Autumn Sunrise In Assiniboine
So...when you're standing up on the Nublet trail after waking up at dark thirty and you're freezing your butt off and by the grace of God some light actually breaks through and lights up the clouds and peaks in front of you...the temptation is to stand and gawk like an idiot with your mouth hanging open. And then a small voice inside your head screams at you, reminding you have maybe 30 seconds before that light disappears forever and the clock is ticking.
My earlier shot of this scene that I posted last year is probably a nicer composition, but my first instinct (once I remembered I had a camera in front of me) was to go wide as the three lakes surrounding Sunburst Peak comprise one of the most dramatic scenes in the Canadian Rockies. It's a bit rough compositionally as you need to include quite a bit of rocky terrain in the foreground, but I feel it gives a better impression of what it was like to stand there gawking on that mountainside last year...with my heart still pounding from the hike up, and the wind howling...hoping against hope that some light would break through. No matter what I came up with...it fell short of what it was actually like to be there and to realize, while you are shooting, that this is another one of those moments when time stands still and you feel completely alive. Miles from the Southern California traffic i had left at back at LAX...miles from deadlines and long lists of chores that were piling up...for those few moments I got to witness this in person, shivering on that mountainside.
And then it was gone, just as quickly as it appeared.
I was reminded again how important it was to LIVE the moment rather than just capture the moment. To not get so bogged down by camera settings, lenses and trying to get my frozen fingers work while I set up the tripod...but to take that extra moment to breathe and soak it in...before it all disappears...before you get back on the plane, and sit in the traffic on the way home, dreaming of what it was like to shoot for four days in one of the most gorgeous spots on the planet.
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Autumn Sunrise In Assiniboine
So...when you're standing up on the Nublet trail after waking up at dark thirty and you're freezing your butt off and by the grace of God some light actually breaks through and lights up the clouds and peaks in front of you...the temptation is to stand and gawk like an idiot with your mouth hanging open. And then a small voice inside your head screams at you, reminding you have maybe 30 seconds before that light disappears forever and the clock is ticking.
My earlier shot of this scene that I posted last year is probably a nicer composition, but my first instinct (once I remembered I had a camera in front of me) was to go wide as the three lakes surrounding Sunburst Peak comprise one of the most dramatic scenes in the Canadian Rockies. It's a bit rough compositionally as you need to include quite a bit of rocky terrain in the foreground, but I feel it gives a better impression of what it was like to stand there gawking on that mountainside last year...with my heart still pounding from the hike up, and the wind howling...hoping against hope that some light would break through. No matter what I came up with...it fell short of what it was actually like to be there and to realize, while you are shooting, that this is another one of those moments when time stands still and you feel completely alive. Miles from the Southern California traffic i had left at back at LAX...miles from deadlines and long lists of chores that were piling up...for those few moments I got to witness this in person, shivering on that mountainside.
And then it was gone, just as quickly as it appeared.
I was reminded again how important it was to LIVE the moment rather than just capture the moment. To not get so bogged down by camera settings, lenses and trying to get my frozen fingers work while I set up the tripod...but to take that extra moment to breathe and soak it in...before it all disappears...before you get back on the plane, and sit in the traffic on the way home, dreaming of what it was like to shoot for four days in one of the most gorgeous spots on the planet.
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Thank you so much for your views and comments! If you have specific questions or need to get in touch with me, please be sure to send me a message via flickr mail, or feel free to contact me via one of the following: