I bought flowers for my daughter’s 21st birthday a few weeks ago, and after they died, replacement flowers. They were a much needed bit of colour and life at home while another Calgary winter dragged on and on endlessly. I needed the reminder that spring would come and life would, in fact, get better.
I had just walked into work the morning of December 4th when I noticed the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise outside the office window. The office is on the 34th floor of Bow Valley Square in Calgary, so it has a great view of downtown and to the south. It’s a view that I love and have photographed a number of times, although never with a result quite like this. I stood at the window and captured this shot with my iPhone as the sun came up over the city, casting a reddish hue over everything. You can see the reflection of the fluorescent office lights behind me in the window and I love the atmosphere that the exhaust from the towers downtown adds to the photo. The result looks a little bit eerie and apocalyptic.
A new normal 