A rising moon as the last of the setting sun illuminates the peaks of the mountains. The stark contrast of light was compensated by overexposing the sky and the open the shadows during the editing process.
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Moon rising above Rocky Mountains

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Moon rising above Rocky Mountains

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Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks with the setting sun embracing the last of the daylight. One of the most popular destinations for photographers in the Rocky Mountains near Banff. All the while using a polarizer filter to accentuate the sky and color
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Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park

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Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park

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Moraine Lake in Banff National Park aka Valley of the Ten Peaks. A true jewel in the Rocky Mountains. A sunset moment, just the quiet and stillness. Reflections in the water.
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Moraine Lake in Banff National Park aka Valley of the Ten Peaks. A true jewel in the Rocky Mountains. 

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Moraine Lake in Banff National Park aka Valley of the Ten Peaks. A true jewel in the Rocky Mountains. 

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Chateau Lake Louise in winter setting, with daylight fading quickly allowing for blue hour photography. Exposures can be critical in blue hour monitoring the histogram for rapid light changes.
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Chateau Lake Louise, Banff 

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Chateau Lake Louise, Banff 

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Lake Louise as night approaches, a surreal calm and quiet on the lake. I love the creativity of night photography how iso and shutter speed affect the outcomes. Watching cloud movement with slow shutter speeds adding to blur effects.
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Lake Louise, Banff

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Lake Louise, Banff

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Mount Rundle reflecting in Vermillion Lake as the sun rises to back light the mountain.. Another iconic scene which changes by the hour especially at sunrise or sunset and winter or summer.
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Mount Rundle at sunrise

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Mount Rundle at sunrise

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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years. The Banff Springs Hotel is an engineering marvel. Sulphur Mountain gondola in the background is a great ride at night
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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years.

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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years.

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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years. With the Sulphur Mountain gondola in the background.
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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years.

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Banff Springs Hotel a Unesco World Heritage Site has been serving customers for over 130 years.

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Waterfalls from the Grassi Lakes near Canmore, Alberta. It has a challenging hike to the top but is worth it. Keeping the shutter speed slow enough to create the freeze in motion affect.
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Grassi lakes trail hike and waterfalls

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Grassi lakes trail hike and waterfalls

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Morant's Curve in Banff National Park, made famous by Canadian Pacific Railway photographer Nicholas Morant. a lookout point was created to photograph the train.
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Morant's Curve near Lake Louise

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Morant's Curve near Lake Louise

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Lake Louise in Banff National Park which attracts tourist from all over the world. A photographer's paradise winter and summer. I use wide angle lens from 10mm to 24mm in the mountains to capture the entire scene and editing or slight cropping in my edit
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Lake Louise, Banff National Park

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Lake Louise, Banff National Park

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Castle Mountain Along the Bow River near Lake Louise in Banff National Park. Using the rule of thirds to balance the photograph. Golden hour produces the best colors and shadows to highlight the mountain
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Castle Mountain in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

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Castle Mountain in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

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An Igloo built on Vermillion Lake with Rundle Mountain in the background. Banff National Park. Photo taken at dusk producing warmer snow and clouds and creating greater contrast with the sky.
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An Igloo built on Vermillion Lake with Rundle Mountain in the background. Banff National Park.

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An Igloo built on Vermillion Lake with Rundle Mountain in the background. Banff National Park.

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Cheam Mountain near Agassi B.C. An beautiful mountain range with towering peaks from the forest floor. The contrast from the forest and sky created a very nice composition.
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Cheam Mountain near Agassi B.C. An beautiful mountain range with towering peaks from the forest floor.

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Cheam Mountain near Agassi B.C. An beautiful mountain range with towering peaks from the forest floor.

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Chateau Lake Louise Ice Castle. Produced by Fire and Ice Co. with all the ice coming from Saskatoon. Used exposure compensation shooting into the sun gave great light effect through the ice.
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Chateau Lake Louise Ice Castle. Produced by Fire and Ice Co. with all the ice coming from Saskatoon.

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Chateau Lake Louise Ice Castle. Produced by Fire and Ice Co. with all the ice coming from Saskatoon.

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Clarks Nutcracker at Lake Louise with the glacier in the background. Had to use fast shutter speed to freeze action the wings of the bird.
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A Clark's nutcracker comes to feed.

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A Clark's nutcracker comes to feed.

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Rundle Mountain from Vermilion Lake made for a beautiful reflection. used a polarizer filter to enhance the blues drawing a greater contrast of the sky in the reflection. A tripod allowed me to use a slower shutter speed.
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Rundle Mountain from Vermilion Lake

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Rundle Mountain from Vermilion Lake

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An early dawn exposure of the top of the mountain provided the details in this photograph and the use of a 3 stop graduating ND filter prevented over exposure
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Cascade Mountain sunrise from the Cascade Ponds in Banff

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Cascade Mountain sunrise from the Cascade Ponds in Banff

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The Cascade Ponds just north of Banff are great place for a stroll in the snow with mountains all around you. The sunrise illuminating the mountains are stunning with the partial cloud and haze
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Rundle Mountain at sunrise from Cascade Ponds

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Rundle Mountain at sunrise from Cascade Ponds

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The town of Banff taken at dusk from atop Sulphur Mountain howling wind using the guard rail to steady the camera. ISO 800
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Town of Banff, Alberta in Banff National Park

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Town of Banff, Alberta in Banff National Park

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A mountain range in Banff National Park photographed from Vermillion Lakes. Photographed predawn using higher iso and higher f stop to capture all the detail, to keep everything in focus.
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A mountain range in Banff National Park

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A mountain range in Banff National Park

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Early morning fog beginning to lift with an amazing glow pre sunrise, again a higher f stop to keep everything in sharp focus.
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Waterton Lakes Foggy sunrise

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Waterton Lakes Foggy sunrise

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Fairy Creek Falls near Fernie BC. A 5 km hike round trip hike that paralleled the creek. Put my camera on a tripod using a circular polarizer filter f20 and a 1/2 second shutter speed giving a nice blur of the falls.
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Ferry Creek near Fernie BC. in the Canadian Rockies. A 5 km round trip through lush BC forests.

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Ferry Creek near Fernie BC. in the Canadian Rockies. A 5 km round trip through lush BC forests.

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The Bow River at sunrise cresting the Rocky Mountains with the warm shining through the clouds.. Camera on a tripod to include a sharper foreground. Edited slightly in Luminar to enhance the reflection on the water.
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The Bow River In Banff National Park with the head waters coming from Bow Lake.

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The Bow River In Banff National Park with the head waters coming from Bow Lake.

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