Astrophotography is photography of astronomical objects, celestial events, and areas of the night sky. I had a good week, capturing two celestial events, a comet passing through and an appearance of the Milky Way. Comet Neowise is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit, discovered on March 27,2020. It orbits the sun on a…
Month: July 2020
Kootenay Plains and Cline River
This past Saturday, July 18, I ventured northward along the Icefields Parkway, this time accompanied by my friend and fellow photographer, Bob Bear. We drove as far as Saskatchewan Crossing, before turning eastward on Highway 11 in the direction of Red Deer. Our destinations for the day were the Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve and the…
Scenes from Jasper National Park
The second day of our Jasper trip was spent in the Maligne Valley, including a visit to the Maligne Canyon and a boat cruise down Maligne Lake. We did the boat cruise first, taking advantage of an earlier, less crowded boat. But, having avoided the crowds there, we arrived later at Maligne Canyon where it…
Scenes Along the Icefields Parkway
Last week, Rolande and I took a trip along the Icefields Parkway, a scenic route from Lake Louise to Jasper, Alberta. It’s a mountain road, best known for the Columbia Icefields and the glaciers that flow from it, many visible from the highway. The Columbia Icefield is the largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains. It’s located…