MORAINE LAKE
Moraine Lake ( Banff, Alberta, B.C.), is known as Valley of the Ten Peaks. This is where the Wenkchemna Peak Mountains are hard not to notice, rising from the valley background.
Not all the peaks are shown in the photo, but the ones that are shown from right to left are, Mount Fay at 3,235 metres ( 10,613 ft) high, Mount Little, 3,088 metres ( 10,131 ft) high, Mount Bowlen, 3,072 metres ( 10,079 ft) high, and Mount Tonsa at 3,057 metres ( 10,030 ft) high.
The tallest of the peaks that is not shown, is Deltaform Mountain at 3,424 metres ( 11,234 ft) high.
The Valley of the Ten Peaks was featured on the reverse side of the 1970 and 1978 issues of the Canadian twenty dollar bill.
Note; When we arrived later in the afternoon to Moraine Lake ( shot taken at 4:15 pm, Aug 2nd/08), the lighting was not conducive to taking shots of the mountain range and sky area (shown in the photo). I decided to take one shot set up for exposing the clouds and sky portion and another exposed for the treed and lake area. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to delete the one I took that was exposed for the trees and lake area, so I was left with the just the one photo. Needless to say, the treed and lake area was under exposed and worse off was the treed area. Shot in Raw file, I attempted to edit in Lightroom2. I decided to make two separate copies. I edited one for the treed and lake area and another separate copy of the same pic, for the mountain and sky portion. Than editing in photoshop CS2, I layered the two pics one on top of the other and preceded to paint back the mountain and sky portion of the better exposed copy for that area. After finishing there, I did a little more tweaking and I was surprised to finish up with not such a bad photo after all! This was my second ever visit to Moraine Lake and the first time, I was only ten years old and so the second visit brought back fond memories of visiting when just a child. It is nice to have this pic to remember my visit by!
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BigD
The rocky mountain is so beautiful, Sandy plus everything else.
Sandy Stewart replied
Yes, it is certainly a beautiful place to visit. Thank you very much! :)
eaglewatcher
Wow!!! Incredible shot—well done!!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Michael! It took a little editing work to bring it back to what the scene was like. lol :)
Jay Ryser
You’re on fire today, aren’t you?
Sandy Stewart replied
Oh oh, did I add just a little too much color? lol
Rajdev D
Beautiful shot.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you so much Rajdev! :)
David Friederich
Sandy, I have fond memories from Moraine Lake, too. Such a spectacularly beautiful place. I love your description, but I think the photo is amazing!
Sandy Stewart replied
Once you’ve been there, I think its hard not to take with you, such fond memories. Nice that we as humans can keep such fond memories. Thank you so very much for your kind compliment! :)
Marvin Collins
Gorgeous, great job on this, it is beautiful!!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you so much Marvin! :)
satwant
I am happy to be introduced by Rajdev Dhiman a RB friend. Well Sandy, I like this country, Specially BC very much. I am visiting this country almost 8 years now. My friend lives there in surrey. So we always travell to Surrey to Jasper every time. I think we can be benifitted by seeing each other’s work on RB. Thanks
satwant
Hi Sandy. this oicture is great, harpness, colors and placing is all perfect. Well done.
Sandy Stewart replied
Nice to meet you satwant and thank you very much for your kind compliment! :)
Yool
Wow….great grand view Sandy…..!!!!!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Yool! :) Sorry for the slow thank you reply. I somehow missed thanking you and I am certainly thankful!!! :))
Victoria Jostes
just beautiful!
Sandy Stewart replied
Awe,....thank you Victoria!
ein22
Another one of those great layering photos. The colours and quality of this photo is amazing, It deserves to be a wall somewhere. Great shot.
Andrew
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you so much! I still have to go through more landscape shots that I’ve taken, but once I’m done, I will certainly be choosing two or three to enlarge and frame for my walls. lol Many thanks again ein22!
JerryI
I have to agree with everyone else, this is awesome. The colors and the pieces all come together very well. The clouds, the mountains, the valley, the trees, the water and the people. Nice work Sandy.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you so very much Jerry! :)
Jason Connolly
These landscape really are something else, just so beautiful Sandy, a fav for me buddy..
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much jason! Until this year, I really didn’t capture much in the way of landscapes. I took more in the way of macro and bird and wildlife type photos. It’s been a refreshing change to enjoy more in the way of landscape photography this year.
JoAnnHayden
I can feel the presence of God in such a beautiful stunning place. Beautiful capture
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you JoAnnHayden!:)
Vickie Emms
this is a beautiful jewel toned shot of a place I love to visit.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much! Yes, I hear you, as I too love to visit the area as well. :)
ToddDuvall
Wow! Great shot Sandy! Everything about it is beautiful, the color of that lake is amazing against the red boats.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Todd! I’m glad I put in the effort for it! :)
Brian Carey
Beautiful photograph Sandy!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you Brian! :)
davidmilne
Scenery to die for,super shot Sandy!!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much david! :)
Sharon Johnstone
Wow….What an amazing shot! It has to go on my list of places to visit!!!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Sharon! you certainly wouldn’t be disappointed if you visited the Banff area!
Petri Volanen
Huh – another unbelievable beautiful view. Really good work!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Petri! :)
Béla Török
Oh,what a view! Great work my friend!
Sandy Stewart replied
Yes, it certainly was breathtaking. Thank you very much! :)
kentuckyblueman
Wow,Very beautiful place to visit!thank for sharing!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you for stopping by and thank you very much for your kind comment Kentuckyblueman! :)
Klaus
Gorgeous capture.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you Klaus! :)
Steve Mezardjian
Sandy, When I last went to Lake Louise I saw the turn off for Lake Moraine while mountain biking and thought after seeing how beautiful Louise was that nothing could probably rival it,
I was mistaken. Absolutely awesome shot of an absolutely breathtaking scene. Timing is everything isn’t it?
Sandy Stewart
Thank you very much Steve! Wow, you biked it,....what an experience that must have been! The girlfriend who I was traveling with, mentioned how different it is to experience traveling the area on a motorcycle( which she had previously done a couple of times). While on our photo taking trip, she mentioned how different it would be to experience on a bike, because you would feel more like you were experiencing the environment more. We actually met up with a young fellow who had biked from Quebec and he said he was on his way to Vancouver B.C..
Yes, timing is certainly a big factor in pic taking and now that I have been there, I know on my next visit when to visit some areas when lighting is conducive to taking better photos! :)
George Link
Another wonder-FULL capture!
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much George! :)
John Quinn
Out of this world beautiful
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you so very much John! :)
Rany Lutz
Exceptional contrasts here. Colors and textures excellent.
Sandy Stewart replied
Thank you very much Rany! It took a little bit of work to get this one to appear like it did in real life. :)
Kody J Ague
Awesome photo again! you’re quite talented. I’ve also noticed that I think you use smilies even more than me!! :)
Sandy Stewart replied
Awe,.....thank you so much Kody! Smiles are a good thing! : ))