Photographer based in Shaunavon, SK & Author of Forgotten Saskatchewan. Currently doing beginner & night photography classes all over western Canada.
I LOVE teaching photography to beginners and I teach in a way for the ordinary person. And I teach in a way that does not require expensive equipment nor photoshop. In fact, I rarely buy expensive equipment and hardly ever touch Photoshop myself and this has not affected book sales nor gallery showings.
What I do teach is being creative with your camera and then finding those amazing hidden gems in Canada to shoot them with those creative skills.
I also so drone photography and because of RU-vid, I began doing some film making and I love it!
Canada is a BIG country. It is going to take me years to see it all. I can’t wait!
It boggles my mind of just how many "taggers" drive out to the middle of nowhere in order to put thier "art" on these abandoned buildings. You know it is not random either because literally no one drives around with that much spray paint on hand and just suddenly decides to leave their mark. I don't know whether to be impressed with their dedication or disgusted by thier audacity?
It’s obvious you own a business in the area, scratching for tourists. Ther Qu’Appelle Valley is much nicer than this. Lush green valley with 5-6 lakes all connected by river. A glacier creation.
I took my kids on a round the USA road tour in 1992 and we took Hwy 66 from Amarillo, Texas ti San Bernardino, California. Still have my Hwy 66 neckerchief that I’ve always use as a dinner serviette ( napkin) at family dinners.
how do you consider Banff to be in southern Alberta????? Also, I'm not sure who told you there's no snakes in the drumheller badlands, but I would take that advice with a grain of salt !!!! Bull snakes have been found as far north as Trochu in the red deer river valley now, and if there's bull snakes ....... As well, did you miss Head Smashed In buffalo jump, while you were doing the crowsnest pass? Very cool and informative place to visit!!
Banff is in Southern Alberta, I used to live there. I did visit Head smashed in, I agree with you, it is a great place Sadly, the wind ruined all the audio so I figured I would go back this summer and redo it. 5th time there, I love it!
It was not the depression that killed those towns ...during and after WWII they were thriving ...I worked for the AT&SF RR all through there and they had most of their populations into the mid 80s ...but that was the beginning of the end ...for it was reaganomics that killed those small towns ...specifically trickle on economics was what put all those middle class wages and jobs in peril. Yet that is STAUNCH Conservative country and they vote for corporate wealth first and are STILL waiting for the wealth to trickle down even today over 35 years later. Somebody should have told them the USA is a "Consumer driven economy" and reaganomics is the worst case scenario for those towns and this video is proof. You missed Waynoka OK once a thriving town of 3500 before and after the war and is now down to 7-800 It has a storied history of WWII troop trains a Harvey House where Chi- LA celebrities stayed over night as that run was 48hrs ...breakneck speed back in the 20s ...even had a major airport where Lindy and Earhart landed for air shows ...and this is the SAD story of my home stomping grounds ...just SAD! See link below ...the US has gone from number one in 1945 to 164 on the world stage ...certainly one of the greatest declines in world history. Not only over the last decade but but the last 4 decades at least. ... www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-09-11/a-global-anomaly-the-us-declines-in-annual-quality-of-life-report The Social Progress Index, which considers itself "the most comprehensive measure of a country's social and environmental performance independent of economic factors," determined that out of 163 countries, only the United States, Brazil and Hungary had slid backward over the past decade. And though the declines were small, the U.S. saw the largest reduction in terms of overall score.
Thank you for the video. It makes me homesick especially for some of the less tangible things such as watching storms roll in from many kilometres away. If you ever revise this video I'd suggest adding a few things. 1) You mention that snakes are not found in certain areas. You should specify rattlesnakes as there are other species of snakes in those areas. 2) Add more about First Nations background as you can find tipi rings in many of the areas you've shown. There is something special about realizing that you are standing in a tipi ring where people camped likely pre-contact. 3) Eastend is also where Pulitzer Prize winner, Wallace Stegner lived as a child and is the area he writes about in his novel Wolf Willow. 4) You mention, almost in passing, about how you can be alone in this area but that is worth its own bullet. Even in summer you can drive some roads and maybe not pass another car for an hour. Outside of the summer season, it can be much longer. While this means people should be more prepared, more importantly it is as much a part of the attraction to SW SK as the storms, skies and stars. It also true while hiking and is really amazing for people who like to hike solo. 5) Perspective. Most people visiting SW are amazed by the vistas and the broad scope of the land. Yet in reality, many of those places are not actually that distant. The lack of trees in many areas removes any sense of perspective. 6) You show some of the great empty houses and other buildings on the ghost town roads but was surprised there was no images from Robsart which actually is a town. Not very big anymore with only a few streets but you can actually drive past abandoned houses and stores. There are still a few residents but the vast majority of the buildings are now abandoned. While these might make good additions to your video, you have still created an excellent video that I will now be showing to many other people.
We stayed in a Comfort Inn in Rowlett Tx in April and it was the most disgusting, piece of crap hotel. I'd stay in this hotel 500 times over that dump.
I was at Cypress Hills Provincial Park as a young child with my parents. Fort Walsh wasn't developed as it now is. This was back in the early 1960's. I can remember being amazed at the Spruce & Pine Trees growing there & how high the elevation was compared to Pense, Sk., on the Regina Plains.
That was a great video and you even knew some history of the places you visited. My wife and I thought oh what a shame that most of the towns on Route 66 were dying. Thank you for sharing
Curious about the settings ? Why not use a lowwer ISO with longer exposure? Or, use aperture priority and let the camera do the rest? New subscriber, Great videos!
What I notice is in many videos now common words are mispronounced.. No one pronounced the word “ southern ” as /sow-thurn/ rather than the common pronunciation I have heard all my life as /suth-urn/. I don’t know if it’s AI or some yokel for some reason thinks he is going to apply his own his own misunderstood rules of pronunciation that don’t exist. It’s called “ over regularization”. Applying what he thinks should be pronunciation of a written word based on how other words are spelled. This is happening so often now I can’t bear to listen to these yahoos who basically don’t know how to read.
I did a job in Logan, New Mexico for Union Pacific and we stayed at a motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico. There’s so much to see there! You definitely didn’t cover it all but still nice to see. Even some cool modern places like Tee Pee Curious.
