It was in December, and this is a view along the TransCanada Highway that runs through Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. My subject is an overpass/bridge for wildlife along this Highway. Despite the overcast day setting a gloomy atmosphere, the snow-capped mountain stood out against the trees that lined the highway, providing contrast to this wintery landscape. The scene invoked that moody yet beautifully serene feeling for a cloudy wintry day in the mountains.

The Trans-Canada highway was once known as “The Meat Maker.” In the early 1980s, a simple highway expansion project widened the busy road from two lanes to four, with the added objective of cleaning up Banff’s roadkill problem by enabling animals to cross safely. There was little indication that, within decades, Canada’s oldest national park would boast the most wildlife crossing structures anywhere in the world, including 38 underpasses (tunnels) and six overpasses (bridges) as of 2014.