Prior to my first trip to Alberta in 2009, I had a pretty specific picture in my head of how I expected the prairie provinces to look. Though I arrived at that time to a glorious city, snowy Rocky Mountains, and glacier-carved canyons full of hoodoos and dinosaur remnants, that original concept of Alberta has also stayed in my mind. As it turns out, that image also exists both in the east and in the south of the province.
Oil drilling apparatus, known as derricks, litter the skyline in the most seemingly random of places.
Grain refineries that break the vastness of the landscape dot the highways and lesser-travelled roads alike.
Silos... and if you get close enough to the US border, the mountains of Montana for a background.
These next three were drive-by's: literally shot from the highway in a moving vehicle. The black and whites are absolutely perfect.
Someone's little utopia on the prairies got flooded out with the spring melt, but it made it all the more photogenic to me.
And of course, there are miles and miles and miles where Alberta best lives up to it's image of dirt roads, farmers' fields, and Great. Big. Sky.
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