Last week, Bob Bear and I traveled into Calgary to do some Urban Photography. This genre of photography, like many others is open to broad interpretation. My focus on this shoot was Calgary’s Downtown architecture. Calgary has some very attractive buildings and boasts the second greatest number of skyscrapers in Canada, a distant second behind Toronto. That…
Category: City
St. John’s
We’ve recently returned from a holiday in Newfoundland, Canada’s newest province, having joined us in 1949. Our first stop was St. John’s the provincial capital and largest city (population 112,000). Any visit to St. John’s must include some of its best known landmarks, Signal Hill, the Battery, Jellybean Row, Fort Amherst and Quidi Vidi to name…
Reykjavik
The first stop on our trip to France was Iceland, where we landed at Keflavik, the country’s major airport, 45 minutes from its capital city, Reykjavik. Reykjavik is a small city of 120,000 inhabitants and by far the largest community in Iceland, population 335,000. Reykjavik is located at latitude 64 deg N, about the same as…
Cave Creek, AZ
Cave Creek is a small town in Arizona, located in the Sonoran Desert, on the northern border of Scottsdale, 27 miles (45 km) northeast of Phoenix. It’s proud of it’s western heritage and has a very “old west” look and character. Cave Creek, established as a gold mining town and stopping point for the U.S. Cavalry…
Edinburgh Scenes
We recently returned from a holiday in Scotland. We spent eight days on a golf tour, with members of our local club from Canmore. Once that was completed, Rolande and I spent a further eight days touring the Highlands. We arrived in Edinburgh, departed from there and spent 4 days in the city in the…