Fall in Fish Creek

A beautiful, sunny and bright, Fall day in Calgary. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to walk through beautiful Fish Creek!

Winn in Fish Creek

Winn and I went out for a walk along the Fish Creek pathway near our home. The area around Fish Creek was devastated by the 2005 flood - not the 2013 flood, but the one in 2005. In 2013, the water in Fish Creek was high, but because it is not fed by waters in the Bow or Elbow rivers, it did not see huge water volumes.

However, in 2005, the two weeks of constant rain caused the entire area of Fish Creek Provincial Park to flood and receive incredible damage from erosion. The effects are still to be seen and while we were walking and I was taking photos, we came across work crews still shoring up the banks and putting in erosion protection.

I took a photo of some of their equipment:

Jaws

Further on upstream towards Shawnee Slopes, there were some gorgeous compositions with the winding creek.

Fish Creek

Looking back from upstream, I caught this lovely view of the Fish Creek Footbridge. I enhanced this image using some filters to give it a painterly effect.

Fish Creek Foot Bridge

One of the other beautiful things in the Sunday morning sunshine, was the effect of the sunlight pouring through our kitchen window and spreading out through the crystal prism hanging there, creating an interesting effect on our bannister.

Prism