While I was on the trip-of-a-lifetime in the Canadian Rockies one month ago, I took well over 2,400 photos. Many were duplicates using different settings of my camera and from different angles and directions.

I teamed up with two professionals as guides to help me learn how and get the most out of the features of my Canon 80D DSLR.

Since I returned home, between volunteering gigs and routine stuff around the house and community (and rides on my Harley), I culled, cropped, and edited my photos.

Editing these photos took …

… about 100 hours. I admit, some of that time was spent on learning how to use photo post-processing software from Adobe (Lightroom and Photoshop) which bring my photos from good to great and beyond.

However, those software systems are about as daunting as learning to use the features of my camera. So much so, I signed up for an adult learning class to learn under the direction of an experienced pro.

Since no one wants to see the same image again and again or from different angles or under different lighting conditions, my photos to display went from >2,400 to 174… now available on my website gallery.

Note — my website gallery is intentionally “low res” (low resolution.) The image quality is set intentionally low to discourage photo theft that is so rampant on the internet. I also use the Coppermine photo gallery software to display my photos because it is not scanned by search bots that crawl the web for indexing to produce search results.

So “tah-dah”… here are photos from my trip to give you a glimpse of my adventure. They are divided into 9 smaller sub-galleries as described in the title. I also took time to caption each image so you can know where the photo was taken and what it was.

BHD’s Photo Gallery of the Canadian Rockies. <== this is a hotlink!

Life is short: relive the experience with me.