Last Saturday was a beautiful day in the Bow Valley. I celebrated it in the company of friends and fellow photographers with a photo excursion to the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park. The Parkway, also known as Highway 1A has been closed to motor vehicles all summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This…
Cold Day at Bow Lake
This past Friday, I set out early to photograph the sunrise at Bow Lake, about 1-1/2 hours north of Canmore, along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. I went there with Kevin McCormick, a fellow member of the Canmore Camera Club. We arrived at 7:15 am, about 40 minutes before the sunrise. We set…
Autumn Scenes, Kootenay NP
My declaration that I had completed all my autumn scenes is perhaps premature. I recently went on a photo excursion with longtime friends and photography companions, Bob Bear and Stewart Hamilton. Our destination was Kootenay National Park, about 1 hour distant from Canmore. Although the calendar says it is still autumn, this area is getting…
Autumn Scenes, Canmore
This post will be the last of a series of four featuring autumn scenes. The pictures in this post were mostly taken in a walk around the Town of Canmore in late September. I begin with this one taken from the roadside of the Three Sisters Parkway, a short distance from home. It shows a…
Autumn in K-Country
I’ve taken advantage of our great autumn weather this year to take a lot of photos of colourful fall scenes. Today, I’ll share a number of them, taken on two separate occasions. The first three were taken a little early in the season, on September 23. The aspen trees had not yet achieved full autumn…