This autumn scene was photographed in October 2015 at Barrier Lake in Kananaskis Country, about 30 minutes from home in Canmore. In October 2012, I travelled to New Brunswick to attend a workshop led by Freeman Patterson and André Gallant two prominent Canadian photographers. One of the topics covered was abstract photography with much of…
Category: Autumn Colours
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…
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…
Peace River and Surroundings
This is the second of four blogs I’ll be posting, featuring my favourite photographs from a recent road trip to Peace Country in Northern Alberta. It includes photographs from the Town of Peace River as well as pictures from the nearby surroundings. This is a scene we encountered on our arrival at Peace River. It…
Northern Alberta Road Trip
Last week, Bob Bear and I set out on a four-day road trip into scenic northern Alberta, north and west of Edmonton. Our prime destination is an area known as Peace Country, an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River. It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia. Our first…