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I composed this image during a recent hike along the Bow River Trail, near Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
How peaceful and relaxed the herd appears, comprising a number of bulls and a future harem.
It's close to rutting season, though, and the fights will soon begin, accompanied by loud bugling noises. The bulls will attack each other with their hooves and antlers, and the strongest bull will win - at least this year. The vanquished bulls will disappear, lick their wounds, wait for a future chance.
Isn't nature wonderful?
Front Page and Explore #12 on Apr. 15, 2009. Wow! Two front pages in a row! Thank you again to everyone for your comments and interest in my work!
I composed this photograph during a recent trip through parts of Canada's Banff National Park. Man, it was cold! But enduring low temperatures was worth it just to view the majestic splendour of Castle Mountain, and the Bow River meandering below it.
Castle Mountain is located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base. The mountain's castellated, or castle-like, appearance is a result of erosive processes acting at different rates on the peak's alternating layers of softer shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite.
The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower. Located nearby are the remains of Silver City, a 19th-century mining settlement, and the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in which persons deemed enemy aliens and suspected enemy sympathizers were confined during World War I.
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I composed this image while hiking the Whiterock Trail in Utah's Snow Canyon State Park. Surrounded by massive dunes of various strong colours - and mostly red - the occasional white massive rock formation stands out, as pictured here.
What happens to make normally red Navajo Sandstone white? Sandstone is porous and permeable to water because there are spaces between the sand grains. Under certain circumstances, the iron pigment in red sandstone can dissolve in water and be removed, or be rendered colourless by chemical reactions in the water. Voila! White dunes. It's no surprise, then, that the hiking path toward these dunes is named "Whiterock Trail."
I composed this image during a road trip to southeast Alberta, Canada. It pictures the Red Deer River Valley as it runs through the Alberta Badlands.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith (he layer of loose rock resting on bedrock, constituting the surface of most land), and high drainage density. Ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands.
The Red Deer River headwaters start in the Rocky Mountains of Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta. The river is fed primarily by snow melt, only minimally by glacial melt, and has numerous inflowing tributaries. It is truly an Alberta born river – as soon as it crosses the Saskatchewan border it flows into the South Saskatchewan River, which becomes part of the Hudson Bay Watershed.
The river is named for the translation of a native term for the river, wâwâskêsiw sîpiy, which means "elk river" in the Cree language. "Red deer" was an alternative name for elk.
Part of the Part of the Abstract Landscapes series, a series of landscape photographs composed to remove the sense of scale.Abstract Landscapes series, a series of landscape photographs deliberately composed to remove the sense of scale.
This photograph was composed during a recent hike at Sunshine Meadows, in Canada's Banff National Park. Among other sights, it reveals the aftermath of the Verdant Creek fire in 2017, which significantly impacted a vast area, leading to closures and evacuations.
I composed this photograph during a recent road trip on the Kananaskis Trail (Hwy 40) through Alberta, Canada's Kananaskis Country (K-Country). The Highwood Pass is about half-way through the Kananaskis Trail. It is the highest paved pass in Canada, and is described as one of this country's most scenic drives. Mountain scenes such as pictured here are everywhere, each one unique in its peaks and shapes and colours and trails and valleys. The Pass is closed each year from December 1 to June 14 due to very high snowfall and to protect wildlife, including the area's vibrant Grizzly Bear population and the ever-present Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep.
About Kananaskis Country?
Kananaskis Country (K-Country) is a wilderness recreation area west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The name Kananaskis was chosen 150 years ago to name the lakes, valley, and river visited by Captain John Palliser on his expedition through the area. The name comes from the Cree 'Kin-e-a-kis' and is said to be the name of a warrior who survived an axe blow to the head.
Archaeological evidence of human use of Kananaskis Country goes back over 8000 years, and the Stoney-Nakoda, Siksika, Blood, and Kootenai First Nations all have deep connection to this land. The mountains one sees now look the same as the ones seen by these long-term residents thousands of years ago.
The jagged peaks and u-shaped valleys throughout Kananaskis Country are 12,000 year-old reminders of the last ice age, revealed as kilometre-thick, million-year old glaciers melted to mere remnants. The actual mountains were formed over the past 200 million years as tectonic plates forced layers of rock to pile, break, and fold into mountains once much taller than the post-glacier peaks we see today. The rock itself, mainly limestone, comes from layers of fossilized sea creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in an inland sea that once covered southern Alberta.The evidence is seen in ancient coral reefs, oyster beds, and shark teeth throughout Kananaskis Country.
I composed this photograph while hiking the Pine Valley Trail, in Utah's Dixie National Forest. This is a much-admired trail, with great length and a requirement for camping if one seeks to follow it to its end. Unfortunately, we found the path to be treacherously icy in spots, so we were not able to proceed as far as we would have liked. We will return, though, hopefully.
The Dixie National Forest straddles the divide between the Great Basin and the Colorado River in southern Utah. Scenery ranges from desert canyon gorges of amber, rose, and sienna to high mountain forests, plateaus, and alpine lakes.
The forest is a part of the world-renowned landscapes of Southern Utah—it provides a backdrop and serves as a gateway to surrounding National Parks and Monuments.
I composed this image while walking in an elevated natural area near St. George, Utah. I found the dramatic cloud structures attractive, but also liked the light falling on the distant mountains.
I composed this photograph during a recent trip through some of the eastern aspects of Canada's Banff National Park. It depicts some of the fencing that lines a trail that runs above and along Bow Rapids. A slip and fall down the steep cliff to the rapids would be fatal, so the fences serve an important purpose.
Happy Fence Friday, Everyone!
This image was composed during a hike in the San Jacinta and Santa Rosa Mountains National Monument in California. In the distance, one can see the Coachella Valley.
Rising abruptly from the desert floor, the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument reaches an elevation of 10,834 feet. Providing a picturesque backdrop to local communities, visitors can enjoy magnificent palm oases, snow-capped mountains, a national scenic trail, and wilderness areas. Its extensive backcountry can be accessed via trails from both the Coachella Valley and the alpine village of Idyllwild.
For interested readers, information on the geology of this region is provided below.
The Santa Rosa Mountains, along with their northerly neighbor, the San Jacinto Mountains, are mostly made of granitic rocks from the California Batholith. The Batholith is a single huge block of granites that cover some 1,500 miles (2,414km) of land from the Sierra Nevada to Baja California. It formed during the Mesozoic, some 100 million years ago as the Pacific Plate started to subduct under the North American Plate. This process created much of the igneous rock that we see in the region today, as well as the highly metamorphosed mahogany-colored sedimentary rocks near Palm Springs.
I composed this image having hiked to one of the heights bordering the meandering Whitewater River, in California's Whitewater Canyon Preserve.
The Whitewater Preserve is a Wildlands Conservancy nature preserve consisting of 2,851 acres of land in Riverside County, California. It features the perennial Whitewater River flowing through a desert canyon. The preserve is located within the San Bernardino Mountains and is part of the Sand to Snow National Monument.
She just past away, thank you all for being their , for youre thoughts, prayers and concern. I cant think right now. I will poste something later on when i can compose my self better.
The classic boardwalk shot... It looks so quiet and peaceful doesn't it? At the time of taking this photo there were about 8 or 9 photographers crammed into a small area around me! Hate to spoil the illusion. Apparently a popular location which myself with friends Les Loosemore and Ricardo Benhini just happened to stumble across... just in time to catch the last (and best) of the remaining light and the rare stillness of the water.
Scarlett, my little violinist. ^.^
(i also had a photoshop graphic kinda thing of this. . . like, you know, another photo fading into it, with a whole "musical" feel. and i thought it would be either an epic touch or an epic failure, so i played it safe. .-.)
Cyril LANCELIN
Né en 1975 à Lyon, France. Vit et travaille à Lyon, France.
Cyril Lancelin développe une œuvre hybride composée de sculptures, d’installations immersives, de dessins, d’expériences virtuelles et de vidéos qui tissent des liens entre le physique et le fictif. Éphémères ou pérennes, ses installations artistiques immersives de grande dimension ouvrent un dialogue poétique entre la perception de l’espace et le spectateur. C’est à partir d’un vocabulaire plastique basé sur la géométrie primitive qu’il relie l’architecture et le corps humain, le quotidien et le fonctionnel, la science et la nature. Sa pratique est façonnée par l’immersion et le mouvement, par la porosité des limites, par l’innovation, par la recherche d’un monde mi-data, mi-réel. Les notions de répétition et de génération paramétrique sont des thèmes récurrents dans son travail. Il anticipe notre passage dans un monde de données multipliées et partagées. L’artiste met en place un territoire connecté à travers un dialogue conceptuel entre ses pratiques et l’expérience du public.
Numériques ou réelles, ses œuvres offrent une vision essentiellement optimiste, dessinant un paysage artificiel et expérientiel.
L’œuvre pour Paris La Défense
Sur l’Esplanade de Paris La Défense, Cyril Lancelin présentera une décomposition d’un volume simple, un cube. Il est réalisé d’un assemblage régulier de sphères métalliques réfléchissantes. Le solide est évidé par des passages et des percées. C’est le dessin en trois dimensions d’une partition de plein et de vide. L’artiste invite le visiteur à une immersion dans la matière. La sculpture connecte l’infiniment petit et l’infiniment grand, l’échelle humaine et l’échelle de la ville. C’est une expérience cinétique ouverte sur l’espace public.
Cube Sphere Gold
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Courtesy Cyril Lancelin
I composed this photograph during a recent road trip to southeastern Alberta, Canada, visiting places such as the ghost towns of Wayne and Dorothy, and Horse Thief Canyon, pictured here..
This area around the Red Deer River Vqlley earned its name in early settler days, when ranching was the main industry. Thousands of horses ran here and beyond the "sand hills" (badlands) to the east. Legend has it that horses would disappear into the canyons and then return with different brands, leading to the area being called Horse Thief Canyon.
FR - Une marche HLP Calais - Lille la délivrance, composée des BB 64607 et BB 66289, est vue à son passage.
I composed this photograph while visiting Madrid in the autumn of 2023. It is of Madrid's Glass Palace, in El Retiro Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Madrid is home to some wonderful examples of cast-iron architecture, and one of the most striking is the Glass Palace. It was originally built in 1887 as a greenhouse to showcase flora and fauna as part of an exhibition on the Philippines, then a Spanish colony. Today it is owned by the Reina Sofía Museum which uses it all year round as a venue for hosting temporary exhibitions.
The Glass Palace Iwas designed in the late 19th century by architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco. He modelled it on Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace which had been erected in Hyde Park (London) back in 1851. The structure made of glass plates and cast iron sits on a brick base decorated with ceramic tiles by the renowned Spanish ceramist Daniel Zuloaga.
The palace, which was restored in 1975, is surrounded by horse chestnuts. It stands next to a small pond filled with ducks and geese, just a stone’s throw from the Velázquez Palace, which is also used by the Reina Sofía Museum for temporary exhibitions.
The Potrerillos Dam in Mendoza, Argentina. Panoramic composed of six images with an exposure time of 30 seconds each. Taken around ten at night. With a full moon that was just outside the photo.
Wer dieses Tor durchschreitet findet sich in einer magischen Welt wieder.
If you pass this gate you get in a magic world!
Composing with Photoshop CC
California State University Fullerton
Yesterday I had a great photography day. Almost every shot was a keeper and I was getting everything composed the way I wanted.
This photograph was composed after hiking from Assiniboine Lodge to 'The Niblet', in British Columbia's Assiniboine Provincial Park. Trees, mountains, an alpine lake, dramatic clouds: perfect.
The log Assiniboine Lodge was constructed in 1928 by the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company, and sits on the Great Divide, which also separates the provinces of BC and Alberta. The lodge can be accessed by a 28 km hike - boring in parts and arduous in others - or by skiing in in winter. Most visitors, however, access the Lodge by helicopter, which allows magnificent views of the wilderness terrain.
Région naturelle composée de bois, de prairies gorgées d’eau, d'étangs, de haies. Construit de la main de l’Homme depuis plus de 1000 ans, il s’est surtout structuré vers la fin du 18ème siècle avec le développement de l’élevage. Avec près de 40 000 km de haies qui sillonnent le territoire régional, il occupe encore aujourd’hui une grande partie de l’espace rural. Son rôle bénéfique en matière d’épuration et de régulation du débit des eaux, de réservoirs d’espèces de faune et de flore et de corridors écologiques ou bien encore sur l’attractivité touristique de la Bourgogne n’est plus à démontrer.
L'Aumance, vue de la Passerelle.
"Entièrement "re pensée" et parfaitement " re composée"... très joli partage Regisa..." // "Entirely re-thought and perfectly re-composed. Lovely sharing Regisa..." (Georges LISSILLOUR / www.flickr.com/photos/geolis06/)
"Magnifique reflet, quasi féerique dans ce traitement." // "Magnificent reflection, almost a fairytale treatment." (VINCENT / www.flickr.com/photos/58769600@N07/)
"Superbe prise avec ces reflets, très artistiquement travaillée." // "Great shot with those reflections, such an arty work." (SOPHIE C. / www.flickr.com/photos/26450367@N04/)
I composed this image of an abandoned historic farm building while visiting the hamlet of Rowley, Alberta (population 11), a place now characterized as an Alberta ghost town.
For those interested, the history of this town is presented below.
Rowley (like many other prairie towns) was settled around 1910 by the families of nearby farmers to efficiently collect and load farm products onto trains bound for Calgary. The soils in the Rowley region are ideal for agriculture due to their high fertility.
It wasn’t long before the town of Rowley became a hub of activity: large fields were planted, harvested, and transported through the Rowley train station. Between 1915 and 1929, the local farmers built stores, banks, and other services in town so that they didn’t have to travel long distances to get what they needed. A school, post office, and church were built and Rowley was officially connected by rail to the rest of the province.
The Great Depression experienced across the entirety of North America had no mercy on its relentless tear across western towns. Rowley was no exception to the struggles of widespread drought and market collapse.
The grain industry lost most of its value. Farmers – used to dealing with hardships – toughed the economic ruin out and did their best to provide for their families and continue building the community despite the market. Farmers who had overextended themselves upgrading their farms and livelihoods were left being unable to afford the upkeep of their farm and business in town began to close.
By the 1940s people started packing up their belongings and using that new train station to leave town. Rowley, Alberta was in decline. The municipal district office was moved out of Rowley and fires had leveled many homes and businesses.
When Alberta’s highway system was constructed in the 1950s, Rowley was bypassed entirely and left behind. These roads made it easy for young people to leave Rowley in favour of Drumheller, Calgary, or Edmonton. In the 1950s, both the hotel and curling rink burned down and were never replaced. The school and railway station both closed down in 1965.
I composed this image to depict the modern and gorgeous architecture of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Unlike Japan's cultural capital, Kyoto, historoc Tokyo was destroyed in WW 2, requiring it to be rebuilt as a modern city.
Tokyo is one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents as of 2024.
The bombing of Tokyo was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific Theatre of World War II in 1944–1945, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The raids that were conducted by the U.S. military on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, remain the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.
I composed this image while attempting to navigate the surrounds of Utah's Dixie National Forest, and losing my way. Grimaces turned to smiles, though, when I encountered this good-looking and happy soul. I just had to park my car and get out to say hello and have an 'over the fence' conversation.
Happy Fence Friday, Everyone.