Athabaska River Photo

20 x 16

$150

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The Athabaska River, seen here, is in Jasper National Park, Canada. This remarkable view is adjacent to the Icefields Parkway but the river is hidden from sight unless you stop at a pull-out and hike up a very short trail. Many people have questioned me about the color of the water thinking that I must have enhanced it. I do edit all of my photos using Photoshop but with the objective of printing them as accurately and faithfully to the original scene as possible. There is a huge gap between what the best film or digital file can record and what the human eye can see. That is why so many people are dissapointed in their landscape photos. Making a print that is as close as possible to what I saw when I made the image is somewhat subjective, of course, but that is the objective of all of my printing efforts. The blue-turquoise color of this river is the result of glacial flow. Finely ground rock, which is suspended in the water, absorbs the "warm" colors and scatters the "cool" ones to the surface where we observe the resulting beautiful hue.

The word "adapaskaw" in Woods-Cree means "there are plants one after another," as certainly there are in this beautiful region of Alberta. The Athabaska originates at the toe of the Athabaska glacier in the Columbia icefields at an elevation of 5,249 feet. It flows 765 miles northward before merging with the Peace River where its waters flow further northward before emptying into Great Slave Lake.

My image, "Athabaska River" is featured in the form of a "Panelrama" in my art gallery.

Purchase this limited edition, signed print 20 x 16 on canvas, gallery wrapped and ready to hang for only $150.00.