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The Big Bend Along the Icefields Parkway (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Big Bend overlook with a view looking southeast in Banff National Park. I have been to this point several times on my trips to Alberta and truly love the way the mountains rise up on both sides of the highway! So my thought on composing this image was to take advantage of those mountainsides and angle my Nikon SLR camera to bring out a sweeping view, looking down this valley. I pulled back on the focal length so that it would bring out more of a wider-angle and panoramic feel to fill up the image and setting.

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Itineraries in Exploring Jasper National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at an overlook with Medicine Lake and a view looking to the southeast. This is in Jasper National Park. My thought on composing this image was to zoom in with the focal length and align myself to create a layered look with the nearby shoreline, to the blue waters of the lake, and then to more distant ridges and peaks. I also wanted to bring out a look with the mountainsides with that almost sideways. Nearby was the mountainside of the Medicine Lake Slabs and it's almost vertical rise. One could then a more distant set of ridges and peaks with the Queen Elizabeth Range.

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A Distant View of Mountains from a Medicine Lake Lookout (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at an overlook with Medicine Lake and a view looking to the southeast to more distant peaks and ridges of the Western Queen Elizabeth Ranges. This is in Jasper National Park.

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Taking in the Beauty of Plant-Life in Voyageurs National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking and hiking along the Blind Ash Bay Trail in Voyageurs National Park, I can across the setting with a small field of fern plants and backdrop of pines and evergreens. In composing this image, I got down low and used the LiveView LCD screen on my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera to capture a look just above the fern plants with a view extending to the trees as a backdrop. I opened up the aperture as I wanted to have the fern plants as the focus and everything beyond slightly blurred.

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It is Time For a Meeting in the Mountains (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Big Bend viewpoint along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. The view is looking to the southeast with the mountainside of Cirrus Mountain towering over the road below. So that's what I focused on in capturing the same age. I closed down on the aperture, so that I could have more of the entire image in focus and bring out all those details when looked at up close.

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Seemingly Alone on the Waters of Lady Bird Lake by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image while heading out to enjoy a morning walk along the Hike-and-Bike Trail around part of Lady Bird Lake. This view is on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge with a setting extending to the southeast. Notable features in the image include the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge, the Sail building, and the currently under construction and tallest building in Austin, with a skycrane present. But what drew me into the setting was the lone person rowing at the time that morning. I wanted to put a focus on that person and worked to have that in the more open portion of the lake waters.

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I’m climbing a mountain (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I’m climbing a mountain I stop just to gaze at the view A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views down a mountain valley at the Big Bend overlook in Banff National Park. This is along the Icefields Parkway with Cirrus Mountain on the eastern side of the image (left) and a ridge coming off the Columbia Icefields (right). The caption used is from a poem. I’m Climbing a Mountain by Andrew Blakemore

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Medicine Lake with a Mountain Backdrop (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views at the Medicine Lake Lookout in Jasper National Park. My thought on composing this image was to pull back on the focal length and capture a leveled-on view, balancing the lake and shoreline (and some foreground interest) with that of the more distant ridges and peaks and skies above.