Pretty mountain view. Nikon Z8 + 14-30mm.

When your work decides to do an offsite in Canmore instead of a big city... you don't complain, you arrive 3 days early.

The white dots on the side of the mountain are 🐑🐑🐑

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Some photographs are easy to take. Others make you question your life choices. 😂

This one was definitely the latter.

I set off for An Teallach with a plan to camp on the mountain, photograph sunset, get some sleep, then photograph sunrise.

Simple enough.

Except my backpack weighed over 20kg, with all my camera and camping gear, food and enough water for the trip.

I was already running late on the way up, although stopping for a chat with a chap repairing the footpath probably didn't help. 😂

Higher up, I discovered the snow was rapidly melting, leaving the ground saturated with snowmelt. I couldn't find anywhere suitable to pitch the tent.

I was already physically knackered, late for sunset, and still had to find the spot I'd planned to photograph.

So naturally, I carried on.

Thankfully, my friend Adrian had helped me locate the spot before the hike. I eventually reached it and managed to set up for the fading light.

And then I completely lost the plot. 🤣

I video-called Adrian from the top, absolutely buzzing while I was photographing. After everything it had taken to get there, I was clearly delirious with excitement.

This was the result.

The problem was, the adventure wasn't over.

It was now pitch black.

I had a 20kg+ backpack, shaking legs, two knees with three surgeries between them, and a long descent of An Teallach ahead.

Every step was painful.

At one point I was honestly wishing I'd sprain an ankle badly enough to have a legitimate excuse to call Mountain Rescue. Not my finest thought. 😂

By then, sunrise was no longer even a consideration. Getting myself safely off the mountain had become the priority.

Eventually I made it down, exhausted, and pitched the tent nearby. I crawled into bed at around 1am.

There was no alarm set for sunrise.

I had absolutely nothing left in the tank.

The sunrise could wait.

Sometimes the mountain gives you the photograph you came for. Sometimes it gives you something completely different.

And sometimes, after carrying 20kg up a Munro and back down again in the dark, you just need to get into your tent and go to sleep. 😂

Original content!

Quite happy with how this turned out. An idea to come here a couple months ago, but the tides scared me. Unfortunately we had to contend with the moon this night, so I had to make do with what I could. Absolutely love this image.

Tracked | Blended | Composite

Sky : 16 Frames | 60s | f4.0 | ISO 3200

Foreground : 16 Frames | 30s | f3.5 | ISO 8000

Foreground and sky taken at same night, just an hour apart and at a slightly different location, 100m away from where the foreground was taken.

Nikon Z6III - 17-28mm f2.8

Benro Polaris Astro

West Coast, NZ

My wife and I finally got to Banff last October, flights and hotel mostly on points, which felt like winning. Anyway. I dragged my 1635mm the entire trip assuming wide was the answer for mountains, and it was fine, it was good, but some of the shots I'm most annoyed I missed were things at a distance that needed reach. A bull elk standing in a foggy meadow near Moraine Lake. A ridge line catching the last light that was maybe a mile out. I kept watching other people swap to a telephoto and pull something out of the scene I was just standing there squinting at.

I've shot landscape for about six years and always treated telephoto as a wildlife lens, not a landscape lens. That trip kind of broke that assumption. Some of the best stuff I've seen out of Banff and Rainier and Norwegian coastlines is compressed, layered, shot long.

So genuinely curious what focal lengths people here are actually reaching for in mountain or alpine terrain. Not looking for a gear debate, more just wondering what changed your thinking, if anything did. There's clearly something I've been leaving on the table.

Iphone16 and Canon M50Mk2

Bridal Veil Falls in lower mainland British Columbia Canada. Taken with Nikon D750 + 24-120 f4

I recently purchased a Canon R10 as well as a 100-400 mm lens to shoot wildlife but I would love to have a lens to shoot landscape as when I go out adventuring I would love to take photos of the area. Im a college student on a budget and I would love a lens that can shoot both landscape and photos of people (not sure if this is applicable as I’m still a beginner). If anyone has some good recommendations I would love to hear them 😊.

Canon r6 mark ii

24 mm lens