Lake Louise

Today's hotel was only a five minute walk from Lake Louise, which was very helpful when you want to shoot sunrise over Lake Louise. The head lamp already paid off, because it was really dark this morning when I walked to the lake.




The locations in the Canadian Rockies are, even in September, more crowded than Vermont. Somehow everywhere where I pull over, a bus with Japanese tourists shows up. At Lake Louise they were late and missed the golden hour by 20 minutes. This group of tourists brought along their own dedicated camera man.


After breakfast and checking out, I went to Morant's curve again. The Rockies are aligned north-south, therefore when you are shooting towards the West; the morning with the sun from the East is your best time of the day for nicely lit mountains. After I pulled into the parking lot and stopped the car's engine, I could hear the low rumbling noise from the multiple diesel locomotives. As the photography guide suggested, I always have my camera ready (on the passenger seat with the lens cap off). I jumped out of my car, quickly walked across the glacier street and started shooting. Luckily the canadian freight trains are very long, which created enough time to shoot. The trains are so long that there is an extra locomotive halfway and at the end of the string of freight cars.


When you look at photo from Peyto Lake, you might think I need a bit more training in Photoshop. However this lake really had this blue color. The fine sediments from the glaciers absorb all light except the color blue which is what you see in the photo.