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Photo Gallery: Nature
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After having spent almost all of our four week holiday in Alaska and Canada,
I thought that there could be little to impress me more.
But when we drove along the Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies,
I quickly learned that I had been wrong
- it was the most beautiful landscape that I have seen until today.
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The Niagara falls are a major tourist attraction, so stands that offered to book a hotel room
were located far away from the falls (approx. 60 miles or so).
It took me a little while to actually get to the falls,
and shot this photo with last available daylight.
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With crystal clear rivers and a vegetation period of only a few weeks each summer,
this ecosystem in the Canadian Rockies seems pristine as well as fragile.
It is therefore no wonder it was declared a national heritage.
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Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada, 1992.
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Niagara falls, Canadian/U.S. border, 1997.
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Riverbed at Icefields Parkway, Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada, 1992.
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At Madeira's Cabo Girão, the world's second highest cliff (580 m),
I got away from the tourist viewpoint to get a different view.
Near the edge, I found that Opuntia cactus that clung to the slope.
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When the Alaska/ Canada holiday ended, a flight Spokane/ Chicago was part of going back to Germany.
When the plane ascended, The Rockies seemed to consist of endless ridges, one behind another.
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I thought that there was not much to see in Ullapool's harbour
- until this seal came to the surface and looked around.
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Opuntia cactus, Island of Madeira, 1995.
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Northwest U.S. Rocky Mountains (aerial view), Idaho, USA, 1992.
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Seal, Ullapool, Scotland, 1994.
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