I noticed some particularly interesting cloud patterns this afternoon, so I went out for a walk around the neighbourhood, camera in hand. I found a number of interesting picture choices and I’m posting a few of them today. Taken near the entrance to our neighbourhood. I chose this photo because I like the light filtering…
The Blue-Gold Polarizer
Or, perhaps I should say the dreaded blue-gold polarizer. I’m talking about a polarizing filter used on a camera lens that works much like polarizing sunglasses. A polarizing filter generally does two things, it cuts glare (useful when photographing water or snow in bright sunlight) and it saturates or intensifies colours. The blue-gold polarizer is…
Pine Creek Bridge
I continue to work through the raw files from the trip to Zion NP. A lot of photographs! Today I’m posting a shot from our second day in the park, a photo of Pine Creek Bridge. It’s a beautiful stone structure and I was able to get down into the creek itself to photograph the…
Down the Valley
It must be time to go home. Weather in Arizona is good; hasn’t rained in the 6 weeks we’ve been here and we’re looking forward to another clear, sunny day tomorrow with a forecast high of 23 deg C. Enough with the weather reports. Enough of this fine weather. I guess I’m getting eager to…
Winter Sunset
Sometimes you just get lucky! It was a late January afternoon 2009. I was reading upstairs in Canmore, when I happened to glance out the window. I was struck by the pinkish glow to the sky and realized there was a picture to be taken. I got quite a few but one in particular stood out from…