I stood looking at the wondrous scene before me. It is in these times I find myself with a quiet reflective mind and soul – and just stand , look and let it roll through my mind and heart! How can one come to really fathom the complexity, the synchronicity, the delicate and the rough – all so balanced and so very beautiful. That is the effect of the Rockies on me.
Assiniboine Massif © Ron Hallam – Gita Photos
I returned home after a hiking trip and stopped at my favourite Coffee shop for a tea . The staff in there are a great and wonderfully eclectic mix – both national and international – of wanderers, musicians, students and characters. In short – a vibrant, easy going, exciting crew exploring what life is like here and all around the globe. It wasn’t busy, so one of the staff and I got visiting over the counter. She knows I am a photographer and had been out doing just that. As I relate where I’ve been and what I saw, she offered a most profound and unanswerable question: “why is I get to live in such a place and enjoy this while others are lucky to eat for the day?”
Mt. Lefory and Plain of Six Glaciers © Ron Hallam – Gita Photos
Well, we visited and talked this over – is there an answer? But in the question by this lovely lady lies a hint of what it means to be human. To realize the blessings around us, yet ( I am sure in her travels) having seen not all are so fortunate, nor is life so grand for many others and question: Why is that? What are “they” feeling? And how can one be a human and not feel the incongruity in this? I don’t have a definitive reply , but I do have an answer for myself.
Magic Morning at Moose Meadows © Ron Hallam – Gita Photos
On that note, my special Gallery called the Cause Gallery, is dedicated to working with Cause Canada, a N.G.O. ( non-government organization) based in Canmore, Alberta, focuses on overseas funding assistance and charity relief work in West Africa and Central America (Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Guatemala and Honduras). Much like the anecdote of the man walking the shore strewn with thousands of stranded starfish – he picked one up threw it back in to the sea and was asked – “with so many here how can that make a difference? It makes a difference to that one !” – came the reply.
So the answer, for me, is to do what I can , where I am, with what I have, to help put balance into the human experience. Please your eye. warm your emotions and visit the Cause Gallery. Perhaps you’d like to give it a try?
Photo Credits
All Photographs Are © Ron Hallam
Ron Hallam – Gita Photos – Bio
I live in Banff,Alberta Canada – a National Park, World Heritage Site and fortunately my home! And what an opportunity this affords one. My creative outlet being Landscape Photography , makes Banff a veritable , never ending source of subject matter. Thank you for browsing my website, and, I hope you will find some images that “catch your eye” and “grab your emotions”.
Being in the midst of this place I get to go out and capture the incredible mixture of light and natural environment subject matter this place provides. I readily admit I am spoiled, with Banff National Park as my back yard, I just leave my house and walk, ski or ride into this wilderness in barely minutes! The wonders of this place, from a simple day’s walk to extended trips, provide a Landscape Photographer a never ending, always intriguing and deeply engaging array of subject matter, light , mood and moments to create , then express and hopefully engage the viewer with that moment captured “from an infinity of other possible sights”. ( John Berger, Art Critic and Poet)
“When we make a photograph, be it a Landscape, Portrait, or a photograph of a sport, in a sense we are opening a window onto a small section of the world.” ( Tony Bridge-Photographer and writer) I hope to take you on a walk around the Park visually , and, it is my hope that you’ll be moved to say – “I’d like to go see that someday”. Delight yourself with having some of the photos presented here on your wall – until someday arrives! By the way Gita is an acronym – God is The Artist!
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