This isn`t so much a photography how-to as it is just a quick note to accompany the snapshots I took on our brief afternoon-trip to Lake Louise from Calgary. It’s a roughly two-hour drive, one way, and although the forecast was for warm temperatures in Banff (40km south of Louise), there was an inversion in place up at the lake, 5680′ above sea level.
I don’t know all of the mechanics behind an inversion, but the end result is that the cold air is down while the warm air is up, and there’s usually an odd cloud formation involved (see the layer of cloud sitting on the lake in the image below).
In this case the cloud seemed to have trapped the frigid air right down on the lake, making it bitterly biting and difficult to go too far, especially for our two small dogs.
Here are some of the snaps on the way up and then once we got there. We’ll be aiming to make another trip, sans mutts, in the next month or so, probably after the International Ice Carving competition in January, which needs to be photographed at night or in direct sunlight. That will be a Shooting for Success blog.
- Castle Mountain, Banff National Park
The Tao of Tim 
Thank you. Really informative article.