Hilda Ridge

7/15/2024

After taking doll photos at Bow Lake, we continued heading north up the Icefields Parkway. My goal was to take as many sets of photos for the story started in 2012, and not in any particular order. So I was keeping my eye open for suitable, uncrowded photo locations. Like the parking lot at Hilda Ridge, just south of the Columbia Icefields....

In the story, the three main characters had come across a lost little native girl. So, they interrupted their quest to go out from camp with the horses to look for the girl's people.

It was very cold and windy, and the sky was filled with massive storm clouds, and they'd occasionally get pelted with snow, so it was a good thing that they'd brought along some warm 'bear skins'....

6 Comments

Dorothy

7/15/2024 11:43:06 am

It is interesting to me that the dolls' faces always take on the "spirit" of the narrative. In this episode, the dolls look very serious as they try to help the lost child.

I remember the hat from previous photos. Is the design symbolic or decorative?

Martha

7/15/2024 11:50:48 am

Byuri's costume is based on authentic Northwest Coast Native regalia. In the story her name is Little Beaver, and all the images on her hat, dress and cloak are taken from traditional West Coast art depicting beavers.

Nancy

7/15/2024 02:18:42 pm

Did you make Little Beaver’s outfit? It’s superb and looks so authentic.

Martha

7/15/2024 03:24:51 pm

Yes, I made it way back in 2012 for the first set of photos taken for this story. If you go to Favourite Photos 2012, and scroll down, she stars in Pacific Princess, and the Journey Home, with her mother (Asa)

Donna

7/15/2024 04:37:28 pm

The setting is magnificent, and it does look cold and windy! It's good they brought along their "bear skins" to bundle up.

It is interesting to see the various scenes as they are shot. Seeing them all combined with the original photos from 2012 will be very interesting and well worth waiting for!

Martha

7/15/2024 05:18:19 pm

The forecast was calling for 40% chance of precipitation that day, but we chose to go up the Icefields Parkway anyways. It was spectacular, with huge storm clouds everywhere. The sun was peaking out much of the time, and every now and then we'd get a little sprinkle, but Hilda Ridge is higher elevation near the Columbia Icefields, so we'd get ice pellets instead.

Back in 2012 I had a basic outline for the story, and shot mostly travelling scenes with the dolls walking in all kinds of places both in the US and Canadian west. But I didn't have any props back then, plus the group would have needed servants with horses to set up camp everyday. So this time I was aiming for photos that included the servants and their horses, and doing campsite scenes with lots of close-ups. I was also taking photos for one of the Epilogues.

Now that I'm back home I need to shoot all the interior scenes for the story - the ones before the group leaves, and another set for when they return home. One Epilogue was already photographed back in 2012, but there's several more, including a wedding and coronation, which will likely need to be photographed at the movie studio.

I'm just posting the story photos from this trip in the order I took them. I'm probably not going to put everything together as a complete story on my website, but will turn it into a book instead. But first I need to take and process all the additional photos and write the actual story.

Hilda Ridge

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