Banff Alberta

I love how a telephoto lens can flatten a picture, as this one does. This is a photograph I took in 2006, early spring, looking west along the trans-Canada highway as we approached the mountains. Calgary is said to be set in the foothills, and you get the sense of rolling hills as you drive…

Mountain adventures

It’s been some time since my camera and I went for this kind of a walk, a slow meandering through the woods to see what pictures could be captured. Snow and water and sun make a great combination, especially in the mountains. It has been some time since we’ve been to the mountains and this…

A day in Banff

What a day – partially sunny, mild temperatures, lots of white snow and two cameras. I walked into Vermillion Lakes, drove over to Bow Falls, walked the main street of Banff, drove along Hwy 1A… and saw just one big bull Elk but he wasn’t where I could stop to get a good picture. I…