Escaping Monotony

When the plan was to post shoots of 2025, but then you realize you've still got 4 photoshoots to edit 😬🫠

So for now, enjoy some snaps from Johns Family Nature Conservancy, Angel Springs, and Athabasca Glacier

To come in 2026 from this year's adventures: Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Naramata Falls, and Spotted Lake

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We’re making a change!

This Escaping Monotony page will now be active on my professional profile instead!
Please give a follow there! Sierra Jobbitt

Would you believe me if I said photo 1 was taken with my wide-angle 16-35mm lens and not my telephoto 70-200mm?

Scroll to see the original image, a second cropped version, and another wide-angle shot

Now, would you believe me that these photos were taken in July? That's right, this summer I took a trip back home to Alberta to see family and friends, and we adventured to the Icefields Parkway and Athabasca Glacier

We took the Ice Explorer out onto the glacier (different from the blue one pictured) and got to experience the 10,000 year old ice and water up close (and also the insane winds 😂)

Did you know the glacier has receded 1.5 kms and has lost about half its volume in the span of 125 years, and loses depth at a rate of 16 ft per year currently?! Crazy and sad to see, but also a special experience. More than 1 million people travel to the parkway every year and hundreds of thousands step foot on the ice.

Who's added this to their Canadian Rockies summer bucketlist?

We’re moving!

All things Escaping Monotony will now be on my professional profile rather than this page

If you want to keep following along with photography, travel/adventure, and online business, click below! Sierra Jobbitt

Thanks everyone for the love and support, see you over there!

Sierra Jobbitt

You are literally sleeping on the biggest career and lifestyle balanced business opportunity of our generation

40 hour work week with a capped wage ➡️ passive and leveraged income from home

Trapped day in and day out at the office ➡️ working and living anywhere

Burnout and lack of greater purpose ➡️ mental freedom and fulfillment

Your life is YOURS to choose. Don’t let anyone dim your light or steal your dreams

The idea of a “dream job” is something I’ve never understood.

We’re taught to dream big but make sure those dreams fall within a career. We work a job, a j.o.b. Just Over Broke for 50+ years waiting for society’s “okay” to finally live for ourselves first.

We live our whole lives putting a job first, a boss first, a company first, an expectation first, and where does that get us? Just Over Broke in income, in health, in relationships, in experiences.

True success doesn’t come from making the most money with the “best” job. Success is when you have the freedom to be with your family, spend quality time with friends, travel the world, try different hobbies, take care of your mental and physical health, have work that fulfills you, follow your passions. And not just one of those things, but all of them!

Because life isn’t meant to be lived trapped in a box as a slave to someone else’s dreams and wealth, it’s meant to be balanced between everything that truly matters.

That’s why I’ve never stayed the traditional path, because that path isn’t built for creatives and dreamers, it’s built for robots. And you, my friend, are more than a peg in the system, you’re human 😊

So here's to more breaking cycles, capturing our world, and getting out in nature!

Just because you chose a certain path and spent time, money, and energy on it does not mean you have to stay on that path for the rest of your life.

So often I see people who thought they wanted something or thought that’s what they were supposed to do, but then realized it wasn’t actually making them that happy.

We are all influenced to one specific life path of school ➡ work ➡ retirement. Our friends and family push us to follow in their footsteps or influence our decisions based on how we grew up, but more often than not we follow this path blindly then get to the end and realize it’s not even what we wanted.

But here’s the kicker: instead of making a change and following our true passions or goals, we feel this guilt or struggle in changing course because of the time we spent preparing for this current path.

We’ve been so engrained to do life one way and one way only, that the idea of realizing we can actually be whoever we want to be, do whatever we want to, change our minds, our passions, our goals time and time and time again over the course of our lives becomes far more scary than to just settle and push through what we’ve already started.

How crazy is that??

It doesn’t matter how far down the line you’ve made it. It’s never too late to follow your heart and do what’s best for you. If you aren’t happy, it’s okay to change direction!

Because what’s the alternative? Having realized you don’t want this path anymore, but choosing to stay miserable and stuck for the next 5-10 years anyway, just because you feel it’s your duty to? I don’t think so!

The last fall appreciation before diving into Christmas!

Second year in Kelowna and second fall season enjoyed with a walk along the Angel Springs trail (though this time we took a different path)

What I love about this trail is that you don't come across many people, and you can enjoy the lower larches without having to drive up to Myra Canyon (though it's beautiful up there too, and a must-see if you've never been!)

Missing the foliage and sweater weather already!