Yesterday, I went out with a first time visitor to the Rockies, our nephew, Daniel Desjardins from Saint John, New Brunswick. We did the one-day, overview tour, covering a variety of some of our better tourist attractions. We both took many photographs and today I want to share a few that I was quite pleased about….
Category: Water
Sarrail Creek Falls
One of my recent trips to K-Country took me to the Upper Kananaskis Lake where I photographed this small, but beautiful waterfall, where Sarrail Creek emerges from the forest. I took a number of shots but found this one to be the most appealing, at least to my eye. It features the “streamed” look, designed to…
Headwall Lakes, Kananaskis
The Headwall Lakes are located about 40 km south of Canmore, on the Spray Lakes Road. They lie in a valley between two mountains, Mt. Chester and Mt. James Walker at an elevation of ~2,300 metres (7,545 ft.) The upper lake spills into the lower lake, which in turn drains via Headwall Creek into Smith-Dorrien Creek then south…
Elbow Lake
Elbow Lake is located in the Elbow Pass north of the Highwood Pass in Kananaskis Country, Alberta. Elbow Lake lies at an elevation of 2,120 m (~7,000 ft) and is the headwater of the Elbow River. In my last post, on Bow Lake I reported that I was at the headwater of the Bow River,…
Bow Lake
I went on a photo excursion this morning in Banff National Park. My destination for today was Bow Lake, about 35 km (22 miles) up the Icefields Parkway in the direction of Jasper. I arrived and began shooting around 6:30 am. This is after sunrise but the light is very good. The skies were partially cloudy,…