I did a photo excursion yesterday with friends and fellow photographers, Julie and Stewart Hamilton. We went to a familiar location, the area around Mount Engadine Lodge, 37 km (23 miles) south of Canmore on the Spray Lakes Road. Although I visit the area frequently in summer, this was the first time I had gone…
Year: 2014
Converts to Black & White
I’ve been trying to appreciate black and white photography a little more. I’ve been experimenting with some software that includes a very good module for converting colour pictures to black and white. Today, I’m presenting a few pictures from my archive that I’ve chosen as good subjects for conversion. I’m not trying to be Ansel…
Frosty Day
Earlier this week, we traveled into Calgary to run some errands. I stopped at our mailbox to post a letter and saw the first sign of frost. I took the picture with my iPhone which did a pretty good job of capturing the detail of the ice crystals. Had I known what was yet to come,…
Canmore Winter Morning
We returned to Canmore earlier this week. Good news and bad news. On the positive side, we missed the brutal cold that gripped the area in late November. Unfortunately, we also missed the beautiful snowfall that followed, although some would say it was too much. A lot of snow! By the time we got here…
Moonset
I went out this morning to capture the setting of the moon. I’ve been trying to get some good shots of the full moon for a few days, but some uncharacteristic weather has thwarted me until now. It was a beautiful clear morning today with the moon nicely visible in the northwestern sky. All the pictures…