The snow is mostly gone, here on the prairies, but it will be some weeks before we see greenery and flowers blooming. I can’t wait! It has been a long winter and I sure could use a bit of color. Late spring or early summer images are great for it because all is fresh and green is bright and not dimmed by dust of late summer days.
We are lucky here in Alberta, because some nights are full of light show. We had a couple of gorgeous Aurora showing last fall and I have managed to capture some shots without leaving the city.
I know, I know it is winter and everybody posts winter photography, but I am not ready for it yet. I see it outside my window every day, so I want to see something warm, colorful and pretty. Hope you are in need of this as well.
It has been a while since I’ve posted anything about Elk Island National Park. So, I think, it is time for some lovely sunset from the beginning of summer, when all was green, flowers were blooming and days were warm and long.
On the way back home, after an awesome trip and really good time, we spotted this huge cloud formation on the horizon.
I think it was the most interesting thing I have seen in a very long time. The clouds were changing their formation by the minute, and it was steadily growing. Luckily it passed us by. I would not want to be driving through this.
Besides seeing a lot of local fauna and flora in the Banff National Park, you always meet the other type of fauna.... the tourists. On a nice day like this there were a lot of them. Which in a way is good, because it provides great shooting opportunities. I just wish I had some business cards with me, so people would be able to get some of the images I took of them. Next time I will be ready, for now I'm just an anonymous dude with a camera. Enjoy.
Now what would a good road trip be, with out some postcards. Postcards from the mountains. Enjoy.
One thing you see on the road trip is an abundance of flora, and if you are lucky you will see some fauna as well.
We got lucky, as well. It was the first time I ever saw a bear in the Banff National Park, and it was a Grizzly. It looked young from the distance, but still I would not like to be near it :)
More pictures to come soon.
I wanted to see the difference between my Canon 17-40mm wide angle lens and the Canon 16-35mm lens. The 16-35mm is twice as expensive as the 17-40mm, probably because it's a f2.8, and the 17-40mm is only f4.0-5.6. Numbers aside, testing it in the field produced very similar results. For landscape they are pretty much the same as landscapes are usually shot at f8. I can see the 16-35mm being an interesting effect lens specially with such a small aperture. So I tested that on Sebastian. As always he was willing to have some pictures taken, and made some faces for the camera.... I'm hoping I'm not creating a monster here :) So here are the tests results.... see if you can tell the difference between a 17-40mm and a 16-35mm.
