My photographic activity is somewhat curtailed at the present time due to a lingering presence of smoke in the air. This phenomenon is due to a plethora of forest fires, primarily in the US Northwest. The smoke from those fires has drifted in and the haze it creates has virtually obscured the sky and the…
Category: Alberta
Milky Way Over Mount Rundle
Earlier this week, I went out with members of the Canmore Camera Club for a night time shoot. Our purpose was to capture pictures of the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name “milky” is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars…
Summer Evening in Canmore
Sometimes I just like to go out in the evenings to take a few pictures locally. Last week I had a friend, Bill McAdam visiting and we went out for a couple of hours to see what we could find. We visited a couple of areas very close to home and got some good evening…
Scenes from the Highwood Pass
The Highwood Pass, as its name suggests is a mountain pass traversed by Alberta Highway 40 to cross the Highwood Range of mountains onto the eastern slopes of the Rockies and onward to the prairies. It is the highest, paved mountain pass in Canada at an elevation of 2,206 m (7,238 ft). It is also a very beautiful…
Sarrail Creek Falls
One of my recent trips to K-Country took me to the Upper Kananaskis Lake where I photographed this small, but beautiful waterfall, where Sarrail Creek emerges from the forest. I took a number of shots but found this one to be the most appealing, at least to my eye. It features the “streamed” look, designed to…