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Trip Pictures

8/22/2015

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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.
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Dawn at the Icefields Centre
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Morning Reflection along the Saskatchewan River
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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..
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I love snow, so took advantage of the opportunity to take some doll photos....
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Tangle Falls in the snow....
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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...
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....and following the Athabasca River upstream....
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...and Kyle....
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Babel link
8/22/2015 04:25:24 am

Which decoration, he has nothing to say there it is so beautiful and dolls are very lucky to rest in a so beautiful journey ...... :o))

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Jane
8/22/2015 06:46:14 pm

It has taken me simply ages to write my reply here as I am really struggling to find the *right* words to use.

These photos are just so beautiful and so humbling and yet so thrilling at the same time.
And then when you place the dolls in the landscape they just fire so much imagination in me. You really are so inspirational!!!
Thank you so much........wow!

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Martha
8/22/2015 10:40:53 pm

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked the photos. The Canadian Rockies are so spectacular, and it's nice to know someone else likes the pictures. Whenever I post one of my favourite scenic trip photos on Facebook there's rarely even a 'Like'. Mostly they go completely ignored. Yet, post a doll photo, and within a minute or two, the 'Likes' start pouring in.

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