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September 13, 2011
Field Of Yellow Dryads in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Field Of Yellow Dryads

Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III, 24 TS II, 2-stop soft grad ND, 1/90 sec, f11, ISO 100

Image taken on September 12, 2011.

We had some decent clouds yesterday for the first time in more than a week so I was finally able to take some grand landscape images instead of intimate scenes. The Athabasca Valley just north of the Columbia Icefield was covered with a thick carpet of yellow dryad flowers at the seedhead stage, and that created a unique foreground for Snow Dome and some clouds in the background. (The flowers are also known as yellow mountain-avens or Drummond's mountain avens.)

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September 13, 2011, 3:15 PM
by Gordon

We saw lots of these up at the Bear and Salmon glaciers as well. Very cool! I couldn't find a background as spectacular as yours here though!

September 15, 2011, 2:14 PM
by James Hager

Thanks Gordon. Yes, it's the background that makes the shot.

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