Trip Pictures

While my house is upside-down for continuing renovations, I've been spending a lot of time trying to catch up with finishing a trip album of the photos I took back in 2012 of a four week trip west across the US, then up to Vancouver, and back home across Canada. It was also my first real attempt at taking dolls along with the intention of shooting a photo story.

We are planning on heading out west again this fall, and I'd really like the old trip album finished before I end up with another couple thousand photos. I've gotten as far as the last few days in the Canadian Rockies. We had had to make a huge detour up to Jasper because the Trans-Canada Highway was closed through Glacier National Park due to a massive land slide from days of torrential rains, and there's only three ways through the Rockies. So these are from the first day down the Icefields Parkway from Jasper National Park, down to Lake Louise, in Banff.

Dawn at the Icefields Centre

Morning Reflection along the Saskatchewan River

Peyto Lake, Banff National Park

It was early June and the weather was not very cooperative that trip. Way too much rain, with very gloomy weather, and very little sunshine. In fact, the next day, on June 9th we drove back up the Icefields Parkway in a snow storm..

I love snow, so took advantage of the opportunity to take some doll photos....

Tangle Falls in the snow....

After spending a day in Jasper, we headed down the Icefields Parkway again. It's one of our most favourite drives anywhere - 232 kilometres (144 miles) of gorgeous, unspoiled mountain wilderness. This third time we stopped to take lots of doll photos, many of which I'm now processing for the very first time.  Like this one of my three adventurers at the top of a waterfall...

....and following the Athabasca River upstream....

...and Kyle....