Atmospheric Landscapes
When you live in the Canadian Rockies, where autumn is best measured in days not weeks, chasing fall colors can be a challenge.
Driving through Canmore with an eager group of photographers last year on day one of a seven-day autumn workshop, I noticed the green poplar leaves were beginning to turn bright yellow. A week later, we made our way back to the airport, passing through Canmore once again. By then, most of the poplar leaves had already fallen. Those seven days marked the beginning, peak and conclusion to our fall colors.
What makes the Canadian Rockies autumn spectacular, though, is the atmospheric drama the suddenly cooling air creates when moving across the still-warm earth.
Autumn marks the shift from the longer days of summer to the longer nights of winter. Typically, when we think
