On 10/5/05, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day trendsetters, <snip> > Anyway, I stitched together 2 shots I took over 10 years ago when my > Dad & I were holidaying in Canada. It's nothing special
EVERYTHING about Canada is special... <LOL> , but II > thought I'd share the results (~130k): > > http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/PESO/peso_011.htm > > Taken around the Athabasca Falls area of Jasper National Park in > Alberta. As a young bloke who had only ever seen ice from the freezer, > this spun me right out. (Truth be told, it still spins me out :-). Have you ever seen ice-climbing? These crazy guys are just like rock-climbers - you know, climbing up shear cliffs - except the do it up ~ice~! Frozen waterfalls, glaciers, stuff like that. Darwinism takes care of a couple of them each year. > > To drag this back on topic, it was on that holiday when I got my first > Pentax SLR. Very cool pic, BTW. I've never seen Canada's West, and beautiful photos like yours serve to remind me that such a trip should be on my horizon. thanks, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson

