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Lake Louise – ice castles and early mornings
Lake Louise is a favourite place for my wife and I to visit in the Banff National Park. This weekend, with my parents taking care of the kids for a night, we went up and stayed on the lake’s eastern...
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Early morning with Vermilion and Rundle
Dawn at the second Vermilion Lake was beautiful with some lovely colour in the sky around Mount Rundle early in the sunrise. As the sun climbed, I moved into the contrasts and this one worked well in...
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Sunrise over Mount Rundle
The second sunrise at Vermilion Lake this weekend produced some wonderful images this weekend. There was a break between clouds and mountain peaks farther east so the clouds above Mount Rundle and the...
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Wapiti reflections on Two Jack Lake
Following a beautiful sunrise down on the Vermilion Lakes, my friend and I drove up towards Lake Minnewanka to see if there was any wildlife that wanted to be seen. We spied this bull elk along the...
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The elusive red light of dawn on the Ten Peaks
Canon 5DIII camera with a Canon 17-40mm lens: 2 seconds at f/22 on ISO 100 I enjoy photographing the landscapes around Moraine Lake and realized it had been almost a year since I went up and waited for...
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Moonlight over Mount Rundle
Canon 5DIII camera with a Canon 17-40mm lens: 80 seconds at f/11 on ISO 800 During the tail-end of the full phase of August’s blue moon I went to the edge of the first of the Vermilion Lakes just west...
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Migrating through the Rockies
A skein of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) broke from the standard V formation as they navigated through the Bow Valley corridor. It may have been wind shear out of the mountains that pushed the...
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Wind in the mountains
Canon 5DIII + 300mm f/4 lens: 1/4000th of a second at f/11 on ISO 400 The winds that came with the weather change last weekend were heavy when I left my home in Bragg Creek for the Banff National Park...
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Minnewanka sheep in the snow
Just off Lake Minnewanka there was a small herd of Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) grazing along the side of the road. They were a mix of mothers, kids and young rams. All told there were less than...
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A Banff Grizzly on the move
Canon 5DIII and 300mm lens: 1/1600 second at f/4 on ISO 2000 I spent one morning in Banff on the weekend and came across a male Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) along the Bow Valley Parkway. He...
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Moonrise over Mount Rundle
My son and I were in Banff for the weekend and went out for a drive along the Vermilion Lakes just before sunset on Saturday night. We stopped at the first lake to watch the colors deepen on the...
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Daybreak over Banff
I watched the sky brighten above the Banff from Norquay Meadow. The moon lit the mountain a little while the townsite’s lights glowed in the valley below.Filed under: Banff National Park,...
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Autumn at Pilot Pond in Banff
We have enjoyed a long fall season this year. Sometimes winter steals in before it seems like summer had closed off. This autumn is now closing in on two months and has been quite a nice season. I...
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November snow reflected in the Vermilion Lakes
(Please click any image to open a higher resolution version) Following an unusually warm Hallowe’en, the temperature dropped below freezing. That low pressure system was accompanied by heavy clouds...
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Bow Valley – late autumn, early snow
Winter snuck an early snowstorm into Banff National Park’s Bow Valley last weekend. By mid-morning, most of the snow had melted away in the valley bottom but the upper slopes were still dominated by...
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A clearing storm in the park
This meadow in the Bow Valley often provides a reflection of the current of the weather affecting much of the park. On this day in early November, the remnants of a storm was thrashing around in the...
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An autumn Grizzly in the Banff National Park
On the weekend, I found a Grizzly bear traversing along the edge of the Bow Valley Parkway near the southeast entrance. The bear, a female with the tag #148 (I think), I could see where she had been...
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Rutting Elk in the Bow Valley
A small herd of bull elk were gathered near Moose Meadows on the Bow Valley Parkway when I was there on the weekend. The frost bleached the grass and the cold air made the breath visible. These were...
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Vermilion Lakes Sunrise in the Banff National Park
When I set up my gear on the shore of the first of the Vermilion Lakes, it was cold and dark. I wanted to be there early to catch Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky before it brightened too much....
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Dawn at Two Jack Lake in the Banff National Park
With the cooler days that have come with November, we have had some snow fall up in the mountains. I went up to Two Jack Lake for sunrise on Friday to see how things would look with a bit of snow in...
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