Ripples interacting to form a beautiful diamond pattern — enough pattern to see the repetition, enough randomness to create interest across the frame.
Midday Ripples
Tag: water
Sound in Visual Form
My favorite part of this photo is the tension. You can feel the impending crash of the water on the rocks — two parts interacting in a violent and beautiful way.
Taken at Panther Falls, Banff.
Liquid Lens
Me interpreting water interpreting grass on a sunny day near Ya Ha Tinda.
Magical Places
Taken near Livingstone Falls in the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve.
After reading a lot of fantasy novels as a kid, moss edged pools of water in dark forests will forever be magical places for me.
Folding Water
In the mountains (especially in spring) the scale and violence of the flowing water is incredible. The power of the water is hard to communicate without the thundering you can feel down to your bones, but the acrobatics it performs while tumbling down are fun to capture. The blue-green color of the water comes from rock flour — small particles of rock suspended in the water from glaciers.
Taken at Mistaya Canyon in Banff National Park.
Flowing Water and Shutter Speeds
Returning to what seems to be my favorite subject. There are always hard decisions to be made when capturing any scene, and with this one it was shutter speed. There are things I like about both of these – I like the flow of the first, but in the second I like where the smooth water meets the ripples. I think the second is a little more unusual. Which do you like best?
1/8 of a second.
1/200 of a second.
Water near the weir at Beaverhill Lake. I had to slog through a swamp for quite a long way to get here. On the way back I found out that by going around to the north I could have avoided most of the water.
Beaver Pond
I find wildlife photography difficult — not necessarily the photographing of an animal, but the photographing of an animal artistically. I’ve been watching these beavers (Castor canadensis) doing all sorts of interesting things over the last couple of weeks. I’ve watched them chew through trees, drag them down to the water, talk to each other, slap their tails on the water, and all sorts of beaver behaviour. But photos of these fascinating activities often end up as a standard photo of a beaver. Even in beautiful evening light, a lot of shots seem to be average or only mildly interesting shots.
I’ve been trying to challenge myself to take an artistic wildlife photo. To mix my landscape aesthetic with animal subjects. This is what I’ve come up with so far. This beaver created some beautiful sunset reflections in his pond for me.
Small Pool of Water
I love the way frost grows at the edges of open water.
Reflections in Modeste Creek
Frost Beside Flowing Water
Water, frost and ice in Johnston Canyon. What? No, I didn’t say anything about Georgia O’Keefe.
