It was too good to be true. After a great day for our Kananaskis photo excursion, the weather turned gloomy, cool and overcast. That’s disappointing on many levels but I couldn’t overlook the cloud cover, always a nice feature for creating atmosphere in a photograph. I took a camera with me on my daily walk,…
Category: Alberta
K-Country Spring
Earlier this week, I made my first foray of the spring into Kananaskis Country, where I met up with my two longtime photography partners, Bob Bear and Stewart Hamilton. Although I had been in this area in February, it has been closed since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. As Alberta relaxes prior constraints in…
More Favourites from the Archives
In this blog, I’m again sharing more photographs sourced from deep in my electronic archives. This first shot was taken in Calgary in 2010 while we were still residing there. I awoke on a winter morning to see the trees outside adorned with hoar frost, a crystalline deposit of frozen water vapour formed in clear…
Vermilion Lakes (Springtime)
We had a beautiful spring day yesterday. I took advantage of this rare occurence to go out last evening to take some photographs at nearby Vermilion Lakes, just outside the Town of Banff. This first scene was taken soon after 7:30, before getting the soft, warm light of the Golden Hour. I took this next…
Selection from the Archives
With a little time on my hands, I’ve been looking back through my photo archives. I’m doing some clean-up of the files and looking for the better ones to include in an “Archive of Favourites” I’m creating. I have almost 28,000 photographs on file, dating back to 2004. My expectations have changed and it’s evident,…