Beauty of Wild Alberta
Welcome back to the Adventure Blog my fellow readers. As many of you know, the world is a little bit crazy right now. When times can feel down and dark, it is important to remember to turn on the light and invite the happiness, So this week I want to talk about the Province of Alberta, Canada, where I live and some of the stories behind the photos featured in this weeks blog. I dug in the digital shoebox for these ones and re-edited them so I hope you enjoy them.
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Beautiful Alberta
Title: The Canaries
Taken: 2024
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Alberta is known for her everlasting stretch of sky, the never ending horizon. The astonishing colours from dawn to dusk and well into the night. There is truly nothing like it that I have ever seen. At least not yet in my life. Our Rocky Mountains being a sight to behold, to adore, admire, and reflect when it is just you and the wind. So take a trip with me. Let’s start in the Boreal Forest where life like Black Bears, coyotes, owls, and more thrive. The wind through the trees, rustling the leaves as nature sings her natural wind chimes. Can you hear it? Now with that sound, feel the warm summer sun in the early morning warming your skin, the soft buzz of a fly nearby, and the chirp of a Grosbeak. Summer is here and you can smell the humidity of a already warming day where the evening can bring a good thunderstorm. You know if one rolls in, that it is going to be a show worth keeping the eyes to the sky for. Not just for the outstanding light show, but if night falls, to see if anything is going to become to dangerous if the winds should pick up. But not storm comes but an beautiful sunset of pinks and purples. Over the farmers field near the campsite, the quiet chirps of nature around you. Can you feel it? The summer night that is coming, another warm night. Now take a breath, pause here, and reflect in the summer evening.
Title: Purple Summer Evening
Taken: 2018
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Now as reality starts to come back to your mind, you realize the journey has moved from the forest to the mountains of Jasper and Banff National Parks. The wind is whipping through the rocky walls, howling at you as it tries to make its voice heard. Mother nature is relentless here and she is making her presence knowing 100% It’s raining, you can feel the pelting drops across your skin as you make your way across the rocky shore of Abraham Lake. It’s winter, it’s cold, but there is no snow. It is abnormally warm for a winter. On your way here you could have sworn you saw a couple flocks of Canadian Geese still in the sky. It is early December, the 5th of December to be exact. My birthday and the way I wanted to spend the special day was out west in the mountains. The mountains were calling me back, whispering my name on the wind. Now as we arrived at the destination, we open our eyes. There she is, the Rockies, in all her glory with low lying cloud. It doesn’t get anymore peaceful than this. You take in a deep breath of air, feel the crispness enter into your lungs and you slowly let it go, enjoying every sensation, every moment. You don’t want to leave, don’t want to cut the visit short but you know you have to. You cannot stay as your home is not here, but perhaps one day it may be.
Title: Selfie At The Lake
Taken: 2019
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Title: Nothing Beats This
Taken: 2023
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Agricultural Alberta
Title: Cattle Braves The Storm
Taken: 2018
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Title: Stay Wild
Taken: 2015
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Some people call us the Texas of Canada. Perhaps it is true but I do not see it that way. Yes we have the Oil Fields, which I have never visited or even been to Fort McMurray but it is a bucket list item for me. Yes we have large ranches, huge cattle farms, and just a little bit more different speed of life. I love Alberta and I am not saying that because it is my home. The people here are amazing, friendly, loving, look out for their neighbours. The one beauty I love about the area I live is the vast prairies, the open sky, and the agriculture around me. One thing we are known for other than the oil, Oilers (and Flames), is for our love for cattle. Alberta is hands down a larger agricultural community, even in the cities. We celebrate rodeos, host agricultural events, large agricultural radio shows, and we even are home to Heartland on CBC. So this story comes from the agricultural side of Alberta and is a little inspiration for this weeks title.
Title: Sunday Ride
Taken: 2015
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
One fine Sunday morning, at least around 10AM in the morning, my dad and I were doing our routinely morning drive in the countryside by our campsite. We drove these roads for years, admiring the sunrise, taking in the quiet and the wildlife. As we were making our way back so we can join my mum for breakfast, we came across this cowboy. No not a wannabe cowboy, not at all. This feller was the real deal cowboy on horseback, rope, chaps, boots and all. Everything screamed cowboy and the image was just so peaceful that I had to make my dad stop and turn around. I got out of the truck and walked up to this horseback rider and asked if I could take his picture cause I found him captivating. This is back in 2015, mid-summer, and the cowboy was more than pleased to let me take his photo. Now ten years later, I came across this photo again, believing it was lost and the joy it gave me when I found it is beyond words. I never did get the cowboys name and I wish I did. I wish I had his contact information to send him these photos but back then it didn’t even cross my mind to ask. This cowboy is this weeks feature of the blog. A dying art, being a cowboy, and so this one I titled The Last Cowboy!
Title: The Last Cowboy
Taken in 2015
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
Alberta is not wild in the sense of the Wild West, not like that in any way even though we may dress like it when we go on trail rides, work on the ranches, or simply go on a Sunday ride. Alberta is wild in its beauty where it continues to astonish, amaze, and take everyone’s breath away. Her beauty from the sky, to the clouds, the stars, the Northern Lights stretch down to the ground to each creature, animal, bug, and blade of grass. To the particles in the dirt and below the dirt where we cannot see. Alberta is wild in her beauty and that wild will never be tamed. Stay Wild Alberta!
Title: The Eye of The Beholder
Taken: 2015
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
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Thanks for taking this journey with me today.
Title: The Trio of Buds
Taken: 2015
Photographer: Paige Brenneis - Lost For Photography
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