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Purple-Orange color enhanced closeup of dried rocks at the Natural Bridge across the Kicking Horse River.

Kicking Horse NB Purple Orange

Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase Kicking Horse Natural Bridge We were on our way back from Emerald lake when we stopped at the natural bridge on the Kicking Horse River. The turnoff to Emerald Lake is about a mile southwest of the Yoho National Park Visitor Center on the Trans-Canada Highway. After that, it’s about another mile and a half to […]

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Image of the Calgary Tower bathed in blue light

Calgary Tower Blues

What could be better than standing on the sidewalk outside the Calgary Tower on an early March evening? Anything. Literally anything. That could be too harsh. The temperature was a balmy freezing that night. When I was last in Calgary, this past January, the low was -26°C/-15°F. Needless to say, I wasn’t out on the streets that night. The Calgary Tower opened to the public on June 30, 1968. At that time is was the tallest building in Canada west […]

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A view of a road winding through a desert landscape of scrubby bushes and barren rocky mountains in the Lake Mead Recreational Area of Nevada.

No Roman Road

I was wondering what to title this image. It’s a view east along Northshore Road in the Lake Mead Recreational Area. As I was looking at the road that winds its way through the desert hills I got to thinking this is no Roman road, with all its twists and turns. And then I got to thinking of the Thomas Hardy poem. Forty years on I can still recite the opening lines, “The Roman Road runs straight and bare as […]

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