I was in Calgary for a couple of days this past week, and on one of the days, after work, I headed out to the Rockies. I specifically stayed in Banff National Park. The late afternoon / early evening was beautiful and warm. It was nice to be out in nature and enjoying Mother Nature’s creations!
Banff National Park Looking East
Cascade Falls
Banff National Park Looking North
Aspens
Johnson Canyon – Lower Falls
Vermillion Lakes
Vermillion Lakes
This morning I took some members of the Waterfall group to Great Falls located in Waterdown, Ontario. This is a very pretty waterfall with reasonably easy access to the bottom. While the waterfall itself is always nice to photograph, I enjoy shooting some of the many small cascades downstream. It was a beautiful morning and I quite enjoyed taking a couple of hours from a very busy work schedule to be out in nature!
Late this afternoon I went flying with a work colleague, Lester in his biplane. This plane was designed for aerobatic maneuvers and I can tell you it does them! Lester is a fantastic pilot and he certainly proved it! We did barrel rolls, loops and other aerobatic feats that make you wonder just why you got in the plane to begin with! I have to admit that it was a lot of fun though!
I drove back to Vancouver this afternoon. As I was leaving Kelowna there was a storm moving in. I stopped a couple of times and took some shots.
I hit quite a bit of rain through the mountains. I was just east of Hope, BC and I stopped and took this shot.
This afternoon on my way to Kelowna, BC I stopped along the TransCanada Route 1 at Bridal Veil falls. This is a very pretty waterfall and is usually packed with tourists. Today I pretty much had the place to myself. Unfortunately they have most of the access closed off due to falling tress and rocks. So I could not get the shots I really wanted. But it was a cloudy day so I am happy with what I did manage to get.
This evening I headed out of Burnaby along Highway 1 West and joined up with Highway 99 north, also known as the Sea To Sky highway. This highway, which heads up to Whistler, BC, was widened and fixed up a few years ago in time for the 2010 Olympic winter games held in Vancouver and Whistler. Before they widened it there used to be a few lookouts along the way, but this time as far up as The Village of Lions Bay, I could only find one. This is a shot from that lookout.
I am in Vancouver for a couple of days and this evening I drove down to one of the prettiest city parks in Canada, Stanley Park. I love going on walks through this park! This evening I wandered along the seawall and snapped a couple of shots as the sun was making its way down.
I drove down to Jordan Harbour this evening hoping for a spectacular sunset with the old “pirate ship” in the foreground. The sunset wasn’t great but the water in the harbour was calm and running the image though an HDR software created a nice effect.
This morning I took a few members from the Waterfall Meetup group to Sherman Falls in Ancaster, On. With all of the recent rains and such Sherman was flowing quite well. There were two other photography groups also shooting at Sherman which made the need for patience a necessity!
Last night I was in Niagara Falls for a couple of hours and wandered around snapping some shots. As I have mentioned in previous posts, taking a “different” image of Niagara Falls is not easy given the hundreds of thousands of images taken of it every year. So rather than fight the urge to create something different in camera I decided to load this into HDR Efex Pro by Nik Software. Images taken at night and then converted to HDR always seem to have more “punch”. I tried a few variations with this image and settled on this one.
Here is another image of just Horseshoe Falls.
