7 favorites     4 comments    395 visits

1/1000 f/4.0 8.7 mm ISO 100

Panasonic DMC-FZ200

EXIF - See more details

See also...

50 plus photographers 50 plus photographers


Landscape Lovers Landscape Lovers


See more...

Keywords

nature
E edge of Rocky Mountains
W of Calgary
Bow Valley Provincial Park
beauty in nature
Alberta
Canada
reeds
scenery
lake
mountains
trees
landscape
pond
water
Middle Lake


Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved

395 visits


Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park

Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
This is where seven of us spent the day yesterday, recording all flora and fauna that we saw. Bow Valley Provincial Park lies at the foot of the very first mountains when one drives westwards from Calgary for roughly 45 minutes. In other words, the Park lies at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. It's a very popular place with botanists, birders and photographers of any kind. We weren't sure just what we would find when we arrived, especially how much or little the Park had been affected by the recent flooding in Alberta. Parts of the Park were closed, so we didn't walk at Many Springs, but instead walked the Flowing Waters Trail and around Middle Lake (that you see in my photo above). The water level was high and the reeds around one part of the lake were lying on top of the water. I had seen two Common Loons out in the middle of the lake on 18 June, when I spent the day in the rain walking around this lake and Many Springs. Wonderfully, these Loons were still there yesterday and we saw and heard them calling. Such an amazing sound. They tend to stay in the middle of the lake, which makes it difficult or impossible to photograph them. My next photo shows one of them, 48x zoomed and heavily cropped : ) The weather was perfect yesterday and it felt so good to be out and to have no rain at all. I couldn't help but feel rather guilty, though, going out enjoying myself in such a beautiful place, knowing that there were so many people back in Calgary and so many other parts of southern Alberta, who were dealing with flooded basements and other damage. The person who was going to be leading this trip lives in nearby Exshaw and he was unable to come because of dealing with the bad flooding there. In fact, sadly, it's most likely that he has lost his house completely. It's so frustrating to me that a painful back, hips, etc. won't let me help with any clean-up. All I can do is donate to the Red Cross, and carry on with my usual volunteers shifts. I was expecting to hear from many flood victims, but only had a call from one family who had had to come to Calgary from High River, where everyone was so badly affected by the floods. We are expecing a lot more calls from flood victims in perhaps another couple of weeks.

Lol, I'm not sure if I slept for 12 or 13 hours last night!!! Haven't done that for years - I usually get between 2 and maybe five hours of sleep a night. Only got about an hour and a half of sleep befere I went on this trip yesterday, partly because I was busy posting the rest of my Flickr photos on another site, but mainly because of emotional tiredness from seeing all the devastation form the "Flood of the Century" in Calgary and the rest of the southern part of the province. I was so tired when I got home late afternoon and was falling asleep at my computer, so by 4:00 p.m. I had no choice but to lie down for maybe "an hour", ha.

Puzzler4879, , LeapFrog, and 3 other people have particularly liked this photo


Comments
 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Haha ... sounds like "sleeping" is just a waste of time for you Anne ... but it will catch up on you every once in awhile ... LOL ... amazing shot and view, especially with the Rockies as the backdrop ... well taken!!
11 years ago.
Anne Elliott club has replied to LeapFrog
Lol, Art - I think you might just be right about the "waste of time" thing. Or rather, I begrudge time spent sleeping, but usually it's just because there are so many things I need or want to do, that I just don't get to bed till early hours of each morning. Every day, I tell myself that I must change my sleep pattern and get a lot more sleep - somehow, it just doesn't happen, which is so bad.
11 years ago.
 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
An Excellent View!!
Seen in

'Scapes!!
11 years ago.
 Puzzler4879
Puzzler4879
Spectacular scenery and a totally superb shot!
Thoroughly enjoyed in "Scapes."
www.ipernity.com/group/329975
11 years ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.