Winter has arrived! At least science tells us that it has arrived. Here in southern Alberta a chinook has settled in, it’s 9C today.

Only a small distance to the west in the Rocky Mountains a true winter storm has closed many highways and leaving travellers stranded. Hopefully it will move through quickly to allow people to get where they want to go to celebrate Christmas.

The days being so short make really good night photography opportunities. Normally I would make an event out of it and grab a tripod, an old film camera with a cable release and head out to a few favorite spots to make some photographs, but it was raining, and I’ve not been so inspired the last few months with making photographs. So I grabbed a digital camera, mainly so I could bump up the ASA setting and shoot handheld.

None of these shots are anything special, but I do like night photography, next time I’ll bring along the tripod.

Enjoy!
Dean Chartier