My photographic activity is somewhat curtailed at the present time due to a lingering presence of smoke in the air. This phenomenon is due to a plethora of forest fires, primarily in the US Northwest. The smoke from those fires has drifted in and the haze it creates has virtually obscured the sky and the…
Milky Way Over Mount Rundle
Earlier this week, I went out with members of the Canmore Camera Club for a night time shoot. Our purpose was to capture pictures of the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name “milky” is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars…
Summer Evening in Canmore
Sometimes I just like to go out in the evenings to take a few pictures locally. Last week I had a friend, Bill McAdam visiting and we went out for a couple of hours to see what we could find. We visited a couple of areas very close to home and got some good evening…
Gone Fishin’
Last week, I went on a fishing trip with some friends from our golf club. It was the first time I had been fishing in 30 years. We went to some islands off the British Columbia coast, known as Haida Gwaii (formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands). It’s more accessible than it may appear, with…
Scenes from the Highwood Pass
The Highwood Pass, as its name suggests is a mountain pass traversed by Alberta Highway 40 to cross the Highwood Range of mountains onto the eastern slopes of the Rockies and onward to the prairies. It is the highest, paved mountain pass in Canada at an elevation of 2,206 m (7,238 ft). It is also a very beautiful…