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Smoky slopes

20 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, random, rural, Travel

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Banff, Banff National Park, gondola, photography, random, rocky mountains, rural, Sulphur Mountain, Travel

Banff, Alberta, Canada

The view from the Banff Gondola, descending Sulphur Mountain on Saturday.

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Hills under a haze

18 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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alberta, Banff, Banff National Park, canada, mountains, photography, random, rocky mountains, rural, smoke, Travel

Banff, Alberta, Canada

The view from my bus window earlier today, just east of the Banff National Park boundary. Smoke from wildfires in British Columbia continues to hang over our region, bathing everything in a warm glow, all day long. The image is slightly cropped but otherwise not retouched.

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Fun on Lake Louise

11 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, rural, Travel

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alberta, Banff, Banff National Park, canada, ice, lake, Lake Louise, mountain, photography, photowalk, random, rocky mountains, rural, snow, Travel, winter

Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

Fairview Mountain towers over a frozen Lake Louise in the Alberta Rockies. This photo was taken during a visit to the Ice Magic ice sculpting event, back in January 2008.

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Canadian perspective

18 Saturday Nov 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Travel

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alberta, canada, Jasper, Jasper National Park, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, rural, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail

Jasper, Alberta, Canada

Via Rail’s Canadian in Jasper National Park. The view is from one of the forward Skyline dome cars, looking back toward the back of the train. Snapped on my cross-Canada train trip back in April 2013.

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Rocky Mountain sunset

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random

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alberta, calgary, canada, Cochrane, iPhoneography, photography, random, rocky mountains, sky, sunset

Cochrane sunset

Captured on my phone from the lookout along Highway 1A in Cochrane.

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Visiting Lake Louise

09 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, photography, random, Travel

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alberta, Banff, Banff National Park, canada, lake, Lake Louise, mountains, photography, rocky mountains, Travel

Out on the dock

Here are a few snapshots from a day trip to Lake Louise earlier this week.
As lonely as my photos make the place out to be, rest assured this popular tourist attraction is as busy as you’d expect for high season.

Canoes

Lunch with a view

Storm clouds rolling in

Lakeside log

Striations

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Squeegee kings

25 Saturday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Canada, photography, trains, Travel

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alberta, canada, Jasper, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, station, tourism, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail

Squeegee kings

Via Rail won’t let dirty windows ruin a Rocky Mountain vista. Here are some employees hard at work cleaning the windows of Toronto-Vancouver train “The Canadian” during a station stop in Jasper, Alberta.

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View from the dome car

03 Friday May 2013

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, photography, random, trains, Travel

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alberta, canada, Jasper, national park, park, photography, rail, railroad, railway, rocky mountains, skyline, train, trains, Travel, Via Rail

Enjoying the view

Views such as this is why people like to hang out in the dome-observation Skyline and Park cars aboard Via Rail’s The Canadian. Got this image last month as the train made its way westward toward the town of Jasper.

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Double vision

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, photography, Travel

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british columbia, canada, mountains, photography, photos, pictures, rocky mountains, Travel

Double vision

Another oldie … this one from May 2010 while on my way to Vancouver by car.
Here, I was fooling around with my pocket camera while stopped on the highway at Golden, B.C. I was waiting my turn along a stretch of alternating one-way traffic because of road construction.

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Mountains everywhere

16 Sunday May 2010

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b.c., british columbia, canada, random, rocky mountains, rural, trans-canada highway

Got bored while stuck in traffic on Hwy. 1 near Golden, B.C., so I had some time to fool around with the camera. With some help from Mom, I found this interesting point of view as a result:

Double vision

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