Posts in Category: Ricoh KR-5

2 flamingos, each on one leg.

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2 parrots, unexpired, just resting.

Even a good thing isn’t as good as nothing

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Victoria B.C. legislative building @ night, 1990 ish

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2 views of the same alley.

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our inmost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.  Joseph Campbell

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Long Ago and Far Away VIII

Long ago in a different life I spent a year as a chef de partie at the Chateau Lake Louise.  In my off time I took full advantage of being young and in good shape and with camera in hand i did a LOT of hiking.  Ill be posting the images from those hikes over the next few days.  All images taken in 1992-1993.

these are the final set of the series.  sometimes i find it hard to believe that these are 22 years gone.  at times, it feels like yesterday, sometimes it feels like it was just a long strange dream that you awake from with a longing in your heart.  at this stage of my life, with all i know i have in front of me, i doubt ill ever get back to these mountains much less be able to live there, and that, honestly, pains my heart more than  anything i have thought of for a while.  it hurts in a way that losing a parent, being fired, or divorcing ever did.  how weird is that?  i dont understand the ache it causes so for the most part i have to shut it off or it overwhelms and i just get pissy to those in my life now, and thats not fair to anyone.  i take some solace in that at least i had some time in this beautiful place, i have those memories.  i hope you enjoyed the series.

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Giant Steps.

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Long Ago and Far Away VII

Long ago in a different life I spent a year as a chef de partie at the Chateau Lake Louise.  In my off time I took full advantage of being young and in good shape and with camera in hand i did a LOT of hiking.  Ill be posting the images from those hikes over the next few days.  All images taken in 1992-1993.

More Paradise Valley and Giant Steps.

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Long Ago and Far Away VI

Long ago in a different life I spent a year as a chef de partie at the Chateau Lake Louise.  In my off time I took full advantage of being young and in good shape and with camera in hand i did a LOT of hiking.  Ill be posting the images from those hikes over the next few days.  All images taken in 1992-1993.

Paradise Valley and Giant Steps.  Yes, that’s how we did selfies back in the day… sat the camera on a ROCK we did, pulled the timer and ran into position 🙂

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Long Ago and Far Away V

Long ago in a different life I spent a year as a chef de partie at the Chateau Lake Louise.  In my off time I took full advantage of being young and in good shape and with camera in hand i did a LOT of hiking.  Ill be posting the images from those hikes over the next few days.  All images taken in 1992-1993.

Moraine Lake view.

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Castle Mountain.

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Big and little beehive’s from the trail head.

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Long Ago and Far Away IV

Long ago in a different life I spent a year as a chef de partie at the Chateau Lake Louise.  In my off time I took full advantage of being young and in good shape and with camera in hand i did a LOT of hiking.  Ill be posting the images from those hikes over the next few days.  All images taken in 1992-1993.

Looking South from on top of the Big Beehive past Lake Louise to Mt. Aberdeen and Mt. Victoria.


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Mount Fairview from the Plain of 6 trail.

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Lake Louise.

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