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Breaking News: LensCulture interviews MLP’s Alex Hakonsen
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 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
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!
[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?
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 find the...
Rephotography in Amsterdam: Trams, Espresso, and Department Stores
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.
Everything seen from the top of a mountain
Victorian geography, like other sciences of the era, placed great importance on the act of collecting. Landscape, though impossible to physically retrieve, was systematically photographed and brought back to government topographers as glass plates, to be reassembled, measured, and catalogued. The photographs collected here are from William Ogilvie’s 1895-96 survey of Yukon / Alaska international boundary.
Lightning Peak
Today’s post comes from Sandra Frey, an MLP field team member for the past 2 1/2 years. Her reflections from a day re-photographing historic images high in the Canadian Rockies are an excellent reminder that mountain days are sometimes more than majestic views and bluebird skies. As Sandra tells us, the mountain environment can be a challenging place to work, live, and play.
Mountain Legacy at the Alpine Club of Canada’s 2017 General Mountaineering Camp
August 6 to 12, 2017 was something of an MLP first when a field team attended the Alpine Club of Canada’s General Mountaineering Camp. Photos – historical and modern – along with stories and maps set the scene and show some of the alpine adventures the team shared with University of Alberta students and staff, other GMC participants, ACC staff, and ACMG guides.
A reflection on the 2017 field season
The photos in Mountain Legacy Project’s online explorer tell us incredible stories about the landscapes of the Rocky Mountains and Foothills—but what about the stories behind the camera? Julie Fortin, a Master’s student with the Mountain Legacy Project, looks back on her experiences during the 2017 field season.