Pitt Polder, a photo from British Columbia, Western

Photographer's Note

Draining via the Pitt River into the Fraser River, Pitt Lake is the second largest frershwater tidal lake in the world. Immediately south of the lake lies Pitt Polder, the southern portion of which consists of rich farmland drained by industrious Dutch immigrants in the 1950's and dyked.

The northern portion of the Polder comprises some 1459 hectares of dyked marsh and wetlands. The provincial government administers this area jointly with Ducks Unlimited Canada, and it is one of the premier wetland habitats in Western Canada.

The habitat was created as a result of sediments forming over the centuries from the vast Fraser River system which are carried upstream by the tidal actions of the inflowing Pitt River. An enormous variety of both resident and migrating bird populations are to be found here.

singuanti, cam, weswang, thohau, elihesamian has marked this note useful

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singuanti (15250) 2005-04-24 12:01

Hi John. I really like the composition and reflections. The colors are great as well. I hope you find my workshop useful. This is a beautiful landscape shot.

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cessy (13647) 2005-04-24 12:11

woww.. what a fabulous landscape
very nice shot, John. the composition and the reflection is marvelous

Graal (103040) 2005-04-24 14:10

Beautiful place and nice picture. Strong colours, good composition and nice reflections. I like it.
Regards,
Aleksander

Fis2 (170717) 2005-04-24 14:28

Hi John!
Good photo.I like the colours, composition and sharpness. Very impressive picture!
Regards
Krzysztof

alvaraalto (42804) 2005-04-24 19:39

Hi John,
Dykes, wetlands, polders. Of course there has to be some Dutchman in the area. Beautiful picture to show us this erea.
groet Rob

cam (9043) 2005-04-24 22:05

Hello John.
Beautiful scenery,clear and well composed.I like the reflexion.
Charles

Cormac (26565) 2005-04-24 22:34

Nice shot - I really like the reflections and the saturated color. The composition is very classic, almost layered. I also found the note very useful - I live in the Vancouver area and I never knew most of that stuff. Thanks for sharing.

thohau (919) 2005-04-25 2:45

Hi John!
Nice composition and POV. This is really a gorgeous landscape. The reflections on the calm watersurface is nice, too.
Cheers, Thorsten

weswang (18247) 2005-04-25 3:26

Hi John, what a beautiful picture. I like the grass in front of the picture, which well framed the photo. The reflections in the water made this photo very attractive. The color contrast in this picture is excellent. We can see all the layers presented in the picture with different colors clearly. Well done.

elihesamian (26149) 2005-04-25 8:18

A beautiful place and view you show us with a fine composition for natural layers which has a nice reflection,too.
indeed beautiful,very peaceful and appealing,too.
nicely done,great sharpness and quality and I like it,John!

Regards
M

toni_al (15875) 2005-04-25 8:47

Hi John
Joli panorama les couleurs sont belles et j'aime le reflet sur l'eau.
Well done
Toni

mumek (20226) 2005-04-26 21:25

Very lovely wiew at the lake and majestic mountains. great reflections in the water, good natural colors. Very well done. Thanks for posting.The note is very informative.
ziggy

PJE (20758) 2005-05-02 1:19

John this is really nice. The setting is beautiful. So calm and serene too. A question for you though. How long does it take to get to this lake from Chilliwack. I checked on a map and saw that its off highway 7, Do you have any ideas?

aros (0) 2005-06-17 17:22