It’s autumn, the most colourful season of the year. I’ve been getting out with a camera to capture the vibrant hues of the season. I’ll be posting a series of blogs capturing the colours in different areas in and around Canmore as the season progresses. Yesterday, I went out with Stewart Hamilton, friend and talented…
Ha Ling Trail
Ha Ling Peak is located at the northwestern end of Mount Lawrence Grassi — a mountain located immediately south of the town of Canmore, just east of the Spray Lakes road. It is a Canmore landmark, pictured in this photograph I took on a misty summer morning in 2013. The Ha Ling Trail ascends Ha Ling Peak…
Alberta Road Trip
It’s 480 km from Canmore to Writing-on Stone Provincial Park, a journey of 5 hours and of course the same for the return trip. The drive presented numerous good photographic opportunities in the course of my travels to the park last week. Today’s subject is the sights I photographed going to and returning from the…
Writing on Stone Provincial Park
Last week, I joined two members of the Canmore Camera Club for a return trip to the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southeast Alberta. I had been there two years ago and made a note to return. Writing-on-Stone is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature…
Astrophotography
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…