CLD deadline

My Certified Landscape Designer (CLD) portfolio ready to go... finally... this thing was a lot of work. A LOT of work. So good feeling to get it done and off to the review commitee and now maybe I can go back to a little shooting in my free time instead of working on plans, photos, specs, and verbage for this project. Oh, yeah... I guess I'll just go back to plans, specs etc for my job now that its starting to get really busy again. Bummer. But I'll ride the high for getting this puppy done for as long as I can.

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Fernie

Family ski trip to Fernie this past weekend. This is White Pass on our second day skiing with my Dad (71 and going strong... way to go Dad!) and Michael the snowboarder who spends part of his day in this pose because it's too hard to stand when stopped. Just one more reason why skiing is way cooler than boarding. If you see Michael tell him that these are 'ghost trees' and I didn't make up that term.

Incidentally these photos shot with our Canon SD600... If I'd had my Rebel then there would be some really cool tree shots, but with tons of fresh powder on a ten foot base today wasn't about shoot'n.

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Puffy Jacket

It's a puffy jacket day... -31. Bare finger freezes to shutter release in Tee-minus 1,2...

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Nakiska

First time I've taken a camera skiing this year... groomed runs, no people... so not a lot of shoot'n, mostly skiing.

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Prairie Mountain

Looking North toward Moose Mountain.

View to the South-west.

A solo leg stretcher/cardio post-turkey wheeze before heading into the office for a few hours on Friday. 7.6km, 716m elevation.

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2007 "Best Of"

A representative sample of some of the places I haunted this past year. Enjoy!

Canyon Creek ice caves (Kananaskis)

Bertha Lake (Waterton NP)

Waterton NP

Mt Lady MacDonald (Bow Valley PP)

Mt. Lady MacDonald ridge

Mt. Fable (Bow Valley PP) ...scrambled up bottom right to middle left, then summit.

Mt. Fable (Bow Valley PP) ...view from

Whaleback Ridge (Black Mnt access, Hwy 22)

Mt. Bourgeau (Banff NP)

Mt. Bourgeau (Banff NP) ...view from

Mt. Burke (Kananaskis)

Og Lake (Mt. Assiniboine PP)

Mt. Assiniboine (Mt. Assiniboine PP)

Lake Magog (Mt Assiniboine PP)

Lake Magog (Mt. Assiniboine PP)

Sandpiper (Lake Magog)

Sunshine Meadows (Banff NP)

Mt. Indefatigable (Kananaskis) ...view from

Mt. Indefatigable (Kananaskis)

Col above Rawson Lake overlooking Upper Kananaskis Lake (Kananaskis)

Death Canyon Shelf (Grand Teton NP, WY)

Grand, Middle, and South Tetons (Grand Teton NP)

"Ent Tree" (Grand Teton NP)

Marmot (Grand Teton NP)

Avalanche Divide (Grand Teton NP) ...view from

North Fork Cascade Canyon (Grand Teton NP)

Lake Solitude (Grand Teton NP)

Lake Solitude (Grand Teton NP)

Pronghorn Antelope (Yellowstone NP)

Larch Valley (Banff NP)

Wenkchemna Peaks (Banff NP)

Eiffel Peak (Banff NP)

Sentinel Pass / Paradise Valley (Banff NP)

Green Moutain (Kananaskis) ...view from

So once again... difficult to make the final cut. I might post some of the fall-down in up coming posts after Christmas and after I do a few other things... like eat turkey and cleanup my office...

Merry Christmas everyone!

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2006 "Best Of"

In preparation for 2007 “Best Of” … a resurrection of sorts of the 2006 selections.

Aspens in the Sheep River Valley
Galtea Lakes
Junction Creek swimming hole
Junction Creek falls
View from Skoki Mountain
Fossil Mountain
Merlin Lake

Merlin Meadows Baker Lake

Ptarmigan

Natalko Lake

Rockbound Lake

Iceline trail

Twin Falls Mnt Allan spiresMnt Allan spires

Emerald Pools

Zion maples

West Rim trail

Angels Landing

Observation Point

Virgin River Valley

Zion Narrows

Orderville Canyon

Kolob Canyon

Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Bryce Canyon

Narrowing these compilations down is harder than it looks... but it's nice to look back over a year hence and remember all those stumbles.

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