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Here I am, with the Bow Falls in the background. The rather odd perspective is caused by the fact that I set the camera on a low rock and used the timer to take the picture. I’m not really a giant that makes even the grandest of natural wonders look small.

The Bow River valley, from just downstream of the Bow Falls.

A tree clings to the edge of Banff’s Bow Falls.

Blue mountains, yellow leaves, black branches: autumn in Banff.

Another Banff hillside, another Banff forest.

Remember all the excitement about the discovery of the skeleton of a “hobbit,” a small version of a human the discoverers believed to be an example of an entirely separate human species that had evolved in isolation on its island home? There’s some skepticism arising: an Indonesian anthropologist says the “hobbit” was really a microcephalic …

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Another gorgeous day in Banff, another gorgeous picture of another gorgeous mountain by another gorgeous photographer…er, maybe I’m getting a little carried away.

Today I walked a bit further along the river than I did earlier in the week so I could take photos of the Bow Falls; I was rewarded with this rainbow.

Here are Banff’s Bow Falls from downstream. There are two tour buses worth of people just out of frame to the left. I prefer to pretend I had the place to myself.

Yellow leaves, sunlight and shadow on another perfect autumn day in Banff.

A plague has ravaged the online world of Warcraft.

The sun paints pathways of lights on the forest floor on the hillside below the Banff Centre.