Photographer Timelapses Winter Storm Moving Through the Canadian Rockies

Photography Tips  •  Time-lapse Photography

When Richard Gottardo set out to photograph fog in the Rocky Mountains via Jasper National Park, he expected something glorious, but the heavy, swirling winter scene that he discovered during his two day 1000km trip through the Rockies was, in his words, a truly “awesome sight”—one that he captured in a gorgeous timelapse video:

The fog was a product of a large arctic storm blowing across southern Alberta. Most people avoid the high mountain areas during winter storms, but Gottardo charged in and shot more than 3,300 photographs in a span of over 18 hours to create the timelapse.

Gottardo is a Canadian wedding and “storm chaser/landscape” photographer whose photographs have been published and displayed all over Canada, the Americas, and the UK.