The title for this blog post may seem at bit odd. But, all the photos I’ll share with you today were taken within the town limits. I took them last week when, on a beautiful morning I decided to go for a photo walk in an undeveloped area south of where we live. It’s not only interesting that I can get into the bush so close to home, but I was sure to carry my bear spray in case of an encounter with a bear. It rarely happens and it didn’t but it could.
This first picture is a scene we can see from our back porch. On this occasion I photographed it from a different angle with the benefit of some nice light and a few clouds spotting the mountains with shadows. There are five separate peaks there, all with their own names. I can only speculate that at some point in time, competition for naming rights was pretty fierce.
Turning my camera about 120 degrees to the left, directly into the direction of the sun, I got an entirely different looking picture. The sun was behind a large cloud at that moment. Without direct sunlight on the foreground, those trees are silhouetted and the overall scene is much darker. I did take the picture in colour but I think it’s better as a black and white. Either way, these photos taken minutes apart can present the area and the light quite differently.
Along the way, I encountered Canmore Creek, close to its origin near the town’s reservoir. That’s one of the many peaks of Mount Rundle in the background. Unlike the local peaks I presented in the first photograph, Mount Rundle has but one name. It stretches from Canmore to Banff, a distance of about 20 km (12.5 miles).
Having photographed Canmore Creek extensively at its bottom end a couple of weeks earlier, I took this opportunity to seek out and capture a shot of its source (as best I can tell). This creek definitely flows out of this pond. I suspect it is fed from the town reservoir, behind the berm you see in the background. In any case, I was in the right place. I won’t dwell on the precise beginning of Canmore’s creek.
At the far end of the pond, I aligned this final shot with some Indian Paintbrush, a pretty red wildflower found almost everywhere in the Rocky Mountains. In the background I captured a corner of Mount Rundle and some dynamic clouds moving briskly in a southeasterly direction.
That’s it for Canmore for awhile. I have an interesting post coming up from a location in Banff National Park, known as Muleshoe. More about that soon.
Beautiful!!