in the northwestern sky. All the pictures…
Desert Sunset
Last evening, I ventured out into the desert for some sunset scenes. I was accompanied by Bill McAdam for what proved to be a productive shoot. We didn’t have far to go, the desert is all around us. We travelled about 10 minutes to a location where I had scouted some good scenery and spent about…
Full Moon
Photographing a full moon scene after dark can be challenging. The difficulty results from the brilliance of the moon relative to its darker surroundings. A camera cannot manage the strong contrast, leaving the photographer with three choices: expose the moon to see it as would the human eye, or expose the rest of the scene to see it…