During the short days of the winter, the south facing side of Cascade Mountain sees the first light every morning. Giving the peak a beautiful glow. With the peak's physical location to the town of Banff, most pictures of the mountain are taken from the town's roads. One of my favourite place to take pictures of Cascade is just west of the town. In this case around the Marsh Loop trail.
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Amar
I came across this Red Fox on a cold morning, she was busy hunting for food, in this case for voles. She was on the side of the road, I stopped my car to the side and turned off the engine. Giving her quite space from a distance to focus on hunting. I watched her hunt for few minutes before she left the area. But before that happened I was watched her amazing tail. There are few roles the big bushy tail plays, providing balance, warmth on cold winter days and it's also used for communicating with other foxes. Chocolate does the same thing for me.
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Amar
The American marten is active year around, with the tracks I come across on the snow, one would think they would be more often spotted. They are always busy, always curious searching for food. This one was travelling by, when it saw me it climbed up a tree for safety. Once I moved on, it came back down and was on its way.
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Amar
It was very windy this morning, so I decided not to look for water for the reflection of the beautiful sunrise. Instead I stood over the frozen snow covered Bow River with ski tracks from the day before. For about ten minutes the sky lit up and I kept taking pictures until the fire went out.
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Amar
It was a surprise coming across these two moose, a mother and her calf, they have a look as if they were surprised by me in turn, as if they were up to no good. Earlier that day a truck had dropped a bit of dirt while going by on this small side road. For moose as for other members of the deer family, winters are a big challenge for survival. There is very little to eat, and what there is provides very little energy. They are hungry, waiting for spring when food will be available that will help them gain the weight they lost over the winter. So when they come across some dirt that may have minerals their body needs, its worth getting down on their knees for it.
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Amar
Raven is one bird I can always cont on seeing or hearing no matter where I am in the mountains and no matter what the weather is like. They are very adaptable and always are able to find what they need to survive in harsh conditions. This one was hanging around the road, looking for food I imagine.
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Amar
The temperature was around minus 35 Celsius in the morning when I was out there looking for things to photography. I was hoping to come across wildlife or perhaps see something around the river that would be interesting. Wildlife opportunity came after I saw the fog that was created by the cold air moving over the much warmer running water in the Bow River. And I liked the way light was coming through the fog around the trees located next to the river. I grabbed few pictures until it got to0 cold, this one was my keeper.
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Amar
Few times a year I like to walk through the Johnston Canyon. Being one of the more popular hike year around, I tend to hike it before anyone else shows up. Having the place to myself for a short while, I get to take pictures without getting me or my equipment in anyones way. Seeing the narrow canyon during different seasons, one gets to see the different faces of the place. When the snow starts to melt during the warm days in the spring, the power of the water is amazing. And during the cold winter days , the beauty created with water and ice by nature is worth seeing even during a very cold morning.
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Amar
Couple of months ago this male elk got yellow rope tangled onto its antlers. Every week or so I come across him, he's doing well. The rope is now mostly tangled on just one of his antlers. He might just have to wait until April when his antlers will fall off, along with the rope.
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Amar
This bull moose was making its way through the meadow full of willow shrubs. It was toward the end of the day, perhaps he was done with eating and resting in the open, it was time to head into the woods for the night.
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Amar
The sun was setting and I did not have enough time to get to location where i was headed to take pictures of Castle Mtn. So I decided to stop along the road I was travelling on and take the picture of the mountain, providing me with a different prospective of the sunset and the mountain.
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Amar
I'm not much into New Year resolutions, because for me there is only one thing I want to do and do more of it, next year and the year after that and the year after that. That is eat more chocolate, oops sorry, I mean take more pictures. Nature photography is my way of having balance in life, the more pictures I take the better every other part of my life is. I use photography to connect with people and I use photography to connect with nature.
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Amar
A female white-tailed deer was bit nervous, she kept looking to the right of her. I was not able to see or hear anything, but she eventually decided to leave the area with her fawn.
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Amar
It's absolutely beautiful out there, with the snow and the winter crisp air, this how I like Canadian winters. The last few weeks I needed to have several layers on, but it's worth it when I'm outside. Coming across beautiful landscapes to take pictures of and every now and then seeing wildlife making its way through the snow. Always looking forward to the next day out.
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Amar
After being out there for couple of hours, I started to head back when the snow started to fall. As I came around a turn, there front of me separated by 10 meters of shrubs and small trees were two moose, a mother and her calf. The calf was surprised and moved back, I moved back as well and watched to see the mother's reaction. She looked at me for few seconds and then went back to eating. I moved further back and watched her and the nervous calf who had her ears pointed at me and looked at her mother to decide what to do. The calf was only about half a year old and was still learning a lot from her mother. Noticing her mother felt safe, the cafe made her way back to the safety of her mom. I standing there in the snow storm, took few pictures before leaving the two twig eaters.
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Amar
I was taking picture of a moose calf with its mother nearby. It was end of the day when I came across both of them, at first the calf moved away while the mother stayed put. Soon the calf started to walk towards it mother, as I was taking its pictures, the mother popped her head front of my camera.I guess she wanted some attention as well.
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Amar
While I was driving along the road I came across this female Red Fox. It has been a good year for seeing fox, Banff National Park always had foxes, but I never had much luck seeing them. So it has been great coming across them this year and added bonus being able to get their pictures.
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Amar
Today was the Christmas Bird Count day in the Bow Valley, the night before there was a weather alert for this morning. Temperature around - 32 Celsius and called for heavy winds to bring windchill to under - 42. Waking up this morning the alert was removed, the temperature was only - 24 and the windy was only bringing it down to - 38. Piece of cake, well it was while wearing a coat loaned to me for the day by a friend, with the heavy parka, cold was never an issue except for my hand when I took pictures. And I only did that when there was a good chance of getting a good image, the one attached was the best one of an amazing bird, the American Dipper, who did not seem to be bothered by the cold weather as he went in and out of the open water to find food. The three friends I was with and others out in the valley were challenged today, but in a small way we got to connect with this dipper and few other birds we came across on a very cold day. And for them there is no warm home to go to at the end of the day.
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Amar
I took this picture few weeks ago, it was still warm and there was still lot of open water. Each winter the shape of the open water remaining is slightly different, providing different opportunities for sunrises and sunsets for the foreground.
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Amar
I got this picture as the full moon was rising over Tunnel Mountain yesterday evening. The sky was clear, it was just matter of waiting in the cold for the moon to reach top of the mountain before I could take few pictures, worth the wait.
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Amar
