Talbot Lake Ridges

Miette range from Tal­bot lake

One of my favourite pho­tographs I’ve taken, (yes, I’ll have a copy at the show this week­end), is this one which I called “Miette range from Tal­bot Lake.” I made this expo­sure back in Feb­ru­ary of 2007 as I was dri­ving home through Jasper National Park. The dead trees in this photo were killed in a con­trolled burn for­est fire in 2003. The still-standing, black­ened trunks con­trasted beau­ti­fully with the dust­ing of snow on the ridge. What I really love about the post-burn Tal­bot Lake area is that you get to see the sub­tle ridge and val­ley topog­ra­phy of the hills, which is nor­mally cov­ered by a thick blan­ket of spruce and fir trees. Com­bine that with a lit­tle side light­ing, a dust of snow or bloom­ing fire­weed, and me with a cam­era – I could hap­pily spend all day.