On July 25th, Jardene Photography, made their way to the scenic spot of the Bow lake. Our intention was to capture the milky way at around 1am in the morning. We scouted the area for about 90 minutes and chose a spot that we believe was not photographed before. We then went back to Lake Louise and fueled up and called home to inform the family that we would be out of cell phone coverage most of the night. We returned to the spot with all our equipment and set up. We waited about 3 hours for the stars to come out and the clouds to disperse. At around 12:30am the moon set, and the brilliance of the stars could be seen. We could make out the milky way with the naked eye. We waited another 30 minutes for the milky way to move off the mountain and get to where we wanted the shot. At 1am we started collecting 9 photos and the tenth for the foreground. The shot was assembled the next day after rest and food. The result was a 9 stacked shot with the milky way and the 10th shot for the foreground. In the image you can make out the Bow Glacier and the Bow Lake. What do you think? Leave us a comment or a request.

On 11th July, Jardene photography, drove to Banff National Park and toured three lakes. The first was Moraine Lake arriving just before 5am, we captured some great shots. The second was Lake Louise which we arrived around 06:30am. We have never seen Lake Louise so calm.

The third we drove past Field, BC and into Emerald Lake. The photo of Emerald lake was disappointing because the sun rose about the mountain and destroyed the shots. Even with an ND filter the shot was too dark with too many shadows. Lesson learnt, Emerald Lake requires a sunset to capture properly.

Below are the three primary images we captured during this 9 hour tour.

From, June 12th to June 15th, Jardene photography was in Jasper National park hiking and looking for wild life. We took several photos included in our collection during this long weekend.

Under the Landscape category we added the following…

Under the Wild Life category we added the following…

Jardene Photography held a draw in May 2020 for a print from our collection.

The response was overwhelming with over 400 people joining our Facebook page and commenting on their favourite photograph.

The winner of the draw was picked out of a bowl by my 10-year-old daughter in a random draw with all the people that liked our page and commented on our post. Congratulations are in order to Donna from Saskatchewan. Donna received a 17″ x 22″ print of our Award-winning photo of Moraine Lake Blue Hour.