Happy New Year! Today, January 3 marks the date of my first blog for the new year. Incidentally, I begin the new year with the 670th post since I began doing this in March 2010. I just don’t seem to tire of doing it. Yesterday, I went out with Bob Bear and Stewart Hamilton, after…
Scenes from the Southwest
I haven’t had the opportunity while in Arizona this fall to get out and do some photography. So, I’m short on original material. I did spend more time on the development of images, working with new techniques I’ve been learning over the past year. I found some good raw images in my archive that I…
Chinook
For those unfamiliar with southern Alberta weather, Chinook winds are warm, and dry winds that occur on the leeward, or sheltered, side of mountain ranges, such as the Rocky Mountains. Chinook winds are fairly common during the winter months and often bring extreme increases in temperatures to the region as they move from west to east…
Early Snowfall
Yesterday, still early autumn, marked the first snowfall of the season. Seemingly early, but not unusual for Canmore. It was a gorgeous day and I was able to get out for a morning of photography with some friends from the Canmore Camera Club, Jiri Dlask and Kevin McCormick. Once the preliminary coffees and a discussion…
Cruising the Archives
Every so often, I look back into my photography files in search of promising pictures I may have overlooked earlier. Typically when I load new photo files into my catalog, I grade them before I begin to edit them. This would be ~25% of those I took on any given shooting occasion. I do not…