Day 3 - Fall Photo Weekend

The third day of the Monochrome Guild weekend in Jasper was Monday November 10th.  When we got up in the morning the snow had let up but it was cold.  We packed up and headed out after breakfast.  Our first stop was up at Portal Creek, near the Marmot Road.  This was a spectacular spot with the opening water still tumbling down the creekbed over all the boulders.  There was fresh snow on the rocks and ice forming all over... and to make matters better the clouds were beginning to lift and the sun was coming out.  In hindsight I should have brought my medium format Hasselblad system as it would have allowed me to explore many more compositions and then go back to the one or two best ones with the slower view camera.  But, I had only brought the 4x5 on this tirp so I spent the morning with that and set up four different compositions.

By about lunchtime half of our group had to pack up and hit the road home to Edmonton.  Arda, Tom, Margarit and Andrea were on their way while Court, Peter, Mark and myself stayed behind.  By the time we finished up here is was mid-afternoon.  We headed back down the hill to the Icefields Parkway and made two more stops.  The first was at the Athabasca River bridge with a spectacular view of the river and Pyramid Mountain.  The wind was brisk, the humidity high and photographing here was very uncomfortable.  I didn't even attempt to set up the 4x5 and only shot here with the digital.  Later we moved north to the Miette River bridge and shot here for a while.

Once we packed up here the day was just about done but we made a quick side trip up the Pyramid Lake Road and shot Pyramid Mountain from the shore of Patricia Lake in the beautiful early evening light.  This was the last stop as our day of shooting came to an end.  We headed back to our room after that, then went out for supper, and then settled down for the evening.  The next day would be our last in the mountains for this years Fall Photo Weekend.  I've attached six of the digital snapshots that I took during the course of day three....