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28-SEP-2009

Glacial path, Jasper National Park, Canada, 2009

This image comprises three separate subjects – a snow capped glacier, a well-worn mountain, with a twisting road at its base. Together they express a monumental sense of grandeur, a view of nature in its most impressive scale. The road is a path in itself, while the mountain has provided a path for glacial flow for millions of years.

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Phil Douglis27-Jan-2012 19:56
Thanks, Chris -- the curved road obviously was built to follow the curves of nature, and it is nature itself that also provides an echoing form in the undulating slopes and glaciers that soar above it.
Chris Sofopoulos24-Jan-2012 21:20
The snow upon mountains together with the curves of the road create a very good composition!
Bravo Phil.
Phil Douglis25-Nov-2009 21:50
They do -- I was awestruck as I made this image. The scale incongruity and rhythmic repetition you mention underscore the grandeur of nature as well as the effect of man upon the scene.
Tim May25-Nov-2009 20:30
The curve of the line of the road and the snow line seem to reflect each other.
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