Alaska 2024: Roll 6 - Jasper National Park
When we first started to plan our drive to Alaska and back one of the things that I tried to work into the itinerary was a bit more time to every few days. I called these "zero days" on our travel plan and tried to position them around interesting things we could do and also in places where we could do a bit of laundry.
This roll is from our first zero day, which we had in Jasper National Park. Earlier this year when I ordered the Kodak Double X that I mentioned in my post on my second roll from the Alaska 2024 trip, as well as a couple of other Kodak movie films. I liked the images that came from the Kodak Vision 3 250D rolls I shot in Paris so I decided that for Alaska I would give it a try. In total I brought along 10 rolls and this is the first.
The folks at Midwest Film Co. recommend shooting 250D at ISO 200 and that's what I did for this trip. I should also note that so far, all of the rolls I've shot on this trip are using the center filter for the 30mm lens which helps with the light falloff that is present with these extremely wide lenses.
I've mentioned that Kristy, Ripley and I had been up this way in 2019 and there were a number of places that we wanted to show Kristy's parents and see again for ourselves. First on that list was Maligne Canyon on the eastern side of the park.
Maligne Canyon is one of those places you have to see to believe. I understand that it is the deepest canyon in the Rockies and I really do believe that. The thing that is the most interesting is how narrow but deep the canyon really is.
There are several bridges across the canyon that you can hike out to for viewing. We decided to do a quick route that would allow us to see some of the highlights of the canyon but still let us get to other parts of the park.
I find vertical panoramic images challenging to present online and when I got the roll back from this day I noticed that the bulk of the images were vertical due to the canyons and waterfalls that I photographed. So here is a try at adding them to the post.
The view from the Maligne Lookout has completely changed from what I understand. Little did we know that before the end of our trip this area would suffer from a large forest fire that would leave the area severely affected.
The rest of the day we would continue to visit water features in the park. This time instead of canyons we saw waterfalls. Our first waterfall was Athabasca Falls.
There are several waterfalls on the Athabasca River that winds its way through the park. This is one of the big and easy to visit attractions on the highway that goes through Jasper National Park so there were a ton of people out and about.
It was amazing to see and feel the power of the water that was coming over this waterfall.
Not to be outdone, Sunwapta Falls is further down the road and again offered an amazing view of this powerful waterfall.
After this stop we started our way back to Hinton where we were staying that night. We had laundry to do and also to wash Ripley and Kenai as we had already been on the road for a week.
Overall I liked how this first roll of Kodak Vision 3 250D turned out. I know that the other rolls from this trip also delivered the look and feel that I was hoping for.