At times when I’m not as active taking pictures, I get the opportunity to look back at the archives in search of good candidates for a blog posting. Today I found a favourite from the autumn of 2009, a picture of Mount Rundle viewed across the Vermilion Lakes near Banff. This picture has a number…
Chilean Wine Country
Our last stop, a relaxing 5 days in the wine country south of Santiago. Our first destination was the beautiful Apalta vineyard in the Colchagua Valley, about 2-1/2 hours from Santiago. We stayed at the Lapostolle Winery, where we enjoyed a relaxing couple of days, decompressing after a vigourous travel schedule the previous week. We visited…
Winter in Banff
It got a little warmer yesterday, so I went out to take a few pictures. It is still very wintery here and the fresh snow is very beautiful. Hard to resist! I wanted to get some winter pictures of the Banff Springs Hotel, the castle in the mountains. I started at a lookout on the…
Santiago
We wrapped up our recent holiday in South America with a week in Chile. Our first stop was the capital city, Santiago, a very modern city of about 4.5 million people. Following are a few favourite scenes from our short stay in Santiago. This first picture was taken in a district called “Paris and London”….
Canmore Creek
Today I went for a short hike with friend and photo scout par excellence, Dave Foreman. We went to Quarry Lake on the south side of Canmore, then followed a trail that ultimately brought us back to Canmore Creek which drains down through the town and into the Bow River. The creek is still running,…