For those unfamiliar with southern Alberta weather, Chinook winds are warm, and dry winds that occur on the leeward, or sheltered, side of mountain ranges, such as the Rocky Mountains. Chinook winds are fairly common during the winter months and often bring extreme increases in temperatures to the region as they move from west to east…
Author: shotsbyp
Early Snowfall
Yesterday, still early autumn, marked the first snowfall of the season. Seemingly early, but not unusual for Canmore. It was a gorgeous day and I was able to get out for a morning of photography with some friends from the Canmore Camera Club, Jiri Dlask and Kevin McCormick. Once the preliminary coffees and a discussion…
Cruising the Archives
Every so often, I look back into my photography files in search of promising pictures I may have overlooked earlier. Typically when I load new photo files into my catalog, I grade them before I begin to edit them. This would be ~25% of those I took on any given shooting occasion. I do not…
Scenes from the Icefields Parkway
On the final day of our Northern Alberta tour, we traveled along Highway 93 south, known as the Icefields Parkway. It’s a 232 km (145 mile) stretch of double-lane highway winding along the Continental Divide between the Towns of Jasper and Lake Louise. We traveled at a leisurely pace, stopping along the way to take…
On the Road to Jasper
Day 3 of our travels to northern Alberta took Bob and me from Peace River to Jasper, a 6-1/2 hour drive with some brief stops along the way. The first stop came on Highway 2, as we approached the village of Brownvale. An abandoned farm caught our eye as we drove by it and we…