A Stormy Pyramid Lake

A Stormy Pyramid Lake

A few years ago my mom and I took a few days to visit some favourite places in Jasper National Park for my birthday. This is one of those places, looking across Pyramid Lake from the island you can hike to from the lodge.

Taken on Pyramid Lake near Jasper, AB, Canada on October 11, 2015, with my old Canon Rebel XS DSLR camera with a Canon EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM wide-angle kit lens.

Autumn Storm Clouds

Autumn Storm Clouds

It was the last part of the day to get some harvesting done at the Breton Plots crops research trials, and my boss and I were just getting the last sacks of hand-sickle harvested wheat on the truck when we both noticed these dark clouds starting to roll in on us, threatening rain. But the sun was still shining, lighting up these poplar and aspen trees so they looked like yellow fire against a darkening sky! This photo was shot with, believe it or not, my iPhone 6, which I have a habit of carrying with me wherever I go. The moment was certainly ephemeral, because no more than a few minutes later the sun disappeared behind the clouds, and it started to sprinkle…

Taken at the Breton Plots near Breton, AB, Canada on October 2, 2015, with my old iPhone 4S camera (4.28 mm f/2.4).