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I had an urge to find my old negatives [sic] from western Canada, so I scanned this photo of Lake Louise last night. I guess it's the most famous lake of the Canadian Rockies, and it's beautiful with a fancy hotel at one end and a glacier at the other. This is a side view taken as we began to walk up the pathway to Mirror Lake. Lakes with this kind of colour, due to glacial flour, are not uncommon in The Rockies.

I thought I would try a fake polaroid, and I added a texture. I tried to make it look like it was at the top of a stack of photos.

Taken near Carleton Place just after Christmas

Nothing special: just a barn and house on a snowy hillock. I applied a texture, but I have no idea which, so I can't pass any credit along to the creator of the texture. Explored.

Maybe view large?

(Not that I care too very much, but just so you know, I go by Anvilcloud or AC, as opposed to Pete or Alan) :-)

Near Almonte, Ontario, The Auld Kirk was a Presbyterian Church (Church of Scotland) built in 1836 but, very surprisingly to me, has not been used much since 1864

From Wikimapia

"In 1834 the Ramsay congregation of the Established Church of Scotland elected their first session, making plans to establish a burying ground and build a church in the early hamlet of Leckie’s Corners. The stone church was completed in 1836 and still stands today admidst the largest Protesant cemetery in the area.

"When the railway came to Almonte allowing the woollen industry to flourish,the people from Leckie’s Corners moved into town and the Auld Kirk was abandoned, eventually falling into disrepair. In 1938 a restoration project saved the structure and impressive iron gates were erected facing the eighth line.

"In recent years another restoration has seen the roof replaced,the windows restored and the stone pointed so now the stately structure is open on Decoration Day in August when hundreds of people bring flowers and share memories of their loved ones.

"An Ontario Heritage plaque erected in August of 1979 states the stone church is an attractive example of an early form of Gothic Revival Architecture and that it stands as a memorial to the pioneer Presbyterian settlers who worked so hard to build it."