Apart from photographing nature and landscapes, I really enjoy photographing architectural details like doors.  Doors are literally everywhere and not only are doors often full of great details and textures; they also have a lot of symbolism associated with them. An open door can symbolize opportunity, walking through a door can symbolize change, and closed door can symbolize mystery.

Here are a few photographs of doors that I’ve made this year.

I will be selling my landscape prints at the Home Business Fair at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino this Sunday, June 13th. The fair runs from 10am – 4pm and will feature over 35 different vendors.  If you are in the Calgary area, I urge you to come on by. It would be great to see/meet you!

Elbow River
Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

This photo was made the same morning as the photo in Behind the Photograph #1. After shooting the waterfall, I continued looking for other compositions and found this several meters upstream. By this time, some nice colour in the sky was starting to develop so I looked for a foreground, which I could pair with it.

I felt that these rocks made a good foreground because they were interesting and because they form a triangle that leads the viewer’s eye in to the scene. I also liked the great colours in the water in the middle ground.

I once again used my 24mm TS-E lens (my favorite landscape lens) on my Canon 5Dmk2 and I tilted the lens for maximum depth of field. I also used a polarizer, to help eliminate the reflections of the water and a 2 stop ND grad filter to get a properly exposed sky. The final exposure was 3.2 seconds at f/8.

At home on the computer, I tweaked the contrast, slightly boosted the saturation. Then I used the tonal contrast filter from Nik’s Color Efex Pro, to help bring out the nice textures in the foreground rocks. Finally, I resized, sharpened, and saved the image for the web.

Here is a quick snap shot taken with my Canon G11 of my camera setup on location.