The best part about shooting locally - whether it is in my backyard, my city, or my province - is that everything I take for granted is exotic to someone else. Keeping this in mind forces me to consider, and then reconsider everything I shoot, or may want to shoot. Everything that is commonplace is an opportunity to look at in a new and different way.
Whistlers Summit, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Cave and Basin National Historic Site of Canada.
The lowest of nine natural hot springs on the northeast side of Sulphur Mountain.
Boardwalk trail near the Cave and Basin in Banff National Park.
I had decided a few years ago that I wanted to shoot the mountain ghosttown of Bankhead - near Banff, Alberta - in the snow, and when I finally got around to it they had had a doosey of a snow fall the night before! Turns out through the winter the road into the site is closed to traffic, and becomes a popular cross-country skiing trail. Needless to say, the walk from the parking area at Lake Minnewanka is all the longer through hip-deep snow.
Inside the lamphouse building. An inportant park of the town's coal mining operation. Each miner was assigned a numbered mining lamp at the beginning of their shift. At the end of each shift, the mining lamps were counted to determine if any miners were missing.
I love this doorway!
An old workhorse: this compressed air locomotive dates to 1901, and came from the nearby Old Canmore Mine.
A small cascade near the town of Banff, Alberta.
Waterfall near Johnston Canyon Cave, between Lower and Upper Falls along the Johnston Canyon Trail in Banff National Park.
Chinese immigrants who worked on the railway brought rhubarb with them. Now it grows wild throughout the ghosttown.
Mount Rundle.
I love the textures of the landscape in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park; the endless sculpting by the wind and water; I highly recommend a visit. And do book the sunset tour! Golden hour in this place is magical.
Waiting around until two in the morning for the galaxy to rotate its way over my chosen hoodoo is totally my idea of how to spend a clear summer night. I might have decided enough was enough when the howling coyotes I’d been listening to most of the night started sound too close for comfort…
The region known as the Canadian Badlands covers some 35,000 square miles of southeastern Alberta, and is home to some of my favourite landscapes.
Travelling around Alberta’s heartland you'll find occasional accumulations of old cars and trucks left alone to be slowly reclaimed by nature. To me, these old relics are just fascinating subjects.
A 1932 Cord L29 on display at the Gasoline Alley exhibit at Heritage Park in Calgary. A sweet ride in 1932, if you could afford the $3,000.00 pricetag.
