About This Web Site

This is a personal web site, a flight of fancy about the avocations that I enjoy which include wilderness hiking, nature photography and haiku-genre poetry which includes haiku, haibun and haiga.

Computer technology and the Internet combine to make a forum for ordinary folks like me and you to make contact and to express their creative impulse.

Throughout the various web pages on this site, there is a conservation theme. I have a strong concern about the disappearance of species on our Planet, about the contamination of air, land and water and about the failure of my own governments, those of Edmonton, of Alberta, and of Canada to take the strong and necessary steps to prevent further erosion of our special places and the species that require those spaces for their continued existence. Thus, I have provided images of some of the beautiful places that I have been priviliged to roam as a way of saying, "Let's protect these places and add some more like them before its too late."

~ Ray Rasmussen

Photography Galleries

Landscape, Nature & Stock Photography featuring National, State & Provincial Parks including Arches, Canyonlands, Natural Bridges, Paria, Jasper, Banff, Willmore Wilderness Park, Anasazi rock art & ruins, Images of the Southwest, Images of Alberta.

Haiku Poetry Pages

Contemporary English language forms of haiku style writing derived from the Japanese haiku tradition including: Haiku, Haibun & Haiga.