The Rocky Mountains are majestic and welcoming. Driving to Banff National Park every morning was part of the experience as much as being there.
And playing around my camera with the shades of the sky has been challenging. The middle photo here was taken from within the car.
Stopping by and enjoying the landscape is the trip.
The few-hour drive, though, always pays off.
And the wintery lakes never disappoint.
And the snow, that blankets the surface of these lakes, makes them look almost as if there were no water beneath.
Which I like because, if one googles "Canada" or "Lake Louise", the mainstream, most popular images depict a colorful landscape with shades and hues of greens and blues.
Colours that surface, at times, from beneath the white.
A majestic, enormous forest such as this, spotted and striped with lakes and rivers, could not host a large variety of wildlife. Alas, for how big the area is, and because they tend to steer away from humans, it is nearly impossible to catch them in the wild on a casual drive.
But Park Omega, which is a state Reserve for research and preservation, offers a good chance to take a close look at some of the dwellers of the forest in a controlled environment.
The drive, though.
Time for a nice, fatty, maple-syrup-y meal, before heading to the Niagara falls.
The Niagara falls is a difficult place to photograph, in my opinion. The halo of vaporised water covers the surrounding falls from within, and makes it very difficult to take a compehensive shot of the scene.
Nevertheless, it makes for great mystical-looking photos.
I didn't feel quite inspired in the cities I visited, especially in Toronto, Montreal and Old Quebec City. Calgary, however, offers a very good opportunity for Liminal Spaces photography but, alas, I never had the chance to give it a try during my stay.
I think this one portaits fairly accurately what I felt like.
Just a bit gloomy.
With spare glimpses of lights and colours.
Because I am stil there.
