Canadian Rocky Mountains
Featured Work
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Wildflower Meadow at Mt. Robson by Roxanne Persson
Featured – November 7, 2009 in the Canadian Rocky Mountains Group
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Snowed in - Jasper Alberta Canada by Adrian Paul
This old steam engine, standing at Jasper Railway Station high in the Canadian Rockies, serves as a reminder of the days when steam ruled the Canadian Railways. The temperature – about minus 20 degrees! (Feb 1999) 605 Views – Nov 7 2009 FEATURED IN POWERED BY STEAM FEATURED IN CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS Greeting Card /
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Bighorn Sheep by Joy Danen
An immature ram came right up to pose. Bighorn Sheep are named for the large, curved horns borne by the males, or rams. Females, or ewes, also have horns, but they are short with only a slight curvature.
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Emerald Lake Lodge by Amanda White
Emerald Lake is a lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is enclosed by mountains of the President Range, as well as Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain. There is a 5.1 km trail circuiting the lake. Emerald Lake was discovered in 1882 by Tom Wilson. The Emerald Lake Lodge sits at the edge of the lake.
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The Icefields Parkway by Amanda White
Considered one of the most scenic highways in the world, the Icefields Parkway offers an ever-changing view of waterfalls, emerald lakes, alpine meadows and snow-capped peaks. For two hundred and thirty kilometres, from Lake Louise to the Jasper townsite, the Parkway winds along the shoulder of the Great Divide and passes by the spectacular mountains of the Eastern Main Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. It follows the headwaters of three major rivers and crosses two major passes en route.
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Sunwapta River, The Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada. by PhotosEcosse
The mighty mountain reflected in the River, a serene landscape that looks so tranquil, when in reality, Mother Nature here can be a savage beast. The Wolf in Sheeps clothing. / The Icefields Parkway National Park. Canada. shot on a Canon EOS 40D, mounted on tripod, polarising filter attached, f22, 1/6 sec, ISO 100, cloudy WB, RAW file. / Edited in Photoshop CS3 with minor adjustments to Levels/Curves and selective colour FEATURED IN / http://www.redbubble.com/canadian-rocky-mountains-art-photography-writing / AND http://www.redbubble.com/groups/mountains-and-light / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/northern-landscape
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Waterfowl Lakes, reflection, Icefields Parkway NP, Alberta, Canada. by PhotosEcosse
On a morning like this, where else on Earth would you want to / be? / Taken mid-morning, in mid September. Shot on a Canon EOS 20D, with polarising filter attached. FEATURED IN / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/your-magic-places / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/canadian-rocky-mountains-art-photography-writing SEE MORE OF MY CANADA SET…........
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Athabasca Glacier and Mountains, Icefields Parkway NP, Alberta, Canada by PhotosEcosse
A breathtaking scene of an astounding place. / The clouds ehance an incredible view ! Shot on a Canon EOS 20D t f22, mounted on tripod, with polariser attached. FEATURED ON HOME PAGE 26th May 2009 FEATURED IN / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/first-things / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/dslr-users-only-3-a-day / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/canadian-rocky-mountains-art-photography-writing SEE MORE OF MY CANADA SET…....
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Medicine Lake, in Fall, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada by PhotosEcosse
A place far away from all the madness. The mountain Pica were scuttling around the rocks, adding to the charm of the wilderness. Shot on a Canon EOS 20D. on a tripod, with polarising filter, f22, iso 100, auto wb, RAW file, with minimal adjustments in PS CS3. FEATURED IN / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/style-class-elegance / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/seasonal-scapes / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/canadian-rocky-mountains-art-photography-writing / AND / http://www.redbubble.com/groups/a-view-somewhere SEE MORE OF MY CANADA SET….
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Lake Louise by dsphotography
Taken at the awe inspiring Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada
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Dragon's Bones by Kevin Kroeker
BEST VIEWED LARGE / / Lake Louise, in Banff National Park, Canada / / I just got back from holidays and this is the first image I had a chance to upload. My dad said the drift wood reminded him of dino bones… so this one is for you dad :)) / / Another long exposure shot. / / Settings & Gear Used / / Manual Exposure / Shutter Speed: 183 seconds / Apeture: 13 / ISO: 100 / Focal Length: 10mm / / Canon 400D / Canon 10-22 lens / Manfrotto 055XProB Tripod / Manfrotto 222 Joystick / Cable Release / B+W ND110 Filter (10 stops) / / Visit my website On The Rock Photography / / MORE FROM MY ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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Heading South,Kooteny National Park by PFrogg
View Large Flowing south from the Continental Divide to warmer climates / Taken on hwy 93 south in BC / Olympus E510 14/42 lens / July 11 09 / HDR Photomatix 3.2 lightroom 2.3
Recent Work
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Emerald Lake Reflection by Jeannine St-Amour
This shot was taken this summer at / Emerald Lake, BC I have cropped this image just to keep the reflection and rotated it upside down. Panasonic FZ-7
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Chinook Evening by ABPhotoArt
BEST VIEWED LARGER Alternate title – God’s smile…. This chinook arch panorama shot was taken tonight, Nov. 16/09 from our deck in Okotoks, Alberta, using the phenomenal panorama feature of my new Sony DSC-HX1. The Rocky Mountains are mostly hidden in the clouds on the horizon which also negated the orange hues taking hold this evening. Chinook Wind / From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia: / / Adiabatic warming of downward moving air produces the warm Chinook wind / Chinook Arch / One of the most striking features of the chinook is the chinook arch, which is a band of stationary stratus clouds caused by air rippling over the mountains due to orographic lifting. To those unfamiliar with the chinook, the chinook arch may look like a threatening storm cloud at times. However, they rarely produce rain or snow. They can also create stunning sunrises and sunsets. The stunning colours seen in the chinook arch are quite common. Typically the colours will change throughout the day, starting with yellow, orange, red and pink shades in the morning as the sun comes up, grey shades in the mid day changing to pink/red colours, and then orange/yellow hues just before the sun sets. Chinook winds, often called chinooks, commonly refers to foehn winds in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest. / Chinook is falsely claimed by popular mythology in Alberta and Montana and similar inland areas to mean “snow-eater” but it is really the name of a people in the region where the usage was first derived. The reference to a wind or weather system, simply “a Chinook”, originally meaning a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest (the Chinook people lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River). A strong Chinook can make snow one foot deep almost vanish in one day. The snow partly melts and partly evaporates in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20°C (−4°F) to as high as 10°C to 20°C (50°F to 68°F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels. The greatest recorded temperature change in 24 hours was caused by Chinook winds on January 15, 1972, in Loma, Montana; the temperature rose from -48°C (-56°F) to 9°C (49°F). How chinooks occur / The Chinook is a foehn wind, a rain shadow wind which results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes. / As moist winds from the Pacific (also called Chinooks) are forced to rise over the mountains, the moisture in the air is condensed and falls out as precipitation, while the air cools at the moist adiabatic rate of 5°C/1000 m (3.5°F/1000 ft). The dried air then descends on the leeward side of the mountains, warming at the dry adiabatic rate of 10°C/1000m (5.5°F/1000 ft). / The turbulence of the high winds also can prevent the normal nocturnal temperature inversion from forming on the lee side of the slope, allowing night-time temperatures to remain elevated. / Quite often when the Pacific Northwest coast is being drenched by rain, the windward side of the Rockies is being hammered by snow (as the air loses its moisture), and the leeward side of the Rockies in Alberta is basking in a foehn chinook. The three different weather conditions are all caused by the same flow of air, hence the confusion over the use of the name “Chinook wind”. / Two common cloud patterns seen during this time are: / · A chinook arch overhead / and/or / · A bank of clouds (also referred to as a cloud wall) obscuring the mountains to the west. It appears to be an approaching storm, but does not advance any further east. Pronunciation in BC and the Pacific Northwest / In British Columbia and parts of the Pacific Northwest, the word Chinook is pronounced with a tshi-, as in Salish. In Central Washington, Alberta, and the rest of Canada, it is pronounced with a shi-, as in French. This difference may be because it was the Métis employees of the Hudson’s Bay Company, who were familiar with the Chinook people and country, brought the name east of the Cascades and Rockies, along with their own ethnified pronunciation. Early records are clear that tshinook was the original pronunciation, before the word’s transmission east of the Rockies. In Canada / / Chinooks are most prevalent over southern Alberta in Canada, especially in a belt from Pincher Creek and Crowsnest Pass through Lethbridge, which get 30 to 35 chinook days per year on average. Chinooks become less frequent further south in the United States, and are not as common north of Red Deer. But they can and do occur as far north as Grande Prairie in northwestern Alberta and Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, and as far south as Albuquerque, New Mexico. / In southern Alberta, most of the winter can be spent with little or no snow on the ground. In Calgary, there is snow about 59% of the time on Christmas, compared to 88% for Edmonton. In Canada, only the West Coast of British Columbia and southern Ontario have fewer white Christmases than southern Alberta. / In Lethbridge, Chinook winds can gust in excess of hurricane force (120 km/h or 75 mph). On November 19, 1962, an especially powerful chinook there gusted to 171 km/h (107 mph). / In Pincher Creek, the temperature rose by 41°C (from -19°C to 22°C) in one hour in 1962 – trains have been known to be derailed by chinook winds there. During the winter, driving can be treacherous as the wind blows snow across roadways sometimes causing roads to vanish and snowdrifts to pile up higher than 1 meter. Empty semi trucks driving along Highway 3 and other routes in Southern Alberta have been blown over by the high gusts of wind caused by chinooks. / Calgary also gets many chinooks – the Bow Valley in the Canadian Rockies west of the city acts as a natural wind tunnel funneling the chinook winds. / In February 1992, Claresholm, Alberta hit 24°C (75°F) – one of Canada’s highest February temperatures. Records / Loma, Montana boasts as having the most extreme recorded temperature change in a 24-hour period. On January 15, 1972, the temperature rose from −54 °F (-48 °C) to 49 °F (9 °C), a 103 °F (57 °C) change in temperature; a dramatic example of the regional Chinook wind in action. / The Black Hills of South Dakota are home to the world’s fastest recorded rise in temperature. On January 22, 1943, at about 7:30am MST, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota was -4 °F (-20 °C). The chinook kicked in, and two minutes later the temperature was +45 °F (7 °C). The 49 degree (27 °C) rise in two minutes set a world record that is still on the books. By 9:00am, the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to -4 °F. The 58 degree drop took only 27 minutes.[citation needed] / The aforementioned 107 mph / 171 km/h wind in Alberta and other local wind records west of the 100th meridian on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, as well as instances of the record high and low temperature for a given day of the year being set on the same date are largely the result of these winds.[citation needed] / On rare occasions chinook winds generated on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains have reached or passed the Mississippi River. Chinooks versus the Arctic air mass / In mid-winter, the chinook can seem to do battle with the Arctic air mass at times. It is not unheard of for people in Lethbridge to complain of −20°C (−4°F) temperatures while those in Cardston, just 77 kilometers (48 miles) down the road, enjoy +10°C (50°F) temperatures in shorts and T-shirts. This clash of temperatures can remain stationary, or move back and forth, in the latter case causing such fluctuations as a warm morning, a bitterly cold afternoon, and a warm evening. A curtain of fog often accompanies the clash between warm to the west and cold to the east. / It has been reported on a local TV historical program that many years ago Cardston once reported a curtain of fog remaining over Main Street for many hours. The west side of town was balmy with melting snow, while the east side of town was bitterly cold. In Calgary, recent winters have seen situations where the airport in the northeast part of the city is reporting around −20°C (−4°F) and the southwest part of the city is sitting at +7°C (45°F). First nations myth of B.C. / Native legend of the Lil’wat subgroup of the St’at’imc tells of a girl named Chinook-Wind, who married Glacier, and moved to his country, which was in the area of today’s Birkenhead River. She pined for her warm sea-home in the southwest, and sent a message to her people. They came to her in a vision in the form of snowflakes, and told her they were coming to get her. They came in great number and quarrelled with Glacier over her, but they overwhelmed him and she went home with them in the end. / While on the one hand this tale tells a tribal family-relations story, and family/tribal history as well, it also seems to be a parable of a typical weather pattern of a southwesterly wind at first bringing snow, then rain, and also of the melting of a glacier, namely the Place Glacier near Gates Lake at Birken. Thus it also tells of a migration of people to the area, (or a war, depending on how the details of the legend might be read, with Chinook-Wind taking the part of Helen in a First Nations parallel to the Trojan War). Folklore / There are three especially famous chinook folk tales that most people in southern Alberta probably know in some form from childhood stories. / · A man rode his horse to church, only to find just the steeple sticking out of the snow. So, he tied his horse to the steeple with the other horses, and went down the snow tunnel to attend services. When everybody emerged from the church, they found that a chinook had melted all of the snow, and their horses were now all dangling from the church steeple. / · A man was riding his sleigh to town when a chinook overcame him. He kept pace with the wind, and while the horses were running belly deep in snow, the sleigh rails were running in mud up to the buckboard. The cow that was tied behind was kicking up dust. / · A man and his wife were out during a chinook. The wife was heavily dressed and the man was wearing summer clothes. When the couple had returned home, the man had frostbite, and the woman had heatstroke.
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Mount Robson...a GigaPan panorama by Darbs
Mount Robson stands in solitary splendor as the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies in this late evening shot. At 12,972 feet it’s also one of the most difficult climbs in the Rockies, with less than 10% of the attempts successful. Gigantic ice feathers crown the summit which is nearly 2 vertical miles above the viewpoint here. My next Gigapan of Robson will be from Berg Lake on the northwest side, but it’s a hefty hike through the Valley of a Thousand Falls… probably next summer. / Mount Robson is located on the Yellowhead Highway 16 between Valemount, BC and Jasper, AB. Composed of 40 separate shots stitched with the Gigapan software.
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Great White North #1 by Jason Laderoute
Waterton National Park / Alberta, Canada. / Nikon D80; Nikor 18-135mm AFS ED F3.8 Lens / 220 Views
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Pyramid Lake, Jasper, Alberta by Adrian Paul
Pyramid Lake is kidney-shaped lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It lies at the foot of Pyramid Mountain, a natural landmark that overlooks the town of Jasper. Pyramid Lake has a total area of 1.2 km2 (0.5 sq mi) and discharges in Athabasca River through the 2 km (1 mi) long Pyramid Creek. Greeting Card / Framed Print /
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Spirit Island (1) by Jann Ashworth
There are millions of pictures of world-famous Spirit Island, at the upper end of Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta,Canada. I always try to find a different angle, if possible, and I liked the way the mountains provided a backdrop to the stand of trees on the end of the island.This is actually just a small sandspit with trees on it, the actual island is a lot bigger but we didn’t have time to do much exploring. The peaks are one of many ridges of the Rocky Mountains. And the elusive sunlight gave me a short break! Jasper N.P. is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sept. 4, 2009, Sony DSCF828 camera Featured in Live, Love, Dream: / Featured in Northern landscape / Featured in # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE /
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Misty Mountain Hop by Doug Keech
A view from Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park Alberta Canada…
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Early Start by Doug Keech
Fishermen head out on a misty morning from the shores of spectacular Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta Canada.
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Castle Mountain ~ Banff National Park ~ Alberta by Barbara Burkhardt
Feature Image – Mountains and Mountain Light Group From a day in Banff National Park, Alberta – Canada / Canadian Rockies Nikon D40X / Nikkor 18-55 lens
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Lake Louise ~ Alberta ~ Canada by Barbara Burkhardt
View towards Plain of the Six Glaciers Banff National Park From a day at Lake Louise,Banff National Park Alberta, Canada – May 2008 Nikon D40X
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Start Another Day ~ Moraine Lake series by Barbara Burkhardt by Barbara Burkhardt
Feature Image – Fine Art of Landscape Photography Group Feature Image – Masters of the Scenic Group Feature Image – The Woman Photographer Group Feature Image – DSLR Users Only Group Feature Image – Live and Let Live Group Feature Image – Top Shelf & Nature Art Group Moraine Lake, Banff National Park Alberta – Canada. Canadian Rockies With an early start we were rewarded with a calm morning and a cloudless sky. I have assembled a selection of images to compile a 2010 calendar this being the cover image. Nikon D40X / 18-55mm Nikkor lens / 1/200sec / f7.1 / Iso 200 / 22mm focal length /
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Moraine Lake by Patrick Latter
Featured in “Landscape Photography” Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada I knew going that I wanted a shot dramatically different then the standard “Moraine Lake” photo that everyone has. I took this photo in the early spring of this year, before the lake had reached it’s normal levels. Didn’t realize it at the time but I was very lucky to have gotten this shot as I came back 3 days later and the rock had already been completely submerged. Woke up at 2am and drove 2 and half hours in the dark and then slept at the lake for about 30 mins before going out to take pictures. Spent almost 4 hours walking the shores trying different shots. I was about to go home when i spotted this rock, I knew I had finally found the shot I wanted. Cheers
About This Group
For those who love the vastness, splendour and wildness of the Canadian Rockies this group is for you. Share your stories, photographs and art of this great (as yet) unspoiled landscape. We may also find ways to cooperate to help protect it. Photos of the wildlife that make up the Rocky Mountains are also welcome. Please make sure photos are of the mountains and its beauty (landscapes, wildlife, flora, fauna, and such). Event photos are better suited to the Canada group.
Canada is a wonderful place and the Rocky Mountains make it that much more special.
All photos must have been taken in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and are 100% Canadian Rocky Mountains.
What are the Canadian Rocky Mountains? See this MAP
PLEASE INDICATE WHERE IN THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS YOUR PICTURES OR ART ARE FROM.
Poor quality photos will be rejected, and so will most black and white photos, unless they add drama that could not have been captured in colour.
Last challenge winner: paolo1955 with Morraine Lake – Banff National Park – Alberta – Canada
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