Northern Rockies Road Trip

Last August, I took an impromptu road trip to northern British Columbia when my original vacation plans fell through last minute. Since I had already booked a week off, and it was not quite enough time to go all the way to the national parks down South, I figured it would be a good opportunity to revisit an area that I had neglected in the post-pandemic years.

While the Alaska Highway is a popular destination, it’s nowhere near as busy as, say, the Icefields Parkway. It’s simply too far from where most people live, or from major airports. If you’re able and willing to get away from big population centres and world-famous attractions, though, you will be rewarded with epic landscapes and countless wildlife sightings, at a latitude where summer days extend well into the night and where the angle of the sun makes for a softer light with a golden quality to it.

Although it was originally just meant as a consolation prize, it turned out to be an incredibly rewarding little trip. In recent years, I’d been feeling like something was missing, like the quality of my photos had been improving, but somehow, some of my older shots, while objectively “worse”, spoke to me more. This trip, however, seems to have lit that lost spark again and produced some bangers! I have also thought of trying a different approach by posting series of photos to tell a story rather than going for hit singles. In the slideshow below, I have included some of my personal favourite, along with some that are not necessarily as good on their own, but add to the story.