Waterton Sunrise II - Alberta (Larger View Available)

This image has been reprocessed and a larger version placed here. Taken in 2009, today I would do a portrait mode panorama. Oh well - you live and learn!

 

thks.

Hi Tony,

Magnificent landscape. In my view the foreground is the least interesting part, and I would suggest reducing (not removing) that part. The mountains, the clouds and the water are stunning. I also appreciate the remote big house (a church?). Best regards Per.

Per your visit and constructive input is appreciated. I actually darkened the foreground because I knew it would attract attention. I think I will follow your advice. The building out there in the distance is the Prince of Wales Hotel. When I took this shot it had already closed for the season and I know two photo.net members who spent their honeymoon there. I peaked inside and all of the furniture was covered with white sheets.

Here is a link for that hotel: http://www.nationalparkreservations.com/glacier_princewales.php.

 

here is an extract from wikipedia:

 

Waterton Lake is a mountain lake in southern Alberta, Canada and northern Montana, USA. The lake is composed of two bodies of water, connected by a shallow channel known locally as the Bosphorus. The two parts are referred to as Lower Wateron Lake, and Upper Waterton Lake, the latter of which is crossed at the tip by the Canada-United States border.

The northern, lower end of the main lake lies in Waterton Lakes National Park while the upper, southern part of the lake is located in Glacier National Park. In 1979, UNESCO established the Waterton Biosphere Reserve to protect the diverse habitats including prairie grasslands, aspen parkland, subalpine forests, alpine tundra and freshwater fens that surround the lake.

 

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park was created by the US and Canada in 1932, and in 1976 it was designated an International Biosphere Reserve. Later, in 1995, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

majestic and mellow. very relaxing.

I was there in June.  The weather was very windy and rainy-- the kind of weather that I seem to experience on most photo trips!  I really like the horizontal format and composition.  The golden lighting and clouds are wonderful. 

As you know, one of my favorite places!  Beautiful morning and an excellent shot... Mike

Beautiful scenery.  I hope to see this for the first time this summer.

Exceptional, Tony.

Cheers

Volker

I agree with Mr. Madsen, but otherwise very well balanced and captivating.

Many thanks to everyone who visited and commented.

 

Ranga - glad you found it majestic - so did I.  I was up around 4 in the morning in a town called Lethbridge and had to do a little driving to get to Waterton for sunrise.

 

Jeff - thanks for the visit. I hope you have better luck with weather on your future trips which may be more interspersed based on what you told me recently. I was here Oct 1st and they were expecting snow the following day. Maybe you should try for late September.

 

Dominick - Mike (MLM) told that when he visited (August?) he did not have good luck with the weather but sure hope you do.

 

Volker - good to hear from you  - I must stop by to see what high creativity images you have been working on.

 

Joseph - I agree with Per also. I got back to Lethbridge around 9 pm that day and I was so exhausted that I did not eat and without taking off my jacket I just lay on the bed and never got up until the following morning. It was a 'good' tired.

 

All the very best,

 

 

 

Best regards Tony!

 

PDE

When I was young I happened upon and bought a collection of paper folders in a used book store, each containing a single landscape scene from one of the 50 states. They dated from the early 1950's and were part of a Shell Oil promotion. Each time you went into one of their stations for gas, you got one of the folders. (The attendant washed your windows and checked your oil as well. Talk about the good ol' days) There was something about each photo that was a little surreal, maybe due to the printing process they used to produce the pictures. The colors seemed more vivid and slightly warmer and cooler than you'd expect, as if they'd been superimposed on the image. The effect was like looking at scenes that seemed more like artist's imaginings than actual places. It was that little oddity of color and printing that caught your eye and that stays with me even to this day. This is kind of a long-winded way of saying that this picture produced the same effect on me. Really quite a distinctive photo.

Pierre - Glad you liked it.

 

Jack:  I am happy that you found the image distinctive and that it caught your eye. I cannot ask for anything else.  I was lucky and prepared. The reason I say lucky is because I know two other photo.net photographers that visited this location in the not too distant past and they each encountered a dull overcast day with intermittent rain. I guess I was prepared because, against every bodily fibre and instinct, I had to get up at 4 in the morning to position myself for a sunrise hoping for some interesting light.

 

I should be thankful for the cold and warm light that was bestowed on me that day.  But sometimes greed sets in and I am thinking that I should have had a better sky -  - reds, oranges, blues with streaks of almost white clouds as if painted by a manic artist with visions of Armageddon.  Maybe even ask 'the man' to throw in a double rainbow! To get an opportunity like that I might have to live in Waterton everyday for year and that is certainly not in the cards. And the reason I say that is because I have been able to capture manic artist scenes like that in a Candiac park 10 minutes from where I live because of very frequent visits over many years.  

 

Pierre and Jack, I appreciate your kind words and support,

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

I recall your original image and the fascinating Parks Canada program that gave a very intimate introduction to this fabulous Hotel. An amazing capture, one of the best I've seen of this part of the US and Canada.