Cascade Ponds

This morning, accompanied by Stewart Hamilton and Bob Bear, I returned to the Cascade Ponds, a place I hadn’t visited in several years. This site is very accessible, just off the Trans Canada Highway at Banff. It’s actually a popular recreation site and doubles as a good photo location complete with views of Banff’s two most prominent peaks (Mt. Rundle and Cascade Mountain), the ponds, some bridges and lots of aspen trees.

I begin with a picture of Cascade Mountain. It looms over the area and I couldn’t easily get it all in the photo even with the 17-40 mm wide angle zoom lens I was using. So, I took three shots which I subsequently combined in this panoramic view.

I’ve put the remainder of today’s photos in a slideshow. Same instructions as always: click on the left of the photo to advance, on the right to go back.

We moved on from the Cascade Ponds to a location know as the Sawback Burn. I’ve shared photographs from that locations before, but on this trip I tried some new things. Watch for something different in my next post.