This week’s photo is from the same location as last week’s image up on the Icefields Parkway. After shooting the sunrise and making my way back towards my truck and some hot breakfast, I stopped to make a few detail images along the banks of the stream. I liked the combination of the new green leaves of the bushes against the cooler blue of the stream in the background. With the sun not fully up yet, the valley was still shaded which provided the perfect light for some water motion shots. It took a little experimenting to determine a shutter speed that would provide a nice blur to the water without losing all of the texture (1/6th of a sec in this case), but once I found the look I was after, it was just a matter of framing up the shot and then waiting for a break in the breeze to keep the leaves from moving during the exposure.

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