painting by AY Jackson of the Group of Seven (at the Whyte Museum)
Alberta Foothills, AY Jackson, 1937
Lawren Harris
I forgot to make note of who painted this interesting piece.
A.C. Leighton
Deer on Banff Avenue, WJ Phillips, 1947
Tunnel Mountain, WJ Phillips, 1944
Bow River, Marion Nicoll, 1934
HG Clyde
Jeffrey Spalding, Reflection, Vermillion Lake Banff, 1990
Murray McDonald, 1942
Takao Tanabe, landscape, n.d. (this is my favourite painting of his and I can't believe I got to see it 'live'!)
Takao Tanabe, On the Way to Banff, 1983
I didn't really spend much time in this exhibit, but this guy made me realise that my life is quite dull! LOL
(as I was saying...)
driving up to the Banff Gondola
parking lot at the Banff Gondola
Banff Gondola site
close up of a Gondola coming down the mountain (I was questioning my sanity by this point)
Here I am in the gondola trying to enjoy the view as I watch the ground grow smaller and smaller...
shot from the gondola on the way up
over the shoulder shot that shows the hotel a bit
not a bad shot considering it was over the shoulder and my hands were shaking!
it is unnatural to be so high above trees unless you are in an aeroplane!!!
I started off at the base of these mountains!!!
a 'WHY did I look down?!' shot
solid ground at last; I'm at the tea house