On Feb. 22 I spent the night camped in my van next to Abraham Lake, in the Bighorn Wildlands. The area is also known as the Kootenay Plains,and is just east and bordering Banff and Jasper National Parks. I have only started exploring this area this winter and I am completely amazed at how many times I've driven by Highway 11 and never thought to explore! The area is gorgeous and more people should go there to explore it's beauty. The couple of times I've been there this winter I have barely seen more than two cars on the road and have never seen another person hiking around! Last Tuesday I woke to clear skies and what appeared to be a beautiful day ahead of me! Well I was right. I first headed out onto the lake to shoot the sunrise with all the ice formations leading into the mountains, I've seen these shots before, from Darwin Wiggett, and have wanted to got shoot this stuff for a while now to add to my own library. So here are a few of the shots I came home with....
PS....the second and third images are made from a single exposure, no HDR...just smart use of Graduated Neutral Density filters. The first image was a 20 second shot, done at f/4 @ ISO 400. The moon was over my right shoulder to illuminate the valley and road.
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