Over the past few months I’ve been participating with friends in Canmore in a weekly, photography exercise. We work with a new theme each week, take 5-6 photographs and then share them for the purpose of critiquing. This is an excellent learning experience and a great antidote to the constraints imposed by the Covid-19 lockdowns….
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Field Trip
Conditions for photography haven’t been great around Canmore in the last couple of weeks. We’ve enjoyed unseasonably warm temperatures for January and no recent snowfalls to freshen up the “old-looking” snow we have. So, I concluded I should travel further afield to higher elevations and areas with more snow. Yesterday, accompanied by Kevin McCormick I…
Autumn Scenes, Canmore
This post will be the last of a series of four featuring autumn scenes. The pictures in this post were mostly taken in a walk around the Town of Canmore in late September. I begin with this one taken from the roadside of the Three Sisters Parkway, a short distance from home. It shows a…
Writing on Stone Provincial Park
Last week, I joined two members of the Canmore Camera Club for a return trip to the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southeast Alberta. I had been there two years ago and made a note to return. Writing-on-Stone is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature…
Astrophotography
Astrophotography is photography of astronomical objects, celestial events, and areas of the night sky. I had a good week, capturing two celestial events, a comet passing through and an appearance of the Milky Way. Comet Neowise is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit, discovered on March 27,2020. It orbits the sun on a…