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Mountain sunset under heavy clouds

The last light of the sun setting behind rugged peaks shines below a sky of heavy clouds

Sun­set under heavy clouds

If you’ve signed up for my newslet­ter you’ll rec­og­nize these past few images that I’ve shared — this one is from a trip to Jasper National Park that I took this spring. I was lucky enough to drive into the moun­tains just as the sun dipped below the clouds for a few min­utes before sink­ing behind the moun­tain peaks. I don’t recall my cam­era set­tings for this par­tic­u­lar image, but I was def­i­nitely think­ing of the golden rule for land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy — “f/8 and be there”.

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Spring rain over Devona Flats

A late evening spring rain falls onto the dry lakebed of Jasper Lake at Devona Flats in Jasper National Park

Spring storm over Devona Flats

I recently had the chance to get away for a few days, and had the plea­sure of being able to do some pho­tog­ra­phy in Jasper National Park. The day that I took this pho­to­graph started out clear and sunny, and as the day went along these large clouds spilled out of the Athabasca River Val­ley to the west, com­ing east towards Pocha­hon­tas where I was stay­ing. And while the clouds made it less appeal­ing to sit out on the deck in the after­noon, they sure made for much more dra­matic pho­tographs later in the evening — well worth the trade-off.

I really like the con­trast in this image of the heavy, wet sky and the falling rain streak­ing down — con­trasted with the dry river flats still await­ing the melt of higher ele­va­tion snow and the start of spring and sum­mer weather patterns.

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Bright sun on Whirlpool Mountain

Whirlpool Mountain catches the bright morning sunlight on a cold clear winter day in Jasper National Park

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.

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January 21st, 2011 | Keywords: , , , , | Topic: New photographs | One comment
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ASA Forest Show in Hinton

The Forest Show

I am really excited that one of the pho­tographs from my “Tal­bot Burn” port­fo­lio has been cho­sen to be a part of the “For­est Show” curated by the Alberta Soci­ety of Artists. The exhi­bi­tion is cur­rently mounted in the Hin­ton Pub­lic Library (Jan 5 – 31), and will be mov­ing to the Edson Library (Feb 2 – 28), the McMullen Gallery in Edmon­ton (open­ing recep­tion on March 24, 7 – 9 pm), and the Leighton Gallery in Cal­gary (open­ing recep­tion June 4, 2 – 4 pm). My piece was also selected to be one of just a few pieces that will be in a trav­el­ling exhi­bi­tion show­ing through­out Alberta until 2013. I hope that you can make it to one of these venues, but if not, you can have look at the image in my “Tal­bot Burn” port­fo­lio (it’s the third image, enti­tled “Tal­bot Fire Val­ley”), or sim­ply click below to view the image full screen.

Fire-blackened spruce tree stems stand in a valley laid bare by forest fire in 2003 in Jasper National Park

Tal­bot fire valley



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 —   The Forest Show art exhibition in Edmonton —  ASA Forest Show in Edson —  Talbot Lake Ridges —
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Sunrise on Mount Edith Cavell

The first rays of sunlight illuminate the southeast face of Mount Edith Cavell on a clear winter morning in Jasper National Park

First light on south face of Mount Edith Cavell

Happy New Year! After a great trip to the west coast for the hol­i­days, I had the plea­sure of spend­ing my first pho­tog­ra­phy trip of the new year in the heart of the Rocky Moun­tains — Jasper National Park. I could hardly have asked for a bet­ter way to start the year than to be out there watch­ing the sun come up over freshly snow-blanketed peaks, and freez­ing my fin­gers on my cam­era. I have a bunch of new pho­tos that I’m excited to share, so check back soon!

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A selection of my favourite landscape photographs from 2009

Sev­eral of my favourite Alberta land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers have been post­ing small gal­leries of their past year’s best land­scape pho­tographs, so I decided to do the same. It was fun to look back through a year’s worth of pho­tos, and impos­si­ble to decide which were my “favourite”. I decided to pick one favourite photo from each of the loca­tions in Alberta that I reg­u­larly make pho­tographs includ­ing: Jasper National Park, Water­ton National Park, and the Ice­fields Park­way in the Rocky Moun­tains; and Min­is­tik Lake Game Bird Sanc­tu­ary, White­mud Ravine, Gold Bar Park, and the Strath­cona Sci­ence Park closer to my home in Edmonton.

I’ve posted all of the pho­tos below as a group (in chrono­log­i­cal order) but I will also cre­ate a sep­a­rate entry for each photo to pro­vide extra details about the image like I usu­ally do — just click on the link below each photo to go to it’s detail page. (It will take me a lit­tle while to get them all up)

I hope you enjoy this small col­lec­tion, and I do always appre­ci­ate it if you leave a com­ment with your thoughts or reac­tion. Happy New Year, and I wish you many fine pho­tographs in 2010!

Sun, shadow, fresh snow, and thin cloud on Mount Geraldine along the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, Canada

Moun­tain Geral­dine ridge

Along the Ice­fields Park­way [Click for more details]

A darkening sky on a cold winter day through the bare branches of aspen and poplar trees

Pale win­ter sky through poplar canopy

Min­is­tik Lake (in the winter)

Delicate white flowers bloom in front of a background of fern

Chick­weed blooms and fern

Water­ton National Park

Low clouds loom at dusk over a glassy calm boreal lake

Brood­ing cloud over Min­is­tik Lake

Min­is­tik Lake (in the sum­mer) (I know that’s cheat­ing a little)

The evening sky is reflected in multiple channels of the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park

Athabasca River island at dusk

Jasper National Park

Several birch trees stand bare in front of subtle fall colour in the North Saskatchewan River valley

Birch stems and early autumn colour

Gold­bar Park (North Saskatchewan River Valley)

Frost-covered willow thicket at dawn in the Whitemud Ravine in Edmonton, Alberta

Late autumn wil­low thicket

White­mud Ravine [Click for more details]

Heavy frost coats young alders saplings during an extreme cold snap in Edmonton, Alberta

Ice fog frozen on alder saplings

Strath­cona Sci­ence Park [Click for more details]

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January 3rd, 2010 | Keywords: , , , , , , , , , , | Topic: From the archives | 15 comments
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Mount Geraldine in winter

Sun, shadow, fresh snow, and thin cloud on Mount Geraldine along the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, Canada

Moun­tain Geral­dine ridge

I took this pho­to­graph while dri­ving south from Jasper along the Ice­fields Park­way on a very chilly, and very bright, (and very beau­ti­ful) win­ter morn­ing. While it was nearly mid-day when I made this expo­sure, the sun is so low at these north­ern lat­i­tudes at this time of year, the ridge was still sidelit — defin­ing the jagged line between the east­ern and north­ern faces.

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 —   Talbot Lake Ridges —  Sunrise on Mount Edith Cavell —  View from Sulphur Skyline trail —
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