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When I saw that the skies were staying clear, I headed out for a bit of night photography -- after all, what else should I have done on the last day of the Jasper Dark Sky Festival? I was pretty happy with my shots while I was there -- and even happier when I got home and realised I'd captured a bit of aurora without even noticing. Truly an accidental aurora! Camera: Nikon D750 w/ 16-35mm f/4 lens ISO3200, 30s @f4

The rocks of the gorge at Athabasca Falls are fascinating. Not only are they stunning colours, but the shapes betray how years and years of water movement have shaped the entirety of the gorge.

Pyramid Mountain - Jasper

Lake Herbert, Icefields Parkway, Banff national Park, Alberta

Bow Lake with view of the Crowfoot Mountain and Bow Peak at far left on an overcast summer evening, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

From about halfway up the C-Level Cirque track on the side of Banff's Cascade Mountain, we found a lookout with my favourite view of the day. While Lake Minnewanka is gorgeous to visit, its waters are often rough; this angle smoothed them out as well as showing just how large the lake really is!

Lake Herbert, Icefields Parkway, Banff national Park, Alberta

Lake Herbert, Icefields Parkway, Banff national Park, Alberta

Lake Herbert, Icefields Parkway, Banff national Park, Alberta

Lake Herbert, Icefields Parkway, Banff national Park, Alberta

When we passed 7,000ft on our way uphill to the Larch Valley, the green pine trees started to give way to the gold of larches. The view of them stretching into the distance with the mountains behind was something else!

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Mountain landscape in Banff National Park

I had to be very careful to compose my shot and make sure that I didn't step on any of the perfect baubles of snow all along the shoreline at Castle Junction! I love the look of fresh snow when you can still see the shapes (and occasional peeks) of what it is covering.

Pyramid Island in Pyramid Lake, with Pyramid Mountain above...and all of it reflected again below! I'm not sure if there are enough landforms in Jasper named after pyramids...

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I headed out from Cave & Basin with a small group of fellow hikers on an overcast morning, but by the time we made it to this spot on the Bow River, the weather had turned. The river was calm, Cascade Mountain was white with fresh snow, and the sun was warm. Perfection!

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Athabasca River - Jasper

A week before the Jasper SkyTram closed for the season and there was already plenty of snow at the top! What we anticipated to be a fairly short trip up turned into a full afternoon of walking around on the top of Mount Whistlers, enjoying the crunch of snow under our feet and the epic views all around us.

Mount Robson is the most prominent mountain in North America's Rocky Mountain range; it is also the highest point in the Canadian Rockies.

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Retro Lake Louise Banff National Park travel poster art by Sassan Filsoof

Waputik Peak in the Canadian Rocky Mountains from Icefields Parkway

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Tangle Falls in Jasper National Park doing its best to fight the onset of winter back in October. I doubt it won in the end!

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Lake Louise is often pictured in wide angle, showing off the waters of the lake itself as well as the mountains that tower above it. On this morning in mid-November, though, I felt like the reflection really stole the show. Much of the rest of the lake already had a fine sheen of ice over it, and only this one corner had open water to reflect the snowy peaks of Mount Victoria above. It was a nice last glimpse of the lake, which was shortly after buried in snow and will stay that way until the end of May!

What a sunrise! Just when we thought the colours had left the sky -- the clouds had already faded from pink back to a faint blue hue -- they exploded again. It was the last sunrise of 2016, and of all the sunrises I witnessed at this spot during the year, it was definitely the best.

On this morning on the last day of 2016, it really did feel like the calm between the storms. Snow from the previous day had cleared, leaving us clear blue skies for sunrise; thirty minutes later, as the sun began to peek out from behind Mount Rundle, the snow clouds were beginning to set in again. On a larger scale, it was also the calm between the crazy year that was 2016 and the inevitable craziness that would follow in 2017.

Medicine Lake - Jasper