We’ve recently played a few rounds of golf at a nearby golf course, The Boulders. Today’s photographs are intended to share a few scenes from this very unusual landscape, literally strewn with boulders. The site of today’s pictures is the South Course at the Boulders, a course built among the many boulders that presumably fell…
Category: Golf
Kananaskis is Back!
Along with several other members of the Stewart Creek Golf and Country Club, Rolande and I played golf this week at the recently re-opened Kananaskis Country Golf Club. It’s two courses, Mount Kidd and Mount Lorette were severely damaged by the floods that struck the area in June 2013. Their restoration has taken a long…
Panorama Photography
I’ve been working on some photographic techniques that I haven’t used for some time. One of the techniques I wanted to refresh is panoramic photography. I brought my panorama gear with me from home with this in mind. This contraption, the Really Right Stuff Pano Elements Package mounts on the tripod head and serves two purposes. It keeps the…
Golf in Scotland
As I mentioned in a previous post, we recently returned from a holiday in Scotland. A big part of that trip was golf, 7 rounds scheduled in 8 days. We were fortunate to play some excellent courses, including some of the world’s most renowned. We played on three of the perennial British Open courses, the…
“A Good Walk Spoiled”
The title for today’s post is a quote attributed to Mark Twain. It refers to golf and on some days I heartily concur. I played yesterday and although my play was “so-so”, it was anything but a walk spoiled. I chose to bring along a camera, intending to capture the beautiful colour of the purple…