Water: essential for life. And also for this month's photo blogging challenge. But how to photograph? Read on...

Water: essential for life. And also for this month's photo blogging challenge. But how to photograph? Read on...
Water! Here in Calgary, we open the nearest tap for instant access to unlimited, safe drinking water at a cost of roughly half a cent per litre. Inexpensive, ready access to clean water is easy to take for granted. And that's reflected in my photos - water as an abundant, natural element. Part of what makes water amazing is that we can observe it all three states - gas, liquid, solid - within the temperature range that humans can tolerate. The fact that October is the month for the water theme means the timing is just right to photograph water in all of those natural states.
I have a short stack of Rocky Mountain Books' manifestos sitting on my bedside table. The first three books I read in the manifesto series were on topics of great interest to me: beavers, bees and gardening. Becoming Water - Glaciers in a Warming World, is one of several titles the kind folks at RMB …