Could We Pull off the Highway About Here?

            That's the story behind this image and the view I wanted to capture. I'd left Austin earlier that morning where temperatures were...hot! So after a few plane flights on the way up to Calgary, I was heading west on the Trans-Canada Hwy 1 for a trip to stay in the Banff area in Alberta. I asked my friend to pull off the highway at this point because of the view I saw here. To my immediate front was a grassy meadow with different colors wildflowers of whites, purples and greens. Just beyond was a view across a countryside with rolling hillsides and groves of trees. Then far off in the distance were the majestic and beautiful peaks of the Canadian Rockies! That's what I wanted to capture with this image as I felt a cool breeze of early autumn winds coming across the countryside, cooling down my body and blowing my hair all about...but I was so loving it!

The only thing I changed later with post-production was to clone out an entrance ramp road just beyond the meadow with Photoshop. While some might feel this takes away from the image, for me it adds to the image by removing it. As Ansel Adams said: this is not what you see, but what I want you to see.

Taken in: Canada / Alberta / Cheneka (show map)

Taken on: September 7, 2016

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Nikon D800E

Day 1

Color Efex Pro

Capture NX2 Edited

Looking NW

Blue Skies with Clouds

Canadian Rockies

Evergreens

Hillside

Hillside of Trees

Nature

Outdoors

Landscape

Rolling Hillsides

Roadside Pulloff

Trees

Trans-Canada Highway

Trans-Canada Highway 1

Trans-Canada Hwy 1

Trans-Canada Hwy 1 Countryside

Grassy Area

Grassy Field

Grassy Meadow

Field of Wildflowers

Wildflowers

Central Front Ranges

East Banff Ranges

Fairholme Range

Ghost River Area

Rocky Mountains

Mountains

Mountains in Distance

Mountains off in Distance

Outside

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Camera: Nikon D800E, f/5.6, 1/640 sec, 98mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800E
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	98mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 M
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