In the Field

Elements: Ice, Water, Rock. Dead Horse Creek, Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary, AB, Canada. November 1, 1992.

During the image selection phase of building this website I decided that no nature photographer's website would be complete unless it included an image of a mountain stream with water blurred by a slow shutter speed. So here's mine. And, I had a devil of a time finding such an image in my collection - it would appear I'm less enamoured by these images than others are! So...from the archives (and despite being shot with the nature photographer's old standard of super-saturated Velvia film) comes this nearly monochromatic image!

I recall being attracted to this particular subset of the entire stream by two things: the simplicity of the scene (composed almost entirely of only the three "elements" of ice, water, and rock) and the strong diagonal separation in the scene formed by the two large rocks in the central portion of the image. I've included this image in the "Extracts" gallery primarily because the final image (and the part of the stream that is represented) was just a tiny subset of stream and overall scene.

Behind the Camera

Elements: Ice, Water, Rock. Dead Horse Creek, Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary, AB, Canada. November 1, 1992.

Film Capture; Fujichrome Velvia; ISO 50.

Nikon F4S with with Nikon 35-135 mm f/3.5-5.6 AF lens supported on tripod (make and model not recorded). Polarizing filter used.

2.0s @ f8; No compensation from matrix-metered exposure setting.

At the Computer

Elements: Ice, Water, Rock. Dead Horse Creek, Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary, AB, Canada. November 1, 1992.

Details to follow.

Conservation

Elements: Ice, Water, Rock. Dead Horse Creek, Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary, AB, Canada. November 1, 1992.

Information to follow.