The Drumheller Badlands are a famous and unique feature of the Canadian landscape. They stretch from Drumheller, Alberta, east to Saskatchewan and south to the United States, a land of multi-coloured canyons and land formations sculpted by water, wind, and time – lots and lots of time!
As a child, I thought of it simply as a place where parents would take you to collect the bones of the great dinosaurs. As an adult, I still have some of those bones in my collection of important things.
Today, there is a marvellous museum in Drumheller City that presents the bones that palaeontologists present to the world in a far more wonderful way than I do--and the bones are much bigger, and they are assembled into complete replicas.
Today, as a photographer, I consider the valleys, hillocks, streams, and pathways to be the Badlands' best offerings of textures, colour variations, shapes, shadows, and endless layers and lines that invite the eye to endless journies of discovery.