From Welch's Chocolate Store - Waterton

Many thanks to Welch's for access to the store one evening and to all those great afternoons on the side deck eating fresh pies and drinking great coffee after our photo expeditions. Oh, and did I mention the fudge? This is a MUST DO in Waterton.

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Kid's In A Candy Store.

Welch's Candy Store.


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During a recent trip in to Waterton National Park we discovered a true gems in Waterton village. Welsh's Candy store - a mere block from the town campground - is a wonder that needs to be explored.

A first glance it is a busy little store offering ice cream and shelves of fudge and confections to visitors from all over the world. A short tour of the shelves reveal confections imported from the British isles, Germany, Switzerland competing with fudges and chocolate produced in store for the attention of visiting for sweet tooths.



Here's a first draft of it's glory.

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Portrait of a Queen

The Edmonton river valley, with it's system of parks and trails, offers many photo opportunities. Over the last year, I have returned to the river just below the downtown to shoot the Edmonton Queen Riverboat.




Riverboats were an important part of Edmonton's history providing both passenger and cargo passage up and down the river. Today, the Edmonton Queen Riverboat provides Edmontonians and visitors a chance to relive a piece of our history with short cruise through a portion of our river valley. The 'Queen' often plays host to weddings and schools and corporate events. It isn't unusual for a Saturaday afternoon to have a wedding booked for both afternoon cruises.



In the early years of the last century, riverboats carried party goers upstream as far as Big Island for an evening of dining and dancing. The river depth doesn't permit the Edmonton Queen as far a range but they still have a evening Buffet dinner and cruise.



These photos were taken over the last year as a photo study of the riverboat. I have just completed a project with the Provincial Archive of Alberta where I worked to recreate an 1896 riverboat photo taken by the prominent Edmonton photographer Ernst Brown. That photo along with some 20 others by members of Images Alberta Camera Club will be part of an exhibit at the Provincial Archives starting October 2009.





I hope to post both the original photo and my own but I am awaiting copywrite approval from the Archives before I post the original photo.