Showcase your province's varied landscapes
Canadian provinces in general all cover pretty large areas, allowing for vastly different scenery in a single province. Please keep it short n' sweet and limit yourself to one photo from each:
- Landscape (one for each landscape) - Urban - Suburban - Smalltown - Industry - Building Interior Alberta Alpine Forest (from Wikipedia) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lake-banff.jpg Alpine Tundra (from geocaching.com) http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/...08f8a95d7b.jpg Foothills Parkland (from Colynn on Flickr) http://calgary.skiponover.com/images...foothills1.jpg Montane (from Mark Schretlen) http://i.pbase.com/g3/92/224292/2/87728410.PHkWOiWY.jpg Central Parkland (from dpirot on webshots) http://inlinethumb42.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg Prairie: Cultivated (from encounters.jp) http://www.encounters.jp/mike/images...ies/plains.jpg Prairie: Sage (from Krissy Bush on Flikr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/...24d9e27bef.jpg Prairie : Fescue (from inmagine.com) http://images.inmagine.com/img/radiu.../rds014016.jpg Badlands (from sevennaturalwonders.com) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/...c3b32d4418.jpg Boreal Forest (from artour_a on flikr) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/...5bb17d1996.jpg Icefields (from D Robb) http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1534837_n.jpg Lesser Slave Lake (from yagotta.ca) http://www.yagotta.ca/images/slavelake.jpg Urban - Stevens Avenue, Calgary(from canadaphotos.com) http://www.canada-photos.com/data/me...avenue_285.jpg Suburban - Calgary(from wordpress.com) http://urbancsa.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/calgary.jpg Industry - Oil Sands(from heatingoil.com) http://www.heatingoil.com/wp-content...-sands-615.jpg Small Town - Longview (from CatCalls on Flikr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3420/...89d59df579.jpg Interior - West Edmonton Mall (from ualberta.ca) http://apps.business.ualberta.ca/Pho...dWaterpark.jpg |
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too much work, but just picture heaven on earth, and you got BC :jester:
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Good idea for a thread. Just too busy to post. Anyhow, I still consider Quebec my home province, even after being in Ontario for 5 years.
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This website shows a number of particularly interesting air photos on google maps, quite a few from Canada.
Boreal Forest of Northern Ontario: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/4...e4906b056b.jpg Carolinian Forest of Southern Ontario - the forest in Pinery Provincial Park is one of the few remaining stands of Carolinian Forest in Ontario: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3646/...4e9dc70a22.jpg Niagara Escarpment in Southern Ontario: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1345/...c2e33c00f4.jpg Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/...e1d83697_o.jpg |
Québec
Cap-Éternité - Parc marin du Saguenay–Saint-Laurent http://www.sepaq.com/resources/image...p_eternite.jpg Jacques-Cartier Quebec national park http://www.proticblog.net/an2005/gal...ures%20007.jpg |
Saskatchewan: Not entirely flat?
Castle Butte in the Big Muddy Badlands of Southern Saskatchewan http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3505/...2c87e0ee22.jpg Looking down at the village of Lebret and Mission Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley, not far from Regina http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/...7bb309a71b.jpg While Southern Saskatchewan is largely made up of flat prairie and river valleys, the Northern part of the province is composed of boreal forest and thousands upon thousands of lakes. Lac La Ronge http://gorgeoustown.typepad.com/phot.../dsc035881.jpg |
MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA:
Halifax area: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/halifax/images/harbour-4-l.jpg Source North(umberland) Shore: http://images.marinas.com/med_res_id/104424 Source Cobequid Mountains: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/18755834.jpg Source Cape Split (Blomidon P.P): http://museum.gov.ns.ca/imagesns/bin...0-DEV01514.jpg Source Parrsboro: http://www.parrsboro.com/25221235-Aerial.jpg Source Annapolis Valley (my new home is in this photo): http://gregghewitt.com/images/lawrencetown_lg.jpg Source |
^Cape Split is so cool. I hadn't seen that before.
Just click the link. Last summer's photothread of Newfoundland. Saltwater Joys All images by me, except the youtube video stuff. |
Saskatchewan. Great sand hills in Southwest SK(These dunes reach up to 25 meters in height), and Athabasca sand dunes(There are 10 plants that grow in Athabasca and nowhere else in the world) in Northwest SK located more than 7 hours apart.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/...146f3afd42.jpg courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/pageworld/ http://www3.telus.net/public/enickle...oeing_2008.jpg courtesy of http://www3.telus.net/public/enickle/ Cypress Hills. Higher elevation than Banff Alberta. http://www.canada.com/travel/Sample+...n?size=620x400 courtesy of Canada.com |
all pics from flickr
Kamloops/Interior BC http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3508/...317527b5_b.jpg flickr dyoshida Osoyoos/Interior BC http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/...b58fdec9_o.jpg flickr ddkkpp Nelson/Interior BC http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/24...20cec2b3_b.jpg flickr joneboi Dawson Creek/Interior BC http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3139/...9bbf8f63_b.jpg flickr poecile05 Peace Country/Interior BC http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/...c8cdab8369.jpg flickr poecile05 Terrace/Interior BC http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1057/...276cf1b3_o.jpg flickr wild_media Parksville/Island BC http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/...8c6cb462_b.jpg flickr marckelleycan Galiano Island/Island BC http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/...209b362b_b.jpg flickr Don Randall. Tofino/Island BC http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/...a8053bc3_b.jpg flickr gizzard001 |
I'm just posting links because the site specifically asks for written permission to reproduce, even electronically. Maybe a mod could let me know if it's okay to post pics from a source like this.
Robin Karpan showcases some of the best and rarely seen Saskatchewan landscapes. I know it sucks that it's just links but some of this might surprise you if all you can think of when you hear Saskatchewan is flat wheat and canola fields: Athabasca Sand Dunes (probably the most unique geological formation in the province; I've never heard/seen of anything like this in North America). I've heard the sand is up to 300m deep in some places. And here's the north shore of the lake. Cypress Hills in the Southwest Saskatchewan has Waterfalls? Lake Diefenbaker; the natural sandcastles are particularly cool Grasslands National Park |
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I love the Arrow Lakes, and the area my dad lives in East of Vernon, but I don't find the landscape the least bit interesting. For some reason whenever I mention this people from the area scoff and figure I just have some sort of Albertan inferiority complex. They can't fathom anybody preferring the terrain one can find in the foothills (personally, my favourite is the drive south of Longview, AB where the prairies seem to end abruptly and the Rockies come out of nowhere). The Whaleback Region is probably my favourite in Alberta, and IMO one of the most picturesque places I've been. |
Apparently Edmonton is only notable for WEM?
Here's my Edmonton EDMONTON Urban Suburban (both me) Just to extend from the original posters alberta list. |
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^great set Calmar... but whats with the open pit mine??
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Different strokes for different folks I guess! :tup: |
I guess so. My thoughts are "finally, something other than trees".
Not that I dislike trees, the old growth forests on the Island are spectacular. Another area I find quite stunning is around Hope. It's got the endless tree thing going on, but is also incredibly rugged when compared with most of the province. |
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