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Red Rock Coulee
Photo:
©Mike Grandmaison

The features at Red Rock Coulee are just not what you’d expect to see after having driven a long, straight, prairie road. Seemingly emerging from nowhere, these limestone concretions look rather “alien” in appearance. One might even think you’ve arrived in Bedrock and expect Fred or Barney to greet you around the corner.

But real these rocks are. And it’s hard to resist going back just one more time as you drive by on your next trip across southern Alberta. Once again, I couldn’t pass up the occasion a few weeks ago. The irony though is that this particular image of gigantic rocks that were formed in prehistoric times was made two years ago, with a digital camera that I have since changed three times. While the concretion has barely changed in eons of time, the digital technology we embrace to make these photographs has evolved in leaps and bounds in the last few years.

With contradictions aside, this is one place worth discovering. Armed with a wide-angle lens and orienting it into a vertical position, choosing a small ƒ-stop allowed me to capture detail from foreground to background. By placing the wide-angle lens close to the lichen-coated concretion, I was able to exaggerate its size in relation to the more distant concretions, thus creating a greater sense of depth in the image. I tripped the shutter as the first rays of sunlight began to rake across the face of the concretion. This, combined with the shadowed middle ground, added a further sense of depth and created a contrast of warm and cool colours.

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