My goodness

Well, here comes the classic "It has been a long time, but I promise to post again" post. I just moved to a new city, London, ON. I figure I have some exploring to do, some new techniques I have read about that I want to try, and well, I promise to start posting those photos once again.

Walking Home From Carleton

Just some photos I took on the way home last night. It was cold and my hands were frozen and this was not helped by the rain and later icy snow that started falling. It was very, very dark under the bridge and getting good photos was difficult. As you can see from the brightness in the regions that are not under the bridge the photos had to be highly overexposed. I think I should have upped the ISO but I was on autopilot last night and did not think of this.

Sandy Strikes

I decided that I wanted to take a few photos down by a nearby stream tonight. However, this was a bit of a challenge. As you are probably aware a large storm is hitting the eastern US today, and while we are on the edge of this the high winds are causing problems, with gusts as high as 50-60 km/h. With my tripod bag blowing away and the tripod shaking and feeling like it might topple over I decided I had to call it a night after only a few photos. The branches should give you a good idea as to how windy it was.

Billings Bridge

It rained today and I had planned to go out and take some photos that tried to make sure of the sitting water around Billings Bridge. My memory card had a different idea however and decided to corrupt itself before I got a chance to do that. So here are a few photos I took tonight. Most of them are pretty bad, but I did get a chance to play with the saturation and contrast, which resulting in some nice changes in the colour and differences between the shadows and lit portions of the images.

This building keeps showing up in my photos

Obviously I like buses

Down Below

I went for a walk fairly far south tonight, a lot farther than normal at least. I had wanted to take some photos of the CN trainyard but I did not get a chance to investigate just how close I could get to it. Perhaps another day I will be able to do that. However, I did follow a small road that went under this bridge and really liked the location. The photos were not great, but the grittiness of the location worked well for me.

These pylons were simply impressive. I will have to come back and take more photos near them. However, the humming was a little off-putting.

Patterson Creek Etc.

I set out a bit earlier than normal this evening as I had planned to walk all of the way down to the Fleet Street Pumping House and Bronson Pulp Mill but I got distracted and my feet were hurting so I stayed a little closer to home. Today I wandered down Bank Street until I got to Patternson Creek and from there I followed this strip of parkland until I reached the Rideau Canal. In the end I did not actually take many photos and I was not very happy with them. There were a lot of nice sights and some beautiful houses that I drooled over but for various reasons I found taking photos of these features rather difficult. Anyway, here are a few of the somewhat reasonable ones.

I think this is my favourite photo of the night

I just liked this centre building a lot. It was tall, deep, but very, very thin

A trip to Hog's Back Falls

My walk tonight was a fair bit longer than I expected and sadly I was not overly happy with the photos I managed to take. There seemed to be something a little bit wrong, something I was unhappy with, in every photo. Today I wandered from Billings Bridge to Hog's Back Falls. It was actually quite a journey as the roads were under heavy construction along Heron and navigating the sidewalks was a bit of a disaster. But once I got there it was worth it. The falls are as impressive as I remembered, the force of the water is pretty amazing and wandering around in the dark nearby them was a little bit creepy and weird.

They lined up so well, I had to take a photo.

An interesting crossing. You can really feel the water flowing beneath  your feet

Damn mist 

I really liked these tunnels for some reason

The barriers are pretty high, even with my tripod fully extended I was not able to get a photograph that did not include the railing