This month's calendar features a Trumpeter Swan in the Bow River near Carburn Park in SE Calgary. Migration season is just around the corner but with the extreme cold weather that we've had for weeks in Calgary this bird seems to be a little overly optimistic. Having siad that it didn't seem to be bothered by the cold at all and was happily eating and preening in the water.
This month's calendar features an image from the Bow River in Calgary. It got very cold and very windy over the last few days and as a result some really cool ice crystals formed on the surface near the shore of the Bow River. It mostly looks like wind blown snow until you get really close and then you realize that it really is crystallized ice. The patterns in the ice are very interesting and they look amazingly different from different angles and depending on where the sun hits them!
This month's calendar features a vee formation of Canada Geese flying over the Bow River in SE Calgary. It was a very bright and hazy day and the geese were almost lost in the haze and the light of the sun behind them.
This month's calendar features an icy wintery landscape scene from the shores of the Bow River. It was an extremely cold day and a beautiful layer of ice fog blanketed the river. I saw the soft bumps of the rocks on the shoreline covered in snow and knew that I had to create this image for the calendar this month!
This months calendar image comes from a recent trip to Cypress Hills Provincial Park. We were rewarded with incredible sunsets right in our campsite every night. This image of the sun setting behind the trees and a picnic table in the campground is one of my favorite from the trip.