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| The gate 7 September 2012 |
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
from the grass
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| From the grass 22 July 2012 |
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Emerald Lake
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| Emerald Lake Yoho National Park. AB. Canada. 2009 |
Like Peyto Lake, Emerald Lake is a glacier fed lake, the stunning colours in the water are due to glacial sediment which reflects the light. It's quite amazing how the surface is like a mirror. The mountains in the background just add to the spectacular scenery.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Banff River
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| Banff River Banff, AB, Canada. 2009 |
Banff River. The water in this river was amazing. Kayakers and rafters seemed to have an amazing time on this river; we just didn't get time.
Monday, 30 January 2012
Othello Tunnels
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| Othello Tunnels path Coquihalla Canyon, AB, Canada, 2009 |
Othello Tunnels are converted train tunnels running through mountains and winding along the pristine river. The tunnels were a part of a line connecting Kootenay with the British Columbian coast. The line was built across three mountain ranges. The Coquihalla Gorge river was at the bottom of 300 feet of solid granite. The engineer, Andrew McCullough, a straight line of tunnels crossing this gorge and named stations after Shakspearean characters as he was an avid reader of Shakespearean literature.
Fading Bloom
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| Fading Bloom Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009 |
Spring was a nice time to live in Canada. Flowers blooming, long sunny days and relativelty clear weather. I started to take more interest in photography around this time, and started to notice the little things in life.
Photography makes you stop and appreciate, and to me it makes you see things from a different perspective.
Kickinghorse River
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| Kickinghorse River Yoho National Park, AB, Canada, 2009 |
This is the mighty Kickinghorse River in Yoho National Park (I think). It's clarity and colour is amazing, the blue is entirely natural, created from suspended particles from glacial flow. This region is surrounded by enormous peaks, roads cutting through them to form a path for tourists and Canadians alike.
Clarity
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| Clarity Johnson Canyon, Banff, AB, Canada, 2009 |
Johnson Canyon was one spectacular place. It was rainforesty, there was a stream running the entire length of the wooden boardwalk. The boardwalk was at times 20m above the ground level, bolted precariously to the edge of a cliff, sometimes under a shelf so you had to duck as you passed. It is somewhere that could not be properly explored in the time we spent there, I would say it would be an all day job, at the least.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Edith Cavill Stream
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| Edith Cavill Stream Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, 2009 |
The road back from Mount Edith Cavill & Angel Glacier, along the Athabasca river, was peppered with wildflowers. When we found an area to pull over safely I decamped to grab some shots of them and noticed this stream. The water was crystal clear and the rocks had amazing colour.
Mt Edith Cavill was named after Edith Cavill, an English nurse who was captured and executed by the Nazis for assisting allied soldiers in their escape from occupied Belgium. There was a placard with information and details of her heroics. While we were standing, awestruck, there was a massive rumble from the mountain, we for a second thought we were going to witness an avalanche on Angel Glacier. Alas we did not.
Peyto Lake
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| Peyto Lake Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2009 |
Peyto Lake is a glacial fed lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Access to the lake is from the Icefield Parkway which is a nature reserve dotted with glaciers, glacial lakes, massive mountains and wildlife. One of my favourite places, and I'm glad I got to share this sight with my sister.
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