Earlier this week, I traveled down the Smith-Dorrien Spray Trail, accompanied by my friend and fellow photographer, Stewart Hamilton. This trail is a good dirt road that leads south from Canmore to Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, where it connects to Highway 40. You can identify the Smith-Dorrien Spray Trail on the following map as Route 742. It’s…
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Autumn Scenes, British Columbia
I’ve had a good photography run recently, visiting three provinces in the past 2 months and of course, taking some pictures near home. The subjects of my latest blogs have featured photographs from Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Alberta and now, British Columbia. Last week, we traveled to Squamish B.C. for Thanksgiving with our son, Jon and his…
Autumn In the Rockies
Rolande and I went for one of our favourite drives yesterday, Highway 1A in Banff National Park. We enjoyed the brilliant colour of the autumn leaves and I got a few photographs to show for it. Let’s begin with this one, our stop at Hillsdale Meadows, a scenic location just west of the Town of…
Grasslands National Park
Grasslands National Park is located in southwest Saskatchewan, just north of the Montana border. I ventured there last week, accompanied by friend and photographer, Bob Bear. It’s a 7-hour drive from Canmore, so we spent a couple of days there, blessed by magnificent autumn weather. The nearest community is Val Marie, SK, a village of 140…
Last Word(s) on Newfoundland
My final post on Newfoundland. I’ve chosen today’s pictures from our travels on the west coast of the Northern Peninsula, all the way to St. Anthony. My first picture shows a typical stack of lobster pots, seen at the village of St. Pauls. We saw similar stores of pots in every village we visited along the…