Rural landscapes: Spring in the foothills
SPRING IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS, SOUTHWEST OF CALGARY, ALBERTA
I made this photograph a few weekends ago during a wonderful Sunday morning communing with God’s glorious creation. Just enough colour on the trees (spring comes late to the Canadian province of Alberta) and lots of snow still on the Rocky Mountain front ranges. This is a telephoto view designed to compress the distance between the road/trees and peaks. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Schooner Cove Trail
THE TRAIL TO SCHOONER COVE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Schooner Cove is part of glorious Pacific Rim National Park on the west coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island. This is wet, temperate rainforest and the morning I walked the trail certainly reflected that. Fortunately, the rain was light and intermittent, so I was able to make lots of satisfactory long-exposure photographs without getting excessively soaked. This is a carefully designed composition, to ensure no distracting white sky got into the picture. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter.
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Natural landscapes: Evening light at Emerald Lake
EVENING LIGHT AT EMERALD LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
I fished around in the archives to find this September 1996 photograph, made at one of the most picturesque Canadian Rocky Mountain lakes in awesome Yoho National Park. At the time, my favourite camera was a medium-format Pentax 6×7. I used Velvia slide film for this photo, plus a tripod, polarizer and (if I remember correctly) a 45-mm. wide-angle lens. Don’t think I ever been to this lake in such jaw-droppingly beautiful conditions.
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Natural Landscapes: Morning at Grice Bay
MORNING AT GRICE BAY, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Pacific Rim National Park, on Canada’s west coast, is rightly known for beaches and Pacific Rainforest. But drive a few kilometres inland and you’ll find the peaceful waters of Grice Bay, surrounded by coastal mountains. I would have liked to have gotten to this outstanding spot in earlier morning light, but what I’ve captured here still works to my satisfaction. And the rowboat is a HUGE, unexpected bonus! Nikon D90, polarizing filter, two-stop hard-edged graduated density filter (to darken the sky), tripod.
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Urban landscapes: Pedestrian underpass
PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS, KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA
While seeking landscape compositions of the Thompson River, I stumbled upon this illuminated walkway pipe under the Trans Canada Highway. The tight confines and strong circular lines intrigued me, so I went to work with my Nikon D90, tripod and 18-55 mm. zoom lens. Experimented with all kinds of light balances, with and without a flash (this photo is likely with a flash) and did some long-exposure zoom pictures like this. Ended up with lots of interesting photographs of a very unlikely subject.
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Natural landscapes: Cathedral Grove
CATHEDRAL GROVE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
All it took was a one-hour walk through just half of this un-freaking-believable forest of 300-year-old trees on Canada’s west coast to produce more than a dozen photographic “keepers”. This is Pacific rainforest at its most grand and stunning – and it has a winding, two-lane road running through the middle! Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: Tonquin Park Beach
DAYBREAK AT TONQUIN PARK BEACH, BRITISH COLUMBIA
This beach is in the quaint, picturesque town of Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada’s westernmost province. As you can see, it’s a stunning locale and I managed to get there for some pretty decent daybreak skies. (Thank you, God, for creating such magnificence!)
I used a hard-edge, two-stop graduated density filter to darken just the upper section of the picture, so the sky – which was much brighter than the ground – wouldn’t be overexposed when I made the picture. Nikon D90, tripod.
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Natural landscapes: Clouds at Long Beach
AFTERNOON CLOUDS AT LONG BEACH, PACIFIC RIM NATIONAL PARK
This park is on the stunning west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. I recently returned from several days there, enjoying incredible beaches, rainforests and wildlife. The amazing thing is, we weren’t supposed to get sunny conditions on our one full day there. And yet, check out this picture! Already thinking about a return trip. Nikon D90, tripod, polarizing filter and, possibly, a hard-edge, two-stop graduated density filter to darken the sky (just can’t remember for sure if I used it on this photo).
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Urban landscapes: Vancouver at dusk
VANCOUVER AT DUSK
Some of the waters around Vancouver’s Stanley Park are sheltered enough to remain still much of the time. This makes for ideal skyline shots of this stunning city on Canada’s west coast. I scrambled to make this loooong exposure, using a Nikon D90 and tripod, before the darkness set in so thoroughly that the buildings would be lost against the night sky. How did I do?
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Natural landscapes: Daybreak in Kamloops
DAYBREAK ON THE THOMPSON RIVER, KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA
The first picture I’ve posted from a week-long vacation my wife and I took through British Columbia. While she slept, I was up before dawn to check out the river that flows through Kamloops. Used my new two-stop, hard-edge graduated density filter to darken the sky. Nikon D90, tripod.
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