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Emerald Lake is a natural gem in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. It is the largest and most dazzling lake in the park, with a turquoise color that comes from the glacial dust in the water. It's nestled among the majestic President Range mountains, which offer a stunning view for visitors.
Emerald Lake is not just a pretty sight. It is also a place of adventure and discovery, as you can kayak or canoe on the lake and explore its hidden corners. You can also hike on the trails that surround the lake and climb up to the higher altitudes, where you can see more of the park’s beauty and wildlife.
The area around Emerald Lake is home to many wild animals, such as bears, goats, and sheep. You can spot them in their natural habitat and admire their grace and power. You can also fish in the lake with a park license, but hunting is not allowed.
It's easy to reach by a paved road that connects to the highway. There is a lodge on the lake that offers luxury accommodation and dining options. You can also walk around the lake on a hiking trail that is wheelchair and stroller friendly.
Emerald Lake is one of the most amazing and relaxing places in Canada, and you should not miss it if you love nature and adventure. Come and see for yourself why Emerald Lake is a true wonder of the world.
The TG-5 has a great fun factor.
Here I use it with the TCON-T01 teleconverter, set the focus distance manually to minimum and look for opportunities.
Essentially this is like a pocketable 170mm close-up lens. The minimum focus distance in this configuration seems to be less than 10cm. Super fun.
Exported from RAW with no adjustments.
Photographed using a flatbed scanner.
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Sun Voyager is a sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason located in Reykjavík, Iceland. Sun Voyager is described as a dreamboat, or an ode to the Sun. The artist intended it to convey the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, progress and freedom.
A crane looms over a construction site in Hong Kong. Taken with Canon FTb with FD lens 50mm 1.8 on Lomography Lady Grey film.
The iconic view of Cornwall. The remains of a tin mine beside the coast.
This is the Wheal Coates mine, near St Agnes. It's a National Trust property and there are several other structures on the site to see. A fascinating relic of Cornwall's illustrious past.
The Parks Canada Administration Building in Banff is one of the oldest government-built structures in Banff and a recognized Federal Heritage Building.
It was completed in 1936 and built in the Tudor-Revival architectural style with rubble limestone and cedar-shingled, pitched roofs. The building is situated looking over the bridge and straight up Banff Ave towards Cascade Mountain.
It is an architectural icon in the town of Banff.
Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
This is a composite. The foreground photo was taken looking ENE and is my first attempt using 'Low Level Lighting'. I had an LED panel with me and set it up about 30 yards behind me to the right. I set it at 1% of it's available brightness. It still seemed bright in the darkness. The Milky Way photo was taken looking south. The northern 1/3 of the sky was overcast but I was still able to see Polaris so I set up my star tracker and used that for the sky photo. The light pollution on the horizon on the left is from Rock Springs which was about 50 miles away by line of sight. The light pollution on the right is from Farson which was about 30 miles away. The camera body was an Olympus OMD EM-1 mk 2. The lens was an Olympus 12mm f2. The foreground was shot at f2 iso 200 for 30 seconds. The sky was a 1 minute exposure at f2 iso 400.
“Without South Pass, the entire history of the United States’ expansion west of the Mississippi would have been different. South Pass got its name to distinguish it from the tedious and difficult northern route through the Rocky Mountains taken in 1805 and 1806 by Lewis and Clark through the Bitterroot Mountains.
As any aficionado of the Corps of Discovery knows, the Bitterroots nearly destroyed the dreams of that expedition. By the time the Corps stumbled out of the mountains, they were frozen and near death from starvation. Even today, few roads cross the Bitterroots, and the country between the great Missouri River and the mighty Columbia remains as topographically complicated as it was when Lewis and Clark crossed it.
Thus, the discovery of a direct land route across the Continental Divide with a relatively easy grade was a godsend to those who hoped to see the United States of America stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Without South Pass, it is almost certain that the Pacific Northwest would have been permanently claimed by the British and the southern part of the continent would have remained part of Mexico. South Pass, the isolated little saddle that straddles the Continental Divide in the midst of Wyoming, still the least populated state in the nation, truly provided the key to today's United States.
While the pass had been used by American Indians for millennia, the first known usage by white men occurred in 1812 when Robert Stuart and six companions crossed the mountains on their return to the East from Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, on the Oregon coast. In 1832, Capt. Benjamin Bonneville and a caravan of 110 men and 20 wagons became the first group to take wagons over the pass.
Then, on July 3, 1836, missionary Marcus Whitman crossed the pass with his wife, Narcissa, and their missionary companions, Henry Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding. Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding became the first white women to cross the Continental Divide at South Pass.
This tiny trickle of white people would become a stream in the 1840s and a river in the 1850s and 1860s. Between 1841, when the first Oregon-bound wagon train was organized, and 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed, somewhere between 350,000 and 500,000 emigrants crossed South Pass on the trails bound for Oregon, California or Utah’s valley of the Great Salt Lake. Their multiple routes converged to form a common trail corridor near Fort Kearny in what’s now central Nebraska before parting again beyond Dry Sandy, a short way west of South Pass.
As the years went by, commercial freight traffic, bound east as well as west, became steadily more common on the route across South Pass. The 1850s saw stagecoaches carrying passengers and mail offering first monthly, then weekly and finally daily service.
The Pony Express was established in the spring of 1860, and at its inception could carry a letter from St. Joseph, Missouri via South Pass to Sacramento, California in just two weeks. Construction of a transcontinental telegraph line began about the same time along the same route; by the fall of 1861 the line was finished and the Pony Express disbanded.
After 1862, much of the commercial traffic moved south to the Overland Trail, which crossed what’s now southern Wyoming by a more direct route, most of which later became the route of the Union Pacific Railroad and Interstate 80. The telegraph continued to follow the South Pass route until the late 1860s, when it was moved south to the railroad line.
For westbound travelers, the push to the South Pass crossing started at Independence Rock, where their slow, steady climb over the Continental Divide began. Many didn't even realize the backbone of the Rockies had been conquered until they reached Pacific Springs west of the pass, so gradual was the incline.
And the exact elevation of that backbone has been disputed throughout modern times. Today, it is fairly well established that the crest of South Pass is situated on the Continental Divide in Fremont County, Wyo., about 10 miles southwest of South Pass City, at 42 degrees 21 minutes north latitude and 108 degrees 53 minutes west longitude, at an elevation of 7,440 feet above sea level, or 2,267.712 meters.
Until recently, however, there was a surprising amount of confusion about the elevation. The noted historian, Dale L. Morgan, gave its elevation as 7,550 feet above sea level, a figure that has often been cited though it actually reflects the elevation of the Continental Divide to the north of the pass. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Pacific Springs 7.5 minute quadrangle gives the elevation as 7,412 feet, as do many other reference works.
During a June 2006 field survey, Colleen Sievers of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs office took a Global Positioning System reading at the Meeker and Whitman monuments, normally considered to be "the summit," that produced a reading of 7,440 feet above average mean sea level, with an error factor of plus or minus three feet.
Trail expert Paul Henderson wrote of the Meeker marker, "This monument stands twenty feet west of the actual culminating height of the Pass where the old trail crossed the divide line," but did not explain how he determined that location. According to another well-known trail expert, Gregory Franzwa, the U.S. Geological Survey engineers surveying the Continental Divide in 1946 determined that Ezra Meeker--the pioneer promoter of preserving Oregon Trail history— missed "the precise location of the divide . . . by less than fifty feet."
Today, most people view the pass from the BLM's roadside exhibit, situated just off state Route 28. From there, it is possible to follow the old trail ruts next to the exhibit parking area to the actual summit which you will know you have reached, even without a GPS unit, by the two markers you will find there.
At South Pass, visitors can still imagine themselves as fur trappers, trailblazers, missionaries or emigrants bound for Oregon, forty-niners eager for California gold or recently converted Mormons, just arrived from Scandinavia.
The West opens up for anyone who stands on South Pass.” (wyohistory.org)
Regarding the OLD OREGON TRAIL Meeker marker; “Located at the summit of South Pass, the simplicity of this marker belies its significance in preservation of the Oregon Trail. The marker was placed there in 1906 by Ezra Meeker. Earlier, in 1852, Meeker and his wife had made their way from Ohio to Oregon Territory on the trail. To him the Oregon Trail was a “symbol of the heroism, the patriotism, the vision, and the sacrifice of the pioneers who had won the West for America” and in 1906 he began an effort to mark significant spots along the Trail. Until then there were only twenty-two monuments on the 2000 mile route.
Meeker’s campaign took the form of traveling from Puget Sound to Independence Missouri (west to east) by covered wagon pulled by oxen. Beginning in March, he reached South Pass in mid-June where he erected the marker above. In his book, Ox-Team Days he described the event.
'On June 22 we were still camped at Pacific Spring. I had searched for a suitable stone for a monument to be placed on the summit of the range, and after almost despairing of finding one, had come upon exactly what we wanted. The stone lay alone on the mountain side; it is granite, I think, but mixed with quartz, and is a monument hewed by the hand of Nature.
… With the help of four men we loaded the stone, after having dragged it on the ground and over the rocks a hundred yards or so down the mountain side. We estimated its weight at a thousand pounds.
… The letters were then cut out with a cold chisel, deep enough to make a permanent inscription. The stone was so hard that it required steady work all day to cut the twenty letters and figures.' ” (TheHistoricalMarkerDatabase.org)
Regarding the Narcissa Whitman - Eliza Spalding marker; "Captain H.G. Nickesron, president of the Wyoming Oregon Trail Commission, chiseled this sign and many others like it between 1913 and 1921. He wrote in a letter, "It took me two days to cut 80 letters in the Whitman-Spalding stone." (TheHistoricalMarkerDatabase.org)
Honorable Mention, Other Landscapes, 2024 Nebraska State Fair
Steam boiler and stamp mill ruins of the Carp Lake Mine surrounded by giant white trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum) and trout lilies (Erythronium americanum). This boiler powered the Carp Lake copper mine's stamp mill and other equipment in the Upper Peninsula in the 1860s to early 1900s. It would have cost more money than it was worth to remove it so it was left to slowly rust away as nature reclaimed the area.