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Lumber Mill Steam – High Level, Alberta, Canada
A colder day in High Level, Alberta – perhaps -35C; steam rises from one of the two lumber mills.
Quote to Consider / Inspire: ‘The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’ – Dorothea Lange
Listening to: U2’s ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.’
Derelict Homestead – Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada – 1
Derelict Homestead – Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada – 2
Two winter homestead images from back in November. In each liking the light and colours.
Quote to Consider / Inspire: ‘My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.’ – Lois Greenfield
Listening to: U2’s ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses.’
Look-back image, Harbor – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Looking back through images to this one – a float plane descends to its harbor runway in Vancouver, British Columbia. An Easter vacation with family in Vancouver – a memorable time.
Quote to Consider / Inspire: ‘A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.’ – Roger Kingston
Listening to: Dave Matthews’ ‘Old Dirt Hill.’
Two Shot Pano – Ragged Ass Road, Yellowknife, NT – 1
Two Shot Pano – Ragged Ass Road, Yellowknife, NT – 2
During last October’s Kelby World-wide Photowalk, I snapped two different shots of a retro-green work shed along Ragged Ass Road in Yellowknife. When looking back to my photowalk photos, I recognized that it might be possible to stitch them together in a Panorama in Adobe Lightroom Classic. It worked. It does have curious distortion. But, it worked. Good.
Quote to Consider / Inspire: ‘You might be a photographer if … your eyesight from staring at the computer has gone for F11 to F1.8.’
Listening to: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ and ‘Brilliant Disguise.’
Indian Cabins, Alberta – 1
Indian Cabins, Alberta – 2
Indian Cabins, Alberta – 3
Indian Cabins, Alberta – 4
Having a look through photos for the other images, the other possible edits from last September’s jaunt up to Indian Cabins, Alberta. Liking the light, shadow, colours, lines and textures of these burial houses and the narrative(s) that can be gleaned.
Quote to Consider / Inspire – ‘Circumstantial light considers not only all the properties and behaviors of natural light, but also how that light interacts with the objects around [you], so that [you] can transform those objects into light-shaping tools.’ – Roberto Valenzuela
Listening to: Taylor McFerrin’s ‘Degrees of Light.’
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 1
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 2
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 3
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 4
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 5
Chasing Southern Alberta Cloudwork – 6
A sunny morning, early in January with my daughter. A breakfast, then dropping her off at her university dorm. From Lethbridge, I travelled along roads taking me from Coalhurst to Standoff, Cardston and Waterton Lakes National Park, then up to Pincher Creek and back home to Edmonton. Enjoying the play of light and shadow in the cloudwork of this day.
Quote to Consider / Inspire: ‘What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
Listening to: Gord Downie’s ‘Introduce Yourself;’ a song reminding of my father coping with Alzheimer’s disease.
Near Abraham Lake – Winter Grazing – 1
Near Abraham Lake – Winter Grazing – 2
Near Abraham Lake – Winter Grazing – 3
Near Abraham Lake – Winter Grazing – 4
Bighorn sheep take advantage of a windswept, mountain meadow to graze.
Quote to consider – ‘One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and on. It’s on all the time.’ – Annie Liebovitz
Listening to: Joni Mitchell’s ‘This Flight Tonight;’ a surprise to find that a Nazareth song I’d listened so often to in my teens was penned, strummed and sung by Joni Mitchell.
Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada – 1
Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada – 2
Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada – 3
From Abraham Lake to Banff National Park – 1
From Abraham Lake to Banff National Park – 2
Banff National Park – 1
Banff National Park – 2
Banff National Park – 3
Banff National Park – 4
-30C and lower temperatures – a day beginning at 2:00 a.m. with a drive from Edmonton south and west, a day at Abraham Lake and into Banff National Park.
Quote to consider – ‘The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking at so much.’ – Annie Liebovitz
Listening to: Vampire Weekend’s ‘Harmony Hall.’
Walterdale Bridge – Edmonton, Alberta
An August image of the new Walterdale Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta from Saskatchewan Drive looking through to the Alberta Legislature Building.
Quote to Consider / Inspire – ‘Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in Art.’ – Ambrose Bierce
Listening to – Rosanne Cash’s ‘The Only Thing Worth Fighting For (featuring Colin Meloy)’ and ‘The Undiscovered Country.’
Burial Houses – Rocky Lane, Alberta 1
Burial Houses – Rocky Lane, Alberta 2
A drive through Mackenze region backroads with my camera on a grey, overcast winter’s day. A cemetery holds burial houses that shelter graves of the deceased, near Rocky Lane.
Quote to Consider / Inspire – ‘Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.’ – Dorothea Lange
Listening to – Zoe Keating’s ‘Iceflow’ and ‘Forte.’
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