Here is another shot from my quick trip up to Herbert Lake last week with Wayne Simpson. (Make sure you stop by his blog too by the way, and check out his shot from the morning) After a stop for coffee in Lake Louise, we decided to jump on the Bow Valley Parkway for the ride back towards Banff to see if we might find some wildlife to shoot. While we ended up not seeing a single critter the whole way, we did find some nice light to shoot in at the Muleshoe picnic area. With the sun not very high in the sky yet, the light was still relatively soft and the fresh snow was backlit and sparkling beautifully. The aspen trees were kind of caked with snow on one side which made things a little challenging being that they really only looked good from one angle, and that we were shooting straight into the sun! Up for a challenge, we set out with telephoto lenses trying to isolate groups of trees against the cool white and blue backgrounds. Unfortunately for me, I was just not making it work and having a hard time capturing anything I really liked. It wasn’t until pulled out the wide angle lens and got right down into the trees and up close that things started to look interesting.

Here’s what I ended up with, hope you like it!