Location Taken: Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Time Taken: June 2010
There are some places that are really easy to take a good photograph of. The landscape is just so naturally beautiful that all you need is the right weather and bam, instant masterpiece.
Lake Louise is one of those places. A magnificent tarn (that’s a glacial lake up in the mountains, if you didn’t know), it has some of the clearest waters, and they reflect the dramatic mountains beautifully.
It’s a hot tourist spot, though, and a bus full of vacationers came in while we were visiting. It got crowded fast, so we didn’t stay long.
That’s actually the reason I’ve never been to a lot of the really famous tourist spots, like Yellowstone. Too many people. I prefer the smaller, more obscure places. They might not be quite as magnificent as the big names, but you can actually spend some time just soaking in the scenery without being interrupted by other people going by every ten seconds.
That’s why, despite this lake being the most classically beautiful I’ve ever seen, I like other lakes better. I don’t even think Lake Louise cracks my top ten, despite it occasionally making other people’s top ten lists of the best lakes in the world. Give me the more humble lakes any time.
