And here is the rest of day 2 in Alberta and Northwest Territories… the sunset and the northern lights! Sunset, over one of Canada’s innumerable boreal forests. A pair of otters. If anyone wonders why I spend so much time between blog posts… it’s the sheer quantity of photos I have to process. I took about 200 just of these otters! (One came out.) Full moon, perched on top of [...]
A day spent in Northwest Territories … here’s just the first half, because I took 1560 photos that day, so I am breaking it in two. No northern lights in this batch; you can all go home now. Painted skies at dawn. A seagull at the Mackenzie River ferry. Yep, they do have them even thousands of miles from the nearest sea. Some yellow and some evergreens. […]
And here we start three days of photos from Alberta and Northwest Territories. I flew into Edmonton for the weekend (Friday-Sunday) of September 9th, as that is one of two annual peaks for the northern lights. Did I see the northern lights? In the interest of maintaining suspense, I’m not going to say quite yet. Sunset. Usually shooting directly into the sun is a bad idea. Sometimes it isn’t. The [...]