Last week, Rolande and I took a trip along the Icefields Parkway, a scenic route from Lake Louise to Jasper, Alberta. It’s a mountain road, best known for the Columbia Icefields and the glaciers that flow from it, many visible from the highway. The Columbia Icefield is the largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains. It’s located…
Learning New Techniques
I’ve been studying some new techniques to sharpen my skills at developing images. I’m following a program that focuses on Photoshop, now celebrating its 30th anniversary. Photoshop has evolved considerably over that period and progressed in step with digital camera technology. Photoshop has become a very large and complex program and despite using it for…
David Thompson Country
After completing my recent visit to Bow Lake, I ventured further north along the Icefields Parkway to an area of Alberta known as David Thompson Country. It’s located in Clearwater County, adjacent to Banff National Park. I reached it via Highway 11 from Saskatchewan River Crossing, 1/2 hour north of Bow Lake. The area is…
Bow Lake
I recently went on a photo excursion to an old favourite location along the Icefields Parkway, Bow Lake. I went with two friends and fellow photographers, Bob Bear and Hugh Williamson. We had been alerted that the lake was still frozen over and to our pleasant surprise, the ice was now melting, breaking up and…
W.W. Midgely Bridge
Midgely Bridge is an arch bridge located on US89A just north of Sedona, Arizona. The bridge spans Wilson Canyon where it enters Oak Creek Canyon. Constructed in 1939, it’s named for local rancher W.W. Midgley, in honour of his long support of such projects. Midgley Bridge was the final bridge constructed in a series of bridges…