In the course of a brief visit to the Field B.C. area, we stopped for some refreshments at the Emerald Lake Lodge. Jaime, out daughter was visiting us and we took an afternoon to explore this very scenic area. As we left the lodge, I couldn’t help but notice the brilliantly coloured flowers along the side of the building. My research shows that the flowers I was admiring are called Pale Sweetvetch or Pale Hedysarum. They exist in the wild and are also cultivated as garden plants. It is commonest in the Rocky Mountains, growing at elevations as high as the alpine zone, but it also grows in non-mountainous areas such as the Aspen Parkland Region around Edmonton.
I photographed this flower with a large aperture, f2.8 to give me a very shallow depth of field. The flower in the foreground is very sharply focused; everything else is not. The contrast between the sharpness of the flower and the soft background draws the eye to the flower. Further inspection reveals the side of the building, more flowers in the background and even a glimpse of the turquoise-coloured water of Emerald Lake on the very right side of the image.