An Environmental Portrait

The Hope Slide. I remember this day, the day it happened. It was so long ago it's almost like a dream. The details are fuzzy of course but I recall trying to picture the scene in my mind. My imagination was just not big enough. I saw some photo's in the years after and even they couldn't do it justice. It isn't until you are there you can see just how huge It is. It's a pretty epic scene. I took the normal photo's looking up the mountain and they were okay. Jenn and I went walking out amongst the rocks which isn't highly recommended as it is somewhat treacherous. I was leaning against a rock at one point and realized it was bigger than my van. I looked around me and there were rocks strewn about all around me that size and bigger. I asked Jenn to go sit on this particular rock for a photo. Although you can't see that the rock field is 85 metres deep, 3 kilometres wide and crosses the entire valley I think this photo gives an impression of the scope of what happened here. Every once in a while I would stop and try to imagine the noise this must have made. My imagination still isn't big enough I don't think.

This image is cropped some, colour balanced, sharpened. I don't have the exposure recorded.