Winter beauty

 January in Alberta  Winter on the prairies has it’s own beauty.  Sometimes the sky and the snow seem the same colour and where they meet undistinguishable.  It is not that white washes away any detail – far from it.  It is though every texture is highlighted by it. Once upon a time the…

The Middle East heats up

We are watching the news – the twitters of BreakingNews, CNN, CBC, CTV, Rueters, AP, BBC and so on.  The stories, the photos the video – all streaming to us despite the fact that the Egyptian government has shut down the internet behind their borders.  I saw a tweet this afternoon.  It read: “If your government…

We made it to Lake Louise

The snow stopped and we made it to Lake Louise…along the way we saw our fair share of tractor trailers in the ditch.  I took lots of photos but for some reason I didn’t get ONE photo of a truck buried in the snow.  What was I thinking?  I did however get some good shots…