Different viewpoints, same landscape: do land-based photos and Landsat imagery paint the same picture?

by Julie Fortin | Dec 5, 2018 | MLP News

(This blog post was first posted on the Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation journal’s website to promote the publication by Julie Fortin, Jason Fisher, Jeanine Rhemtulla and Eric Higgs. See the original post here. See the full peer-reviewed article here.)...

Placing oblique photos on the map

by Julie Fortin | Nov 20, 2018 | MLP News

By Julie Fortin and Michael Whitney   [This post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion blog]   The Mountain Legacy Project often uses the term “oblique photo” to describe the images we deal with, but what exactly does “oblique...

Thinking about Thinking Mountains 2018

by Mary Sanseverino | Nov 4, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News

From Oct 2 – 5, 2018, Mountain Legacy team members gathered in Banff Alberta with over 150 other mountain studies practitioners for the Thinking Mountains 2018 interdisciplinary research summit. It was indeed a “peak” experience!! Read more about MLP’s contribution here.

Mountain Legacy “Sparks” an interest on CBC Radio

by Mary Sanseverino | Oct 17, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News

On October 5th, 2018, Spark, CBC Radio’s weekly program exploring technology, innovation and design, went out with the Mountain Legacy Project to do some repeat photography. Full disclosure – the repeat photography session actually happened in August this past summer.

Breaking News: LensCulture interviews MLP’s Alex Hakonsen

by Mary Sanseverino | Sep 18, 2018 | MLP News

If you are looking to put some Canadian mountain inspiration into your day take a moment to look at Cat Lachowskyj’s feature interview with MLP’s Alex Hakonsen in the Sept 18, 2018 edition of LensCulture Magazine.

Field Notes: Stepping off the beaten path

by Julie Fortin | Aug 8, 2018 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

By Sonia Voicescu and Karson Sudlow   [This blog post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   The Repeat Photography Field Crew has been hard at work scaling mountains to capture repeat photographs of images taken a century ago. They’ve checked...

Landscape change in Cadomin, Alberta – 1922 to 2018

by Mary Sanseverino | Aug 2, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News, Notes from the Field

From July 23 – 26th, 2018 UVic’s Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) joined forces with Dr. Liza Piper from University of Alberta’s Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) to rephotograph images from the historic Alberta Coal Branch area. Check out some of the changes in this area where industry interfaces with wilderness.

Meet the Summer 2018 Field Crew!

by Julie Fortin | Jul 3, 2018 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

[This blog post was written by Sonya Odsen, from the Outreach and Engagement Team of Landscapes in Motion. This post is a slightly modified version of the one that appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   July already?! You know what that means! The...

What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?

by Julie Fortin | Jun 11, 2018 | MLP News

The significance of cairns for the Mountain Legacy Project’s field work [This blog post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.]   As the Mountain Legacy Project team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to...

Rephotography in Amsterdam: Trams, Espresso, and Department Stores

by Eric Higgs | May 28, 2018 | Historic photos, MLP News, Notes from the Field

Mountain Legacy Project director, Eric Higgs, finds himself involved in repeat photography project in Amsterdam, about as far physically and psychologically from the mountains of western Canada as one can get. He is spending the year working on his new book, Changing Nature, which examines the future of ecological restoration in a rapidly changing world. He and his family are based in the northern Netherlands university city of Groningen.