Cactus, Drumheller, AB
©2004 Duleepa Wijayawardhana
Album Notes
If you were to look at the flat (and some would say boring) landscape of the prairies, you would never imagined the rich diversity of life that exists. Well actually, maybe I should say, life that had existed. Alberta is rich in fossil finds from the T-Rex to other bizzare and wonderful creatures that existed millions and millions of years before us puny humans. Dedicated to this rich natural history is the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, and it is in my humble opinion one of the most amazing museums in the world. Certainly one of the most unique I have been in.
In May 2004, I took my close friends Corey and Donna to see the museum and the landscape of central/southern Alberta. This was my second trip to Drumheller but the first for my companions. This was also the first trip for my new digital camera the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ-10. Rarely do I touch up or alter the photos that I take, but in this case I could not resist. A couple photos I fixed some aberrations -- specifically power lines. A couple I altered the colours to give it more the feeling of what I was looking for -- similar to using filters in conventional, manual photography.
