If you've been keeping up, you know that me, Sean, Cam, and Michelle (not the famous one you've often seen here, but another photo buddy I hadn't met yet) went for a Friday photo ramble south and east of Calgary. Here, if you missed it, or somehow found this post first.
It was fun, and the canola was lovely! Some of us were looking for the iconic deer in the canola photo, but I was ambivalent about it. My thinking is that if the wildlife poses nice, and their agent doesn't give me a hard time, and I've got the right lens on the camera, I'll take the photo.
To save you from possible disappointment, there will be no iconic Rocky Mountain photos across the foothills. We drove along some roads that offer that view, and it would have been stunning if not for the haze. Another time, perhaps.
Sometimes old storage bins are interesting. Sometimes not, and it can be hard to describe why a photographer will say "meh" to something that looks promising, and other times it's "stop the van!" You guess which these were.
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The other members of the ramble, posing, sort of, at an old BCATP airfield near Vulcan. We could wander around a bit, but all the buildings are fenced off. I know what they look like on the inside because I once worked in a building exactly like them. Like so many things, that particular building is not there anymore.
Of the Day
Driftwood (NZ)
Film
The last of the black and white flowers.
Linda and Celina
Newfoundland
Polar bears
Eagles
Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did
90 days, or so ago
Rocks sometimes fascinate me.
Flower
Landscape
It took a surprising number of tries to get the blades just right.
You are making me homesick - but, luckily, I'm heading out west to go to a wedding in a week's time (first time for a summer holiday on The Prairies in 6 years), so hopefully, I'll get to see some canola ripening in the fields.
ReplyDeleteWe lived in Melfort, Sk for 6 years and my running route took me on a highway out to the edge of town, then basically ran the perimeter until I was back home. Town on one side, farmers' fields for a far as the eye could see on the other side. One one corner, the first I came to, one field was always canola, the other flax. The striking yellow with the purple-blue flax!!! That image took my breath away the first time I saw it (and I grew up on the Prairies) and will forever be etched in my memory!!!