Quest To The West

Patricia Lafferty, Bryan Shane

Description

This eBook celebrates a journey to some of the most beautiful and inspiring landscapes in the world. My wife and I left our home in Ottawa, Canada in the fall of 2012 in our small motorhome to see and to try to capture photographically some of the grandeur of the American southwest. Quest to the West is a visual and poetic record of our first expedition to this area.

We drove from Ottawa to Sault Saint Marie in northern Ontario to capture the pristine images of the rivers, lakes and granite rock formations of the Agawa Valley aboard the Algoma Railroad.

Our next stop was the long drive across the US Midwest battling gale force winds to reach Badlands National Park in South Dakota where no previous experience prepared us for the vast panorama of sharply eroded buttes and hummocks of tremendous size. The shear breadth of awesome beauty was overwhelming to one city borne and bred.

From the Bad Lands we travelled to the incredible Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. We arrived late in the season and had only 2 short days to try and capture the lakes, canyons, rivers and its famous geothermal feature, Old Faithful.

Further along our route was the magical Bryce National Park in Utah. Higher in elevation and more remote than some other national parks, the stunning views from the rim provided our first real view of a sea of red, orange and white pinnacles that line the valley floor.

Our next stop was in Moab. Utah. Here the national parks of Arches and Canyonlands wow the viewer with many incredible natural red sandstone arches and massive wind carvings.

Our final stop was the south rim of the Grand Canyon. While the other landscapes were truly incredible, the grandeur of this area, its size, colour and dazzling erosional forms make it unique.

We hope you enjoy our visual and poetic interpretation of our quest to the west as much as we did and still do.

Sujets

• Individual Photographers
• Artists' Books
• Photography

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 14 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781456623357
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 39 Mo

Extrait

uest to the West

A Photographic and Poetic Exploration of the American Southwestd Photographs: Bryan Shane ~ Poetry: Patricia Lafferty ~Design: Sholom Wargon

Copyright 2014 Bryan Shane.All rights reserved. Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com ISBN 9781456623357 No part of this book may be reproduced in any formor by any electronic or mechanical means —including information storage and retrieval systems — without permission in writing from the author.The only exception is by a reviewer,who may quote short excerpts in a review. Cover Image:Golden Glow, Grand Canyon, South Rim

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Foreword This is a journey into some of the world’s most beautiful and inspiring landscapes. In the fall of 2012, my wife Patricia and I left our Ottawa, Canada abode in a small motorhome to see and record photographically some of the grandeur of the American southwest. Quest To The West is a visual and poetic record of our first expedition to this area.Our first stop was Sault Sainte Marie in northern Ontario. A relaxing day trip aboard the Algoma Railroad gave us the opportunity to capture the pristine beauty of the rivers, lakes and granite rock formations of the Agawa Valley: the same rugged terrain, punctuated by fall colours, that inspired the Group Of Seven decades earlier.Our next stop was Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Our long drive across the US Midwest was punctuated by gale-force winds. We’d seen hoodoos before in Alberta, Canada near Drumheller, but were unprepared for the vast panorama of massive and sharply eroded buttes and hummocks. The breadth and depth of the spectacle left us speechless.From the Badlands we travelled to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. We arrived late in the season, just before the park was to close for the winter. We had only two short days to capture the lakes, canyons, rivers, and Yellowstone’s famous geothermal feature, Old Faithful.Close by, we also visited Grand Tetons National Park, bringing the major peaks of the Tetons Range and the northern sections of the Jackson Hole Valley into our crosshairs.Further along our route was Utah’s magical Bryce National Park. Its elevated rim afforded stunning views of a sea of red, orange and white pinnacles lining the valley floor. Neither the photos we’d seen of it previously nor our own preformed mental images of it did it justice.

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Our next stop was Moab, Utah. Here the national parks of Arches and Canyonlands wowed us with many incredible natural red sandstone arches and massive wind carvings. In Canyonlands, we saw the colorful desert landscape of eroded canyons from the top.Our final stop was, of course, the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It was, in a word, overwhelming. While the other landscapes were truly incredible, the grandeur of this area, its size, colour and dazzling erosional forms make it unique.We hope you enjoy our visual and poetic interpretation of our quest to the west as much as we did and still do. About Bryan Shane and Patricia Lafferty As management consultants (www.bpcgallery.com) for the past 30 years, Bryan and Patricia have worked with their clients in a highly interactive manner to develop and implement tailored solutions to improve the operational and strategic performance of their public and private organizations in the areas of business planning, performance measurement, governance, and the effective use of Information Technology.A photographer for the past two decades, Bryan has captured images all over the world ~ of people; cities; landscapes and seascapes; and animals in their natural environments. Using a 35mm digital SLR camera, Bryan spends hours in the field photographing the natural world. You can see more of his work at www.bryanshane.com. He also has prints for sale at www.fineartamerica.com and www.redbubble.ca.Editing, cover design and layout by www.sholomwargon.com.

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Table Of Contents

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Algoma Railway, Northern Ontario, Canada6Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA10Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA15Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming, USA21Bryce National Park, Utah, USA24Arches National Park, Utah, USA30Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA35Grand Canyon, South Rim, Arizona, USA41

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Algoma Railway, Northern Ontario, Canada

The Agawa Canyon is to be found approximately 144 miles northwest of Sault Sainte Marie in the sparsely populated Algoma District of northern Ontario, Canada. It consists of pristine northern lakes and rivers, awesome granite rock formations and vast mixed forests of the Canadian Shield. The images on the ensuing pages were taken on the Algoma Railway one day excursion and show the fall colours providing a bed for the immense popcorn skies.

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— Train in the Northern Woods —

All aboard the Algoma train in Sault Ste MarieAway from the city and into hills and trees,Up to the Agawa Canyon 4 hours awayWhere the fall colours upon our eyes do prey.

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