This week’s photo of the week is the first of my images from the morning’s shoot at Wedge Pond on my trip out to Kananaskis with Darwin Wiggett and Wayne Simpson just over a week ago.

As we headed out form the campground hoping for a great sunrise, we very quickly realized that just wasn’t in the cards that day. Thick and low lying clouds were covering the entire valley and we couldn’t even make out any of the surrounding peaks. After looking around a little and discussing what some of our options were, we decided to head over to Wedge Pond to see what we could come up with. We figured that if some light did materialize and the clouds broke up, we’d be in a good spot to capture it but if not we’d at least have some options for detail shots. As we headed down the path towards the flooded shoreline of the pond, we quickly forgot all about trying to capture a great sunrise and simply immersed ourselves in the beautiful scene around us. As we began to look around, even before taking out our cameras, more and more potential shots came into view and before long we were each in our own little world and hard at work making images. We ended up spending several hours wandering around the pond making images of the shoreline, trees, reflections, pathways, wildflowers, and anything else that caught our eyes. It was so relaxing to just take our time and really explore the scene and make images as we saw them. We easily could have spent more time there but our stomachs and the unfortunate reality of our busy schedules back home were all that forced us to leave that morning. This was by far one of the most enjoyable outings I’ve been on in a long time.

Here’s one of the first few images I made that morning looking across the perfectly calm water to the shoreline on the opposite side. I’ll have a few more images from the morning coming in another post later this week, stay tuned…