Show off your winter landscapes that you have captured this year

[freelanceshots]

Lets start a Winter Landscape thread. Seems like there's enough interest. I updated the title where it already looks like it was under the assignments section I think. I missed correctly identifying that area when I made the post.

[Ehcalum]

Here are a couple.

[Jonathan Huyer]

Great thread! This is one of my favourite topics. But that's not a surprise, because as they say, up here we get 8 months of winter and 4 months of bad skiing. []


Sunrise at Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park, Christmas Eve 2010
Canon 5D2, 24 mm TS-E, 47 sec @ f/22, ISO 50, 5 stop solid ND


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[DLS]

Beautiful Jonathan! That

[Joel Eade]

A creek near my home just after sunrise


1DMKIII


Sigma 8-16mm f/5.6 at 13mm


ISO 50


1/640


Manual mode, evaluative metering


Topaz Adjust used to simulate HDR (my apologies to those who don't like the effect)


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[erno james]

Jonathan, what a wonderful image you captured. The foreground, midground, and background elements are so well composed. That sunrise has got me inspired to wake up early (one of these days)!


Joel, no need to apologize. Your image is just as inspiring.


Great job fellas, erno.

[Fast Glass]

1DMKIII


Sigma 8-16mm f/5.6 at 13mm

So the 8-16mm does work on 1.3 crop cameras, but wouldn't you be better off with the 12-24mm? It goes to 12mm; hasless vigeneting and less distortion.


John.

[Joel Eade]

John,


I bought the 8-16 sigma at a camera store after briefly trying it out at the counter and I liked the extreme fish-eye effect, I didn

[Jonathan Huyer]

Thanks very much Damian and Erno. Yes, that's Mt. Rundle. The drive would be more like 1.5 hours from Calgary, but fortunately I started in Canmore so it was only 30 minutes away. Sunrise around the winter solstice is not until 8:45, so it's a very easy wake-up call.


Thinking of the thread, "The Story Behind the Shot", here's a wild story that goes with this photo: I nearly missed getting this shot, because I had to stop on the highway when I came across a pickup truck that was on fire. Actually, it was the cargo that was burning, and the cargo happened to be a load of wrapped Christmas presents (!). I have no idea what could have sparked the fire. I called 911 while the owners were frantically throwing burning presents out of the truck into the snow. Fortunately, they got the fire out, and everyone was okay, but the presents were a write-off. I then carried on to the lake, quickly composed this view, and had only about 5 minutes left to get the shot.


By the way Damian, your profile is great. Love it!

[DLS]

Ha, ha thanks Jonathan. Let me just say that if I had to live in Alta., I