Alberta Landscapes

This gallery shows landscape images taken around Alberta. It features both color and black & white images showing scenes from all seasons. The images cover territory from the Canadian Rockies out to the prairies; favorite regions include the Banff and Jasper National Parks.

Created 3 Dec 2007 | Last updated 7 Jan 2012 | 129 images

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Secrets of the Ice World 6
Secrets of the Ice World 5
Secrets of the Ice World 4
Secrets of the Ice World 3
Secrets of the Ice World 2
Secrets of the Ice World 1
Blue Dawn On the Rocks, Abraham Lake
Blue Misty For Me, Abraham Lake
Erosion 5, David Thompson Country
Erosion 4, David Thompson Country
Erosion 3, David Thompson Country
Erosion 2, David Thompson Country
Erosion 1, David Thompson Country
Fall Dawn Go Boom, Abraham Lake
Wave of Color, Icefields Parkway
Blood From A Stone, David Thompson Country
Just A Little Cut, David Thompson Country
Postcard from the Lake, Bow Lake
$A cloudy morning is a good time to visit a canyon, when the soft, diffused light shows subtle textures and colors. One of my favorite details in Allstones Canyon is a spot where several rock strata have been exposed as softer parts of the canyon wall eroded away. As the layers of blocky, fractured stone were revealed, they brought to light the petrified ripples of some prehistoric sandy beach… perhaps in its time also a good place to spend a peaceful morning.$

Ancient Rippled Stone, Allstones Canyon
Staring Into the Abyss, Athabasca Glacier
Pure Blue Waters, Athabasca Glacier
$At the end of several of kilometers of walking up from the base of the Athabasca Glacier is this sight - the icefall, its dense core gleaming a cold blue-green under a coating of crumbled surface ice and rock dust. The glacier, many tens of meters thick, pours slowly over a ridge in the mountainside underneath. As it does, it fractures and calves off pieces of itself ranging from small chunks and plates to huge seracs. The jagged formations look like the spines of some massive dinosaur, extinct as indeed the glacier itself will be likely within my lifetime...That such a volume of millennia-old ice could be gone within years is almost beyond belief, especially when its chill, immense presence has been has been experienced up close. The Columbia Icefield is described as one of two hydrological apexes of North America (the other being in Glacier National Park in Montana). Meltwater from here flows into three separate oceans (Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic). But as the ancient glacier melts, it isn't being replaced. Its disappearance will have many consequences..$

Spines of Ice, Athabasca Glacier
Foxtail Sunset, Abraham Lake
Red Glow on Blue, Abraham Lake
Blow Your Top II, Kootenay Plains