Posted by Anne (White Rock, Canada) on 20 February 2008 in Architecture and Portfolio.
This magnificent hotel set close to the Bow River has been home to visiting royalty and dignitaries from all over the world. It was built by Canadian Pacific Railways as were other 5 star hotels in Canada. It also boasts a fine golf course which many people find more difficult to play at this altitude. It now belongs to the Fairmont chain of hotels.
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nice framing and tones. i posted a series up from my photos i took when i went there last october. it is truly beautiful, pictures can't do it justice.
20 Feb 2008 2:22pm
Ah, the icon of the Rockies!! Gorgeous shot of it Anne!! Even the blown out highlights from the scan work for this soooo well. It looks like some of those archival shots you see all over the town. Absolutely wonderful!!
20 Feb 2008 3:24pm
@amy: Hi Amy! Thank you! The original of this had blown out highlights too and hoped to correct them in Photoshop or something. Couldn't take them down any more because it made the whole thing too flat! It is almost archival as well! Taken many moons ago with a heavy, square format Bronica - the negatives were 6 x 6 cm. Just wish I was young enough to carry all the heavy stuff I used to lug about and hike around in these hills. I'm sure I have many, many more than I am showing here, but on transparency film (Are you old enough to remember when everybody loved a good slide show?) Sad to say, they are all mixed up in a box in my storage room since my daughter borrowed my projector and tipped the slides out of the carousels so she could borrow those too! I am just hoping they are not scratched to death when I can eventually unearth them!!! ;-)
Ah, thanks Anne for thinking I wouldn't know about slides... sigh, but alas I do. Everyone sitting around for the slide show!! LOL Oh, and movie nights of those old, what were they? 8mm? Just wanted to let you know that I am sooo enjoying your efforts of scanning these wonderful images!
20 Feb 2008 4:38pm
@amy: Thanks Amy! Its removing the bloody spots that's getting to me now! I pulled another one down I had pre-posted for tomorrow - it was full of them compared to what it looked like in photoshop or in Windows Photo Viewer! It's weird - because I am looking at them on the same monitor at the same size and resolution. I just need stronger glasses, I guess! Just looked at this one of Banff Springs again, and maybe if I had cropped out the sky altogether and just left the hotel framed against the mountain side, then I could have added more contrast to give it some punch. Tried it as it is and it just made the sky have too many weird artifacts!
Wonderfully magnificent scene well captured, imho.
20 Feb 2008 7:31pm
Thank you Rebecca! I do hope you are feeling better and thank you for taking the time to visit! I realize it is hard for you in your present circumstances to get around posting - so it was really appreciated! I am having a bit of a problem myself, getting around everyone I used to - old age I think! I just get wiped out after editing photographs and trying to get around a few blogs. A couple of years ago I was looking after my own web site (which I destroyed and started another which really isn't up to anything yet) getting around a lot of people on the blog and getting out and taking a lot of photos, as well as teaching seniors basic computer skills. Now! I am hardly doing any of it, but have tried to make the effort this last few days by preposting some scanned images. Anyway, after blood tests and x-rays, I am going for a full medical this evening! Maybe that will shed some light on why I am exhausted so easily. It shouldn't be so much different with age in the space of two years, and my social life is awful because of it. When I keep in touch with my dearest friend and we visit one another, then I am just too weary to blog. So keep your chin up - you won't always be pregnant and should return to normal, emorionally and physically - although looking after a family is always hard work for us women. i sometimes wonder how I managed it at all with four children, a full time job, and everything else to do. I seemed to have much more energy and stamina then, and often worked into the small hours. The trouble is such a chronic fatigue makes one very depressed when one can't do the things one wants to! I was diagnosed with depression a while ago, even though I didn't think I was depressed - and thankfully, there are prescription drugs which are very effective for this type of thing for a while. However, I guess in view of your pregnancy, this is not an option for you. I would advise you not to make such long posts about your condition - you are not obligated to anybody in any way on the blog. It is nice to get around and reciprocate the nice comments if one can. For the most part - I have always found most people here to be very nice and sincere - only a couple of guys who could be mean and post veiled insults. After reading your latest post I am sad that you have come across that kind of thing. Just post photos when you are able - visit if you can - if not nobody will be upset, and yes that family blog means a lot to you because of all the people you know personally and care about who come to visit. If you haven't been able to update that then I would say that your family that you love deserve your first allegiance. Several nice people here on am3 have had to give up periodically for a rest because of illness, fatigue or other problems and none of us who visited them regularly in the past thinks any less of them for something beyond their control! See your doctor about this as well as about the pregnancy and let him/her know how you feel!!! There may be some other kind of help available besides drugs to cheer you up. You said you were happy - but a heartfelt post like the one you made today - sounds as though you could use a little help and advice from your health care professional. I am posting this in the reply section because you simply are making very long posts on your blog about your condition - and may give rise to comment from the people that you feel are not sincere! But keep faith most of the guys on here are very nice - you are always going to get a small few that aren't in every crowd!
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20 Feb 2008 8:37pm
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