Photo location: Mistaya Oxbow in Banff National Park, Canada

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Used a 25 sec long exposure to smooth out the water.

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There is no secret that we absolutely love the badlands here at Action Photo Tours! Characterized by eroded canyons, towering spires, and colorful layers, these landscapes are unique blend of rugged beauty and desolation. Each year, we offer several adventures to the Utah, Bisti, and South Dakota badlands to photograph their captivating allure.

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One of those deeply satisfying sunrises in Yosemite valley.

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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride psychiatric hospital that was operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. Weston State Hospital got its name in 1913 which was used while patients occupied it, but was changed back to its originally commissioned, unused name, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.

The hospital was authorized by the Virginia General Assembly in the early 1850s as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Following consultations with Thomas Story Kirkbride, then-superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, a building in the Kirkbride Plan was designed in the Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles by Richard Snowden Andrews (1830–1903), an architect from Baltimore whose other commissions included the Maryland Governor's residence in Annapolis and the south wing of the U.S. Treasury building in Washington.

I was on a trip in Werst Virginia, driving from New River Gorge to Davis West Virginia, I could not pass a stop when we drove right by Weston WV, The Empress and I spent a lot of time snooping around TALA hunting for ghosts and taking pictures.

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