Blue Hour On Maligne Lake
The 4:30 AM alarm hurt pretty bad, but we needed to be packed and ready to roll by 5 AM, so Todd and I groggily scrambled to get our stuff together before jumping in the van to pick up Todd and Mark who were living the high life over in the Fairmont Lodge in Jasper. As we headed up to Maligne Lake, I was driving a bit faster than I should have as I wanted to make sure we were in position before any color crept into the sky. I slowed down pretty quickly though as I rounded a corner and came face to face with the largest bull moose I had ever seen.
The first light was just beginning to creep into the sky as all four of us set up on the Northern shore of the lake and proceeded to shoot some long exposures of the boat house which was glowing brightly against the deep, early morning light.
We spent the next half hour or so agonizing over the fact that we were looking at some very nice looking clouds, but there was no real color to be seen. Just as all four of us gave up hope, I yelled "COLOR!" as the slightest wisp of pink had now appeared on one of the clouds in the distance. Sure enough, 5 minutes later, the sky exploded in early morning color and we shot like mad men right up until 9 am when we stopped to purchase our tickets for the trip out to Spirit Island.
Other than the area surrounding Lake O'Hara, the other location I was most looking forward to shooting was Maligne Lake. On this particular morning, we were very grateful that the skies had parted, the rain had stopped, and that the sun had come through as if on cue. I'm sure I blew through more than a thousand frames over the course of the next few hours before it was finally time to head to lunch and then South again to Canmore.
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Blue Hour On Maligne Lake
The 4:30 AM alarm hurt pretty bad, but we needed to be packed and ready to roll by 5 AM, so Todd and I groggily scrambled to get our stuff together before jumping in the van to pick up Todd and Mark who were living the high life over in the Fairmont Lodge in Jasper. As we headed up to Maligne Lake, I was driving a bit faster than I should have as I wanted to make sure we were in position before any color crept into the sky. I slowed down pretty quickly though as I rounded a corner and came face to face with the largest bull moose I had ever seen.
The first light was just beginning to creep into the sky as all four of us set up on the Northern shore of the lake and proceeded to shoot some long exposures of the boat house which was glowing brightly against the deep, early morning light.
We spent the next half hour or so agonizing over the fact that we were looking at some very nice looking clouds, but there was no real color to be seen. Just as all four of us gave up hope, I yelled "COLOR!" as the slightest wisp of pink had now appeared on one of the clouds in the distance. Sure enough, 5 minutes later, the sky exploded in early morning color and we shot like mad men right up until 9 am when we stopped to purchase our tickets for the trip out to Spirit Island.
Other than the area surrounding Lake O'Hara, the other location I was most looking forward to shooting was Maligne Lake. On this particular morning, we were very grateful that the skies had parted, the rain had stopped, and that the sun had come through as if on cue. I'm sure I blew through more than a thousand frames over the course of the next few hours before it was finally time to head to lunch and then South again to Canmore.
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Thank you so much for your views and comments! If you have specific questions please be sure to send me a message via flickr mail, or feel free to contact me via one of the following: