Bright sun on Whirlpool Mountain

Bright morn­ing light on Whirlpool Moun­tain

Here’s anoth­er pho­to­graph from my first pho­to-trip of the year in Jasper Nation­al Park. I made this image from along the Ice­fields Park­way, about 20 min­utes south of the town of Jasper. I’m not sure about the name of this peak, but my best guess is that it’s Whirlpool Moun­tain, just south of Mount Edith Cavell and north of Mount Geral­dine (if any­body can confirm/correct this, please leave me a com­ment).

The deep blue of the sky is due most­ly to the use of a polar­iz­ing fil­ter which real­ly brought out the con­trast between the sky, the shad­ows on the moun­tain, and the bright snow-cov­ered faces.