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This was a charity event with people paddling canoes around Derwent Water in the English Lake District National Park. The canoes were strapped together as a pair.
The small rounded peak on the centre hill is Causey Pike (637 metres 2090 feet)
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Haida artist Bill Reid’s Black Eagle canoe is a symbol of knowledge, community and cultural regeneration, so its installation at SFU’s Burnaby campus is a fitting tribute to the University’s 50th Anniversary.
The fiberglass canoe is a replica of famed dugout canoe Loo Taas, which Reid and other First Nations artists carved from a 750-year-old cedar tree for Expo ’86. It was the first such canoe to be carved on the Northwest Coast in more than 100 years. The Black Eagle is one of four replica canoes, two of them commissioned for the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, where they were on display and also available for tourists wishing to paddle in the Ottawa River. The Black Eagle was later purchased by Charles and Gail Pancerzewski and donated to the Bill Reid Foundation, which loaned it to the VanDusen Botanical Garden.
To mark SFU’s 50th Anniversary, the Black Eagle was moved to the Burnaby campus and officially installed outdoors under the northeast corner of the Academic Quadrangle at a witnessing ceremony on Oct. 21. 2015. More than 100 community members from both the University and First Nations gathered for the ceremony.
Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
It’s big, well structured, symmetrical, solid, run by family members and perfectly maintained...the canoe I’m referring to!
Canoes on the wild, pristine Myakka River where manatees roam. The sky and sunlight was perfect to create the cloud reflections. It was only after I downloaded the shot did I notice that it's also a composition in three colors -- red, white/grey, blue. Nice coincidence. Snook Haven, Florida. GOLD Medalist - DTC FREQUENT VOTER REWARD: Admin's Choice Contest - 2009.
I was able to get away to the Eastern Sierra for four days in October. The fall color was in full swing and the weather was perfect. It was a bit chilly in my tent (26°); but I survived with my two sleeping bags and a huge fluffy down blanket. It was a bit alarming when I switched my lantern on and my tent was all sparkly. Yep. Frost!
One of our excursions took us to the Virginia Lakes area. I really think that this red canoe was placed her specifically for photographers!
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I was so fortunate to witness the awe-inspiring spectacle of golden hour illuminating the breathtaking Valley of the Ten Peaks and the charming canoe rentals at Moraine Lake. The ethereal light gracefully painted the rugged peaks and caressed the tranquil waters, creating a scene of pure enchantment.
Wooden canoe at sunset on Esther Lake. Minnesota.
I wrote about how I made this image here.
Made it to #1 on Explore.
My old canoe is getting some use again.
Leica Standard, Canon 50mm f/3.5 lens and Rollei Infrared 400 film, no filter.
Morgan County, Georgia
I can quite confidently say that I have never laid my eyes on a scene as picturesque and photogenic as Emerald Lake in the Yoho National Park, in Alberta Canada!
Could you imagine waking up in a place this gorgeous? I know I could! I was absolutely thrilled that I was to be spending two nights at this lodge... in a five-star room with an amazing view of the lake! I was in Landscape Photographer's Heaven!!
I arrived at the lodge well after dark (11pm)... so I didn't really have a chance to scout around for compositions to shoot at sunrise the next morning. However, these canoes caught my eyes while I was lugging my luggage across the bridge in the dim light of darkness... so I made a mental note to check them out as soon as the dawn arrived the next morning.
I was perched on the edge of the wooden deck with my camera on it's tripod (attached to my new panoramic tripod head) well before dawn... I grabbed some shots before the other guys (and gals) in the group arrived... and then I moved on looking to see if I could find any other promising locations. Then, when the light was turning really nice shortly after sunrise... I moved my camera back to my sweet spot on the boathouse deck... and shot this seven (portrait) image panorama. I knew that I'd timed the moment just right as soon as I looked at the images on the camera's LCD... oh my... what a great way to start the day!!
I managed to get loads of other great shots at Emerald Lake that day... but this will probably turn out to be my favourite.
Please press the "L" key to view this large... you won't regret it. :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 18mm, aperture of f16, with a 1/13th second exposure.
I was hoping to do 110/100 paddles this morning, but changed my mind.
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Not quite 110/100 Paddles, 2016.
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Tea Gardens,a popular retreat and retirement area just north of Newcastle NSW in Port Stephens,a magnificent body of water.General Macarthur actually had his Australian headquarters at nelson bay,port Stephens,during the darker days of WW2.Tea Gardens is across the water from Nelson bay and is at the headwaters of the pristine unspoilt Myall lakes.The weather gods were not kind to me on my visit to Tea Gardens this day,and all of the canoes were laid up because of the dismal day that was,nevertheless I hope I captured a little colour for you and you are maybe a bit more learned on this beautiful area.
Monday was a bank holiday and it was a lovely day for a walk to the Canoe Lake. We didn't take Harbie with us - if we had we wouldn't have been able to get so close to the swans (and there were loads of dogs being walked there, which we'd predicted!!) I wish I could balance that well on one leg!
This is the old canoe that I refinished this summer. New gunwales and paint. Replaced the bulkheads. Looks much better.
*Canoë:
French word for canoe which is a long, narrow watercraft with sharp ends originally used by most peoples. The canoe varies in material according to locality and in design according to the use made of it . On the northern fringe of the American forest where smaller tree trunks were found and rapid rivers and many portages favored a lighter craft, the bark canoe dominated, reaching its highest development in the birchbark canoe. At portages this light canoe could be lifted on one's shoulders and easily transported. The canoe played an important part in early American history.
The Mysterious Canoë, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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"I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so."
-Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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From an old slide picture taken circa 1984.
"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature."
Pierre Trudeau