Charge of the Mammoth

The last couple of times I went to the badlands, I don't remember seeing the life-size dinosaur (and mammoth) statues placed throughout, Dinosaur Provincial Park. At least I think that's where they were. But modern images of the region are bereft of dinosaur statues, and I can't even find any references to these statues ever existing. Were they real? The photos still exist in my album...I went there with other kids in grade six...it happened...didn't it?

Didn't it?

The Original Jurassic Park

The Original Boy Running Down a Mountain

Paul Totman asked me to post the original photo I used to create yesterday's faux painting, so here it is. I shot this with my first camera in Grade 6. All of the photos from this trip have that same ribbon of red light at the top; I think some light must have leaked into the camera and slightly exposed the film. Or maybe it was a flaw in the lens. Either way, Mom and Dad gave me a better camera a couple of years later.

A Boy Running Down a Mountain

Sometimes it all goes very wrong. I unearthed a somewhat interesting (to me) photo of one of my Grade Six classmates running down a hill in the Badlands. He's too far away to identify. I experimented with the different layers of the photo, wondering if I could make the intersections of the three hills in the original image somehow look more three-dimensional. As you can see, I failed utterly, and instead I have something that looks like a screen capture of an early Intellivision game.

Six Years and Counting

Six years ago today, Sylvia and I were married. Here we are at our early anniversary getaway last week, visiting Dinosaur Provincial Park. Happy Anniversary, Sylvia!