Fall has came and faded from Ness Lake in a period of about 14 days. It seems impossible to tell the peak in colours until after is has passed, so you just have to continually shoot though it. I never appreciated how short this season is, and how beautiful, until moving to Canada. Australia has almost no native deciduous tress which change colour, although it does have other bursts of colour like the Wattle wildflower season. Northern British Columbia, Canada.
A bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in the twilight. The sheep roam in mixed herds of males and females in winter and segregated herds in summer. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
A crisp winter coat covers Mt Edith Cavell at 3,368 m (11,050 ft). The mountain was renamed during WWI in 1916 after Edith Cavell, an English nurse who helped 200 Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the Netherlands. A pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium, she indiscriminately assisted wounded German and Allied soldiers and became known for her statement that "patriotism is not enough". After releasing the allied soldiers she was arrested by the Germans, found guilty of treason by a court martial, and sentenced to death. Despite significant international pressure for clemency, she was executed by firing squad. The mountain was known before 1916 as La Montagne de la Grande Traversée (the Mountain of the Great Crossing) due to its location above Athabasca Pass. The north face seen here was first climbed in 1961 by a party which included Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, along with Fred Beckey and Dan Doody. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
