Alpinisme

Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon 28 – 105
f/6.3 at 1/125
ISO 200

This is another example of roadside nature photography. The area around Jasper has an abundance of wildlife and to see it all you have to do is go for a drive and I'm sure you will have an encounter or two. In the above photo you can see four bighorn sheep that were part of a larger group of no less than thirty animals that were resting and eating at the side of the road.

They drew quite the crowd of onlookers who stopped to take pictures including myself. Some of them decided to hang out in the middle of the road forcing the traffic to come to a halt. The lighting here was not very good. I needed a faster shutter speed but I didn't want to up my ISO for fear of digital noise.

As a result the images were a little lifeless and needed lots of sharpening to make them viewable. I think they make good pictures for our photo album but I am not sure they are technically strong enough to use them for much else.