Having beautiful weather is not always good for landscape photography. The clear blue skies, are great for camping and general merriment of being outside.
Elk Island in the sun and rain - Landscape Photography
Rainy day in Jasper - Alberta landscape photography
Going to the mountains is always associated with a risk of having rain, cold, and not a very pleasant day for photography. Specially when you have to drive about 4 hours. Yes there are weather forecasts, but as more weather "forecasting" becomes almost common place (all you have to look is your smart phone and there are hundreds of apps trying to tell you what the weather is going to be like), the quality of said forecasts diminishes exponentially.
Missing Summer Skies.. Part 2
Due to our long winter this year, I have been missing very much the colors and drama of summer skies. I am very happy, I have a bit of a back log of images to share with you guys, because now I can show some more of these to you and remember our photo adventures when we traveled outside the city to get them. You've seen some of my summer skies in my post: Missing Summer Skies.. Part 1 and today, I would like to share some shots I took one time, during our visit to Elk Island. It was an evening of storms, when the sky was changing from one minute to another and we were quite lucky to be close to our vehicles in order to hide from nature's fury, shoot some pictures in between the storms and hide from them again.. I have never experienced a more severe storm being out in the country. It was, definitely, something to behold.. And no, I was not going to be outside our vehicle shooting the lightning. I was cowering like any other smart human being inside it, emerging only well before or after a while, when all this fury has moved well away from us.. Kasia
Missing Summer Skies.. Part 1
The gloomy winter weather that we have been experiencing this year has made me appreciate a lot the summer skies and the gorgeous spectacles we have been able to witness over last summer. Even not being able to travel outside Edmonton, I took a lot of pictures on numerous occasions of weird, sometimes threatening clouds that were passing us by daily. I even got to capture a double rainbow, once! I would like to share some of these today with you. Fascinating stuff! I hope you will find them as enjoyable as I did! Have a wonderful Friday, everybody! Kasia
Sensual Portrait of a Girl in the Rain
This idea came from another photographer, and it didn't exactly go as planned :) I don't mind. I was there shooting just for the fun of it. Location wasn't what the other photographer envisioned either. The whole set up was going to be "sad girl in the rain".... it didn't rain that morning. Since we needed water, and at the original location access to water was difficult, we changed it to my back yard. We simulated the rain with a hose.... needless to say, my wife got almost as wet as the Girl in the Rain. It was a cold morning as well, so this took a few tries, as the poor, brave Brittany faced the cold weather and cold water. I was shooting with both the Fuji X-Pro1 and the Sony NEX-7. Today I only shoot with these two cameras. They are both great for weddings, engagements, portraits , landscape .... you name it. They are small, light, and portable, and don't attract too much attention. I highly, highly recommend both of these cameras. Here are some images from the session in the "rain", where sad, turned to sensual. Enjoy!
Mac
Heading back to Edinburgh..
Well, it was time to say good-bye to Glenfinnan and head back to Edinburgh. We have decided to make a circle and chosen a different road this time, as always, trying to fit as much new views as it was possible in the short time we had. It was definitely not a mistake and, though, we had been stuck for a while in a traffic jam in Fort William (road constructions - what else?!) we were not sorry at all. The weather system that we've encountered at the end of our nature walk seem to have been chasing us and the sky was truly amazing. So even stuck in traffic we have snapped a few shots of it.
Starting to be short on time, we weren't really planning on stopping too many times on the way, alas the views were so gorgeous that we have made numerous stops here and there taking pictures, every time promising it was the last..
How can you not stop when the rainbow shows up invitingly?!
Seduced again and again by colours and textures we were in awe of the beauty of the views we've encountered...
Oh.. to live in this little house for a while.. That would be something, for sure.. See it all in the changing seasons and colours would be something quite extraordinary, I think...
With such amazing textures and colours and ever-changing sky it was very hard not to photograph the same views over and over again, because every time we turned the light has changed and showed us yet another aspect of the landscape.. Glorious,wonderful places, all of them!!
The weather has started to catch up with us. There was a serious rain on the horizon and yet we still took our time to stop, not willing to miss anything...
See what I mean about the changing sky?! Well, it was time to hide in the car, since the rain started to fall and the road was calling.. What we've found next, I will share a bit later. I hope we were able to capture the wonderful beauty of these places. I can imagine them in the late summer or early fall when heather is in bloom, adding more colour to the ground... I would love to be able to truly explore this stretch of the road again, with more time and the ability to actually hike in the mountains a bit and visit places farther away from the highway..
Kasia
Jasper - Day 1
Well it's been almost a month since I posted anything. A lot of different reason piled up on top of each other. Finally though I managed to find some time to actually take some, very needed, time off. So packed up the family, and off we went to the mountains. I have been there for a long while and I was missing the sight of rugged peaks. The first day we spent mostly in Hinton, which is located about 40Km east of the Jasper National Park entrance. A good friend told me about the Beaver Walk, located in Hinton. When we got there it started to drizzle, which very soon turned into a heavy rain.
We got completely soaked. I guess it was a good test for the cameras, which worked very well all through the rain. After we got to the hotel, and dried up a little I could not resist going out to see if I can catch a glimpse of the quite spectacular sunset. I did manage to catch a very nice Mr. Elk who was eating supper at the side of the road. Completely ignoring 6 or so cars parked on the side of the road, and people snapping pictures of him. Yes I joined the herd of sheep, but since I had a longer lens I didn't have to fight for space on the side of the road. This was a great finish to a busy, wet day.
Resting
Can some one please tell me what bird is this. It was raining one day, and I spotted it sitting on my fence. I grabbed my zoom lens and slowly walked outside. He actually let me get pretty close, but I only managed one photo, before he took off. Looks to me that he is some kind of predatory species, but I have no idea what kind. Any help would be appreciated. :)
