Category: landscape

Photographing Yellowstone: Part 1 The Canyon

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Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone National Park

This is the first in a four-part series on photographing Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Few places offer such an incredible variety of photo possibilities, from stunning landscapes to wildly colourful thermal features, along with fascinating critters. First we’ll look at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which is what impressed us most. The next posting will look at the park’s outstanding thermal… Read morePhotographing Yellowstone: Part 1 The Canyon

Badland Photography, Grasslands National Park

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Grasslands National Park, East Block

  Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan offers a wealth of photo possibilities. With one of the largest expanses of native prairie in North America, the park abounds with sweeping river vistas, imposing buttes atop rolling uplands, rugged badlands, and a rich array of wildlife from bison, to mule deer, pronghorn, rare burrowing owls, and the only black-tailed prairie dogs in Canada.     If… Read moreBadland Photography, Grasslands National Park

Saskatchewan’s Great Sand Hills

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  The Great Sand Hills of southwest Saskatchewan are the second largest expanse of sand dunes in Canada. Only the Athabasca Sand Dunes in northern Saskatchewan are larger. One huge advantage of visiting the Great Sand Hills is their easy accessibility – you can simply drive right up to them. The hills cover a vast area of native prairie including not only dunes, but also… Read moreSaskatchewan’s Great Sand Hills

Riding Mountain – North America’s Surprising Centre

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Sunset Lake Audy

What we like best about Canada’s Riding Mountain National Park is the remarkable range of possibilities for photography. Its setting in western Manitoba puts the park near the centre of the North American continent, so the landscape and vegetation combine influences from every direction. Aspen parkland dotted with wetlands mixes with boreal forest and lakelands more common to the north. Lush stands of hardwood forest… Read moreRiding Mountain – North America’s Surprising Centre

Photographing the World’s Most Famous Glacier

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Perito Moreno Glacier

A three-hour flight from Buenos Aires brings us to El Calafate, a rapidly growing tourist town in the southwest corner of Argentina. Its prime location makes it a popular jumping-off point to explore southern Patagonia, with one of the world’s most famous glaciers less than a two-hour drive away. Driving west of town, we follow the shore of Lago Argentino, its waters a brilliant turquoise… Read morePhotographing the World’s Most Famous Glacier