Following our stop at Cascade Ponds yesterday, we moved on to two other locations where we could experiment with some abstract images. The areas chosen, Sawback Burn and Muleshoe in Banff NP offer some good scenes for what we had in mind. Sawback Burn is the site of a prescribed burn several years ago. It…
Cascade Ponds
This morning, accompanied by Stewart Hamilton and Bob Bear, I returned to the Cascade Ponds, a place I hadn’t visited in several years. This site is very accessible, just off the Trans Canada Highway at Banff. It’s actually a popular recreation site and doubles as a good photo location complete with views of Banff’s two…
Lillian Lake
Earlier this week, I participated in a hike to Lillian Lake, located in Kananaskis Country. It is accessed via the Galatea Creek Trail, just south of Mount Kidd. We were graced with a glorious day to enjoy this beautiful trail which ascends about 6.5 km to the lake. As suggested by its name, the trail…
Kananaskis Safari
Earlier this week, I accompanied my friend and accomplished wildlife photographer, Barry Stewart on an evening photographic safari. We focused our attention on the lower end of Kananaskis Country, the Highwood Pass in particular in search of grizzly bears. We were successful and managed to find and photograph a mother and her cub. We got…
Scenes from Istanbul
The last stop for our ship was Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and one of the world’s great cities. It has a population of 13.5 million and is unique in the world as the only city to span two continents, Europe and Asia. The two continents are separated by the Bosporus, a strategic channel connecting the…