We stopped by the new Interpretive Centre at the Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, when we passing through Cluny last July.
It’s a beautiful facility, and the exhibits offer a fascinating look into the First Nations history of southern Alberta. It’s well worth a visit if you live in Calgary, or are passing by the town of Cluny on the Trans-Canada highway.
For more information, check out their web site: http://www.blackfootcrossing.ca/
I’ve recently started scanning some of the 35mm transparencies I shot on a trekking holiday in Nepal back in 1991. This is a photo of Ama Dablam emerging from the clouds; this magnificent peak is a prominent landmark along the trail from Namche Bazaar to the Tengboche Monastery in the Everest region of Nepal.
I got some good news yesterday… I learned that one of my favourite images of the Majorville Medicine Wheel will be featured in the December issue of Alberta Views magazine.
This image was captured on film, with a Pentax 645N medium-format camera and a 45mm f2.8 lens.
Be sure to check out the rest of my Medicine Wheel images on my web gallery.
It’s getting close to that time of year, when the mule deer from the surrounding area congregate in and around the Waterton townsite during the autumn rut…
More wildlife images can be found on my web site.
A rock outcrop near the eastern end of Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island is home to what is considered one of the finest panels of prehistoric petroglyphs in British Columbia. Little is known about this petroglyph, called K’ak’awin by the local indigenous peoples.
More petroglyph images can be seen in my web gallery.
My first in what I hope to be a regular monthly print offering is this image of an abandoned car in front of the derelict garage in Queenstown, Alberta. It was captured on infrared black & white film with an old Mamiya 645 medium-format camera.
A limited-edition, 14 x 20 inch canvas print of this image can be ordered from my Fine Art Print Gallery, which you can visit by clicking here.
The print run will be limited to no more than 30 images; each print will be numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by yours truly. And no, the watermark you see on the web images will not appear on your print.
We discovered this Sundance ceremonial site in the Kootenay Plains area, while hiking on the trail to Landslide Lake, along the edge of a recent controlled-burn forest fire.
The Kootenay (also spelled “Kootenai” or “Kutenai”) Plains area west of Nordegg, Alberta has long been important to aboriginal people, and several sundance lodges are located on the plains. The area was visited by the explorer David Thompson in the early 1800’s.
Click here to see more images from David Thompson Country.
Summer and gardening are in full swing, and with the hot weather we’ve had recently, the gardens have needed watering. That prompted me to pull this image out of the archives…
This was shot back in the days of film, with Nikon F801s and a 75-300mm Nikkor zoom. It was inspired by Bryan Petersen’s books, “Understanding Exposure” and “Learning to See Creatively”.
I was browsing through some images I shot at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta a few years ago, and I decided to see how some of them would look converted to black & white. Photoshop CS4 has a series of filters for monochrome conversion, used much like optical filters were used back in the days of shooting black & white film. I think the results look pretty good…
Shot with a Nikon D2X and AF-S Nikkor 12-24mm f4G DX lens.
Sometimes you just need to stop and smell the flowers along the way…
The same might also be good advice for the “lens police” Wildlife Conservation officers that patrol Kananaskis County, harassing anyone they see taking photos with telephoto lens. Apparently some of them haven’t taken the trouble to familiarize themselves with the official government policy on photography in the province’s parks.
