The waterfall near the first bridge at Maligne Canyon just before winter set in. It was actually lightly snowing when I took this shot which helped to reduce the dynamic range and allow this to be taken as a single image. The snow was rendered invisible as it’s a 20 second exposure at f/16. It is a very deep canyon and I wanted to get a large depth of field with the f/16 without having to spend all day focus stacking. It is much deeper than it looks; if you scroll right back in my feed I have some shots of people ice climbing on this waterfall from the previous winter which provide a sense of scale. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Some bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) building their nest as winter sets in. They were setting this nest up near Medicine Lake in Jasper National Park which is an area where it regularly gets to -35C (-31 F) in the winter. Hard to imagine anything nesting that high up in the Canadian Rockies. Alberta, Canada
The last Aurora we were lucky enough to capture in 2018 a few days before the New Year. We had this display up at a particularly frosty Pyramid Lake in Jasper National Park; and it was quite dynamic to the eye. Aurora have been few and far between this last 12 months, so let’s hope this year we can officially call out 2018 as the solar minimum and things begin to pick up. That’s Pyramid Mountain shrouded in cloud on the left at 2,766m or 9,075ft.
