Dan Jurak's Alberta Landscape Photo Blog Musings on photographing the Alberta landscape.

Things are almost but not quite yet to call it late spring or early summer photography around Edmonton. Slowly but surely things are getting green. The further north you are from the equator, the later summer arrives. I take the dog for a five mile walk every morning. Part of our walk is on the [...

I don’t live in the most photographed part of Canada. From horizon to horizon the land looks pretty much the same. Flat. Uninteresting. Boring. No elegant oaks or elms. No rolling hills. No waterfalls, mountains or glaciers. It’s flat, prairie farm land. I’ve never seen that as a disadvantage. It’s

Some people swear by ‘em. I swear at ‘em. Filters have their place in photography. In landscape photography, at least how I do it, they have NO place. When I got back into shooting landscapes after an almost thirty year absence, I plunked down a few hundred dollars for a set of graduated filters, bo

It goes without saying that when we have something that we are passionate about we want to do more of it or do it better. Shooting landscapes is no different. Sooner or later all of us plateau. Our photos start looking the same. They’re bland and boring. Why? Often times it’s because we get into [..

Before I write anything else, thank you for being such a good sport about my April Fool’s blog yesterday. Until I see a way of giving photographer’s value for their money, I have no intention of offering workshops of any kind. The larger groups that I see advertised might be great as a source of [..

Over the past four years I’ve gotten many request both on this blog and even more through email asking me specifically how I shoot, process, decide when to shoot, etc. I’ve tried to explain that here but  probably not as well or as thorough as I can. I have found that seeing something in person [...

There is a light snow forecast for tomorrow afternoon but I am saying goodbye to the winter of 2011/2012. As winters go for landscape photography, it wasn’t the best around central Alberta. We had very little snow this year. It was one of the warmest winters on record and it was the warmest winter I

It’s probably a personality trait rather than something that I consciously do. I tend to get stuff done as fast as I possibly can. That applies to almost everything. You won’t catch me sitting by my camera on a tripod waiting for the perfect light to happen. I can’t stay still. It’s like I’ve got [.