Saturday, July 5, 2014

Lake Louise, Victoria Glacier

Photography is a math equation of how to create joy in your life and that of others, a great learning experience, in a lifetime's walk down a long garden path.

 A child becomes a man, who's purpose is to study the world around him, and quickly learn his rightful role as subordinate to an infinitely wonderful teacher of art, math, science, ideas unknown and grand, and that accordingly, a formal respect is due.

For the man to be complete, to see God, he must become a child again, proficient at being little. These are exactly the things, for what the depths of your soul is looking through the viewfinder, I can assure you. Don't believe less. Remember as you ponder the frame, the greatest photographer of all, looks back.

Learning to see the subject takes many years, it takes sufficient tears, requires long suffering, a lifetime maybe, understanding life's hard lessons, the depths of many fields, sorrows of great loss, assumptions of difficult responsibility, hard failure's resolve, far ranging vistas outside the self, an absolute confidence in beauty and truth, a seat of your pants knowledge of the illusive golden light, the power of clouds for light reduction, and to define the vastness of the sky, count the distance perspective and provide a degree of hope that is new and mysterious.

Only one brief little picture so short, a sparkle on a distant sea. What could it say ? What should it ?

Lake Louise is fed by the melt-water of Mount Victoria's receding glacier. The blue green color of many Northern lakes is due to suspended rock dust ground by the force of gravity on rivers of ice with embedded boulders grinding down glacial paths.

In the far Northern U. S. and Canadian Rockies, during periods of drought, mountain forest fires caused by natural forces are always burning, creating a haze in the landscape. It's possible to see from one vantage point, several separate fires burning at once, mountains apart in different directions. There are no fires in this image, but the haze from them is definitely present. Everything white is clouds or glacial ice.

Canadian Rockies   Banff, Alberta Canada 

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