This photo was carefully framed to look as though it's in the wilderness. Be not deceived. This one, though beautiful, is close to the highway and choked with tourists. They were stacked 4 and 5 deep with cameras at the best viewpoints, gently pushing the laggards out of the way to get their turns. In fact, I had to take two frames to get this one. The first one had the ear and cap of one who was slow to get out of the way , so I courteously threw him out of the way, into the falls, and quickly snapped this before his wife noticed. "Well, thank you!" she said. "I've been thinking for years of doing that myself," and off she went in their camper after putting a for sale sign in the window.
31 August 2002 Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 800 35mm, Canon z90w
Copyright © 2002 Daniel L. Johnson
Athabasca Falls, different viewpoint, different film, different camera.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/125 sec
Copyright © 2002 Daniel L. Johnson
Why do the tourists throng to look upstream, but so few look downstream? In case you missed it when you were there, here's the Athabasca Falls outrace.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/60 sec
Copyright © 2002 Daniel L. Johnson
Few tourists look downstream; even fewer look at the beautiful woods that surrounds the canyon at Athabasca Falls.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f5.6 1/45 sec
Copyright © 2002 Daniel L. Johnson
The rock walls of the canyon below Athabasca Falls don't look so much carved by water as simply split apart.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/60 sec
Copyright © 2002 Daniel L. Johnson
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This photo was carefully framed to look as though it's in the wilderness. Be not deceived. This one, though beautiful, is close to the highway and choked with tourists. They were stacked 4 and 5 deep with cameras at the best viewpoints, gently pushing the laggards out of the way to get their turns. In fact, I had to take two frames to get this one. The first one had the ear and cap of one who was slow to get out of the way , so I courteously threw him out of the way, into the falls, and quickly snapped this before his wife noticed. "Well, thank you!" she said. "I've been thinking for years of doing that myself," and off she went in their camper after putting a for sale sign in the window.
