Canada Holiday

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by venus

Hi Al, great images, Canada looks amazing. My daughter may be going there next year to study in Victoria, I'm afraid of the bears though

Well, you're not the only one there! Fear is a healthy survival mechanism. It helps us deal with dangers especially those that we don't really understand... Look at me - I was afraid of heights, then one day decided to face my fear and go abseiling. I learned a lot about it, got into vertical rescue, became a rescue instructor and ended up going overseas to judge high angle rescue competitions. My fear has turned to a very healthy respect...

While in Revelstoke, there was a very interesting one page notice about what to do if you encounter a bear - written by someone from the local Bear Care organisation. It was a great read. I found it fascinating. No doubt the person who wrote it knew their bears! It increased my knowledge of bears many fold just reading that! They seem to have their act together over there with bear warnings, etc as well.

Al.

[citivolus (Ric)]

Originally Posted by venus

I'm afraid of the bears though

Bear will generally leave you alone. It is the cougars you should be afraid of

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by citivolus

Bear will generally leave you alone. It is the cougars you should be afraid of

Nah! I'm too old...



Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

Back from a few days processing wedding photos...

Here are a few from around the Powell River area.

1. An old time portable sawmill skid. Panorama of 4 images from the forestry museum which is a nice flat walk through the bush on the shore with exhibits scattered along the way - and free! There's some real timber in this!

2. A panorama of 3 images of the Powell River Mill Hulks. These are old world war I ships (concrete hulls) that are moored in a large boom to protect the area where they haul the logs from the ocean (or at least used to. We didn't see them doing this but all the gear is there to do it. We did see them bringing in barges of wood chip).

3. A tug (used to pull the barges of wood chips) with the mountains of Vancouver Island in the background.

4. Another of the hulks by itself.

Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

Still processing...

Some more from the Banff area.

Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

More from Banff.

Al.

[iceman (Mike)]

Fantastic images, Al! Beautiful sceneries and panoramas!

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Fantastic images, Al! Beautiful sceneries and panoramas!

Thanks Mike. I find I'm having to do a fair bit of processing though. Even though a lot of the time was overcast, the combination of snow and sucker holes means I'm struggling with dynamic range, hence I'm playing with shadows and highlights a bit... I guess I'm not used to big views in the snow!

Oh well its all good lessons to learn.

Al.

[gary]

Hi Al,

Some really nice shots that I very much enjoyed. Looks like a wonderful trip.
Thanks for posting.

Best Regards

Gary

[sheeny (Al)]

No surprizes... it's cloudy here... so I'm still processing Canada shots.

These are some crops from the shots I got of the bears on Grouse Mountain. Basically just cropped to get rid of the wire (fence) in the foreground...

Al.

[sheeny (Al)]

1. A pano from the Sulphur Mountain gondola car park.
2. A wide panorama over Banff from the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Survey Station.
3. A frozen waterfall on Cascade Mountain.
4. Lake Minniwanka from Sulphur Mountain.
5. Lake Minniwanka (from Lake Minniwanka).
6. Reflections in Cascade Ponds.
7. One of the footbridges at Cascade Ponds.

Al.