Alberta Landscapes

[casil403]

A few more shots from the day. Pat's farm is located in Torrington, about an hour and 1/2 north and a bit east of Calgary. Pat's hobby is Ironman Triathalons and he has spent many an hour training on these roads so when I spoke with him about a photo shoot, he was more than ready to take me out to view the scenery he sees when out on his road bike.
Pat's Mum lives in 3-Hills which is about a 20 minute drive further east from the farm. 3 Hills is name dfor exactly that reason...there are 3 prominent hills on the prairie landscape.
When viisiting his Mum, she suggested i try a shot of the local campground as it looked so lonely and empty she thought it might make a great photo. I took this for her:



On the way to visit his Mum, we stopped at 2 places...one was an old school house and family cemetary located on Kneehill. A few of the headstones are dated as far back as 1858! All the same family is buried here.




Further on the way we stopped at a local lake called Keiver Lake...I guess it's quite a popular picnic/camping spot in the summertime. Right now it's covered in ice.

[Bambi]

Holy Crap Casil, these are wonderful shots!!!

[Mad Aussie]

And just for something different ... the last one has a crooked horizon

You really have stepped up with this project Lisa. Amazing how uncertain you were yet how confident we were ... and now look at the results! A photo is worth a thousand words

[casil403]

And just for something different ... the last one has a crooked horizon

You really have stepped up with this project Lisa. Amazing how uncertain you were yet how confident we were ... and now look at the results! A photo is worth a thousand words

Funny, I use the leveling tool (the ruler and the line drawn on the horizon then the program levels it) in lightroom so I dunno what's going on.

Thanks for the kind words MA...funny I remember being so frustrated earlier in the year about this whole photography stuff. Feels kinda good to see the things I took when I first got the camera and to have it culminate in this project.
Everyone on this forum has all been so very helpful and kind with your support,advice and encouragement and I am just so happy to be here.

[casil403]

Pat took me down to show me an old car grave yard in a clump of aspen right behind and to the right where the old dodge truck was. His Mum said the vehicles were already there when they bought the farm back in 1969.
It was amazing to see all these old cars and trucks just sitting there. I think all the parts for the green one are there too as Pat started pulling fenders and other stuff out of the grass and putting them in a pile. I hope some of them are restorable someday? There was also a 50's type chevy there but it was really beat up.

I HDR'd all of these.

[Greg_Nuspel]

Wow!

More WOW here

[russ]

Corkscrew Mountain, Alberta Forestry Trunk Road.

[casil403]

A few more shots from the day:

Red barn in the coulee...



Old Carstairs Community Hall...now filled with pigeons:



Another old farm truck:



The old red schoolhouse located on Pat's farm..I love that it still has the original paint on it:



Another schoolhouse with the original windows...I thought about removing the dirt in PS but it just didn't seem right so I left it. IMO it adds to the patina of the window.

[Bambi]

gosh Casil, I am surprised that you are not studying to be a professional photographer!

Love the school house pics!

[casil403]

Gee thanks B!
OTA is enough right now thanks....

Here's another one with a bit of a story behind it:
So we're out driving and slowly heading back to the #2 to go back to Calgary and one of the final stops on the way Pat wants to show me is this Carstairs Community hall. it has a pretty neat Ukranian type spire on the top of it (I'm not quite there yet in processing....lol).
As I'm photographing this, an older man pulls up in his truck and asks what we are doing...we introduce ourselves and Pat starts up a conversation while I continue taking shots. The man is intently interested in the photography and suggests that about a mile and a bit down the crossooad there's this really neat old schoolhouse still in pretty good shape with the barn still up behind it. He explained that when he was a kid he used to go to the school and the barn was for the kids who rode to school on their horses so they could shelter them in the barn while they were at school. We followed him until he turned off to his farm and then continued on. I want to stop by his house at a later date and give him a photo I think or get Pat to do it for me. I think he would like it...
We decided to go and have a gander. It definitely was a memorable day of adventures!
Here's what I came up with: