Writing-on-Stone: Rock Art and Hoodoos
Alberta’s Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park has the largest collection of aboriginal rock art on the North American Great Plains in an unusual prairie landscape.
Category: landscape
5 Top Photo Sites Cypress Hills West Block
The Cypress Hills, straddling the Saskatchewan/Alberta border, rank among Canada’s top destinations for photography. Here we’ll focus on one of our favourite parts of the hills – the West Block of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, which is on the Saskatchewan side, next to the Alberta border. While photo possibilities are almost endless, these are our 5 top photo sites for camera buffs. 1) Conglomerate Cliffs… Read more5 Top Photo Sites Cypress Hills West Block
Big Bang at Fort Walsh
Fort Walsh lies in a scenic valley next to Battle Creek in southwest Saskatchewan. There are two main reasons to come here – the spectacular setting in the beautiful Cypress Hills, and a past so significant that it changed the course of Canadian history. In 1873, this was site of the Cypress Hills Massacre, which spawned the name Battle Creek. American wolf hunters… Read moreBig Bang at Fort Walsh
Photographing Yellowstone – Part 4 Planning
As we discussed in the past three postings, Yellowstone National Park excels as a photography destination. If there is a downside to visiting Yellowstone, it’s the sheer number of people that also find it a great place to visit. Over three million people come every year, the vast majority between June and September. Our preferred style of travel is having the maximum amount of… Read morePhotographing Yellowstone – Part 4 Planning
Photographing Yellowstone: Part 3 Wildlife
We watch from the side of the road as a female wolf gorges herself on an elk that the pack had killed the previous night. When she leaves, she is so full of meat that it seems an effort to walk. The den is about two miles away and she is likely taking food back to the pups. Almost immediately after she leaves, a… Read morePhotographing Yellowstone: Part 3 Wildlife
Photographing Yellowstone: Part 2 Thermal Activity
Yellowstone National Park boasts something like half the world’s geothermal features – a wonderland of gushing geysers, steaming hillsides, boiling mud, and multi-hued pools that seem to be oozing paint. The most famous feature is Old Faithful Geyser which faithfully spews a white column of boiling water 180 feet into the air every 90 minutes or so. It’s so predictable that the nearby visitor… Read morePhotographing Yellowstone: Part 2 Thermal Activity