An Elbow Falls into a Beaver Flat

Birds, Canada, Travel

That is just a working title, we will see what transpires over the next little while.

I’m in Canmore right now with my daughter, grandson and niece. Saying goodbye is going to be hard tomorrow as I know I won’t see the first two until summer most likely. The niece is here for a while and it has been wonderful having her back in the foothills and mountains from TO. Working from home has it’s perks and HOME can be anywhere you want!

Last Thursday, before I knew I was going to lose my BC company so soon, I very happily headed out with a buddy to Elbow Falls and Beaver Flats. I wanted to try to work on my long exposures at the falls and had never been to Beaver Flats and KimE promised me some beavers. That was not to transpire but we did end up taking a gorgeous little walk through their handiwork of impressive damning and had a lovely picnic in the forest with the Elbow River shining and singing her spring rush song to us in the background.

I took a few pictures too!

Just after Bragg Creek I spotted a car pulled off on the side of the road and a familiar figure on the other side. I pulled over of course as this was not our appointed meeting spot and I knew that something had caught KimE’s eye. I had not 5 minutes before seen a Blue Jay on a fence post but did not stop as I was worried I would be late. Well no birds but she had been meaning to get this lovely pond and reflections for quite some time and today stopped knowing I would see her. Well worth the pull out and treacherous road crossing (not). The pond was like glass and the reflection was perfect!
I did get quite few pictures of the falls using long exposure. I love the creamy look of the water. I think I need to take a page out of Sean’s book and do a series this summer….
Here is another of the falls from different angle. We stayed within the prescribed area (fenced) but I think that going outside that bubble (like everyone else was doing) would have produced some much better shots.
This is one of the damns in Beaver Flats. Those little guys are hard workers. I’m guessing, because I didn’t actually count, but I would say there were around 7 of these in total!
Looking down from the damn pictured above. The look like infinity pools.
There are 2 damns in this image and 3 pools. I wish I had taken a picture of the Lodge. We waited around there for the Beaver to show his cute little face but no luck this day. KimE has seen them though in the past so we will have to make this trip again.
This is just a very impressive tree root and likely a great source of patching material for down the road for our industrious little beavers.
Just a pretty reflection of some trees that have been used to bring about their own demise. Well, if the cutting down didn’t get them then the flooding would have!
The next three are of a beautiful little Spotted Sandpiper. I could hear birds everywhere while we were here but for the life of me could not spot them – except for this guy!
I maybe needed to brighten these up a bit. They looked good on my big screen at home but a bit dark here I’m afraid.
As we were out on our walk along the mirror like ponds so was Mr. Sandpiper out on his. We were all carefully social distancing. Luckily things were a bit quiet – at least here.

4 comments

  1. Can you believe I still haven’t edited mine?? I do feel they will look very similar to yours ( at least I hope so!) except I captured no birds!!

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    1. I really think I need a lot more practice with that new lens and getting the waterfalls right. Can’t wait to see yours!

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  2. I look forward to seeing your creamy water series :). From my own experiments (more coming), I think the images work best when the point of focus are things that are static, as this provides an appealing hard soft contrast. Cheers, Sean

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    1. Definitely needs some work! I like how you focus your photos in themed series. That’s where I got the idea 🙂

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