The Stragglers

Here are the rest of the images from the Icy Waterfalls series.

Flowing Water


Starbursting Waterfall


Waterfalls, Winter, and the Sun Shining Through

Icy Portraits

Places like this are always unique, neat ways of getting a quick portrait. The image here is an exceptionally cool fluke of nature to get an icy photo frame to surround my "subjects" (my in-laws).

Into the Ice


Icy Photo Frame


Framed

The Ice Wall

These two images are an attempt to capture on of the really interesting parts of a strong waterfall in winter. The frozen result of the mist on the rocky walls.

Icy Wall


Icicles

Les Chutes Deux

Todays post was GOING to be just the first image. The point was going to be how much moving only slightly in on a landscape shot can change the dynamics. I couldn't bring myself to only post this one though since it was way too similar to yesterdays image. So ... instead you get a couple of more images at the same time! Instead, I decided to take the same concept and extend it even further. An interesting perspective to take on waterfalls is to get in close and isolate the moving parts of the waterfalls. Not all landscapes need to be was wide as you can get.

Chutes


Flowing Water


Icy Descent

Chutes a Patoche

You getting tired of waterfall pictures yet? What about icy waterfalls? Yes? Too bad ... the next few posts are of icy waterfalls again, this time up near the cottage. This was my first trip up to these falls during the winter (I had only been up there once before during the summer ...) Our intention was to take the trails up to the falls via Skidoo ... 5 minutes on to the trail dirt and rocks were showing such that we couldn't (didn't want to risk the tracks breaking) keep going. We then parked the Skidoos and Michel and I continued on foot. While we walked the rest of the ~1hr uphill walk, Sylvie took a Skidoo back to the cottage, got a 4 wheeler and met us up at the top (an equally challenging feat I must add ...). I think the effort was worth it though.
The thing that is interesting about a place like this is that you can never truly emulate the feeling of being there in a photograph. There is so much more to the place: getting there, the sound of the roaring falls, the chilly ice, the smell of the woods, etc. Having realised that there is no way you are going to completely capture the mood, there is a couple of approaches that you can take to photographing something like this (or try everything like I do ... AKA "spray and pray"). In this post I demonstrate the first method, go WIDE.

Les Chutes Gelé


Les Chutes à Patoche

Rideau Falls Pt. 2

As promised, here is the second installment of the Rideau Falls posts. The interesting thing about taking picture of the Rideau Falls was the two bridges that I crossed to get the different vantage points. Being a very cold day, the mist from the falls was instantly frozen on everything around it. It was very similar conditions (around the falls) to freezing rain. This also meant that I could have probably skated on these bridges. Needless to say (don't you hate when people say that ... if you don't need to say it, don't say it!), I tried to cover up my camera equipment as much as possible when crossing the bridge! I think it was worth it though.

Rideau Falls


Close up of the Falls


Rideau Falls Panorama and a View of Gatineau

Rideau Falls

Even though there are quite a few of these HDR's from the Rideau Falls portion of my walk around Ottawa, I will get through them in two posts. I've been wanting to get out to the Rideau falls for a few images ever since we moved to Gatineau. We noticed them while going over the bridge to the Gatineau side when we saw someone on the side of the bridge (is there even a pedestrian spot there?) taking pictures of them. The many different parts of Ottawa with the "Rideau" name (river, road, buildings, etc.) all derive themselves from these falls when the falls were dubbed "Rideau Falls" since they were a "curtain" of water (Rideau is curtain in French). The rest is history ... and photographs below.

Rideau Falls


Black and White Rideau


Icy Rideau Falls

Waterfalls in the Fall

Good day everyone once again. Despite a couple day break here I am back with one of the most recent sets (yet still a few weeks old) of pictures from the last time I was up at the chalet. While going for a run that morning I saw these falls from the road and said that I had to get back up there that day to get some shots. Long story short, these three, and 4 more to come in a bit, were the results.

Long Line of Water


End of the Line


Converging on the Rock

Bear Creek and Helen Hunt Falls

This is going to be another 'large' post. By that I mean I'm going to throw in here 4 images (not that I am going to ramble on TOOO much). These images go way back to Wednesday of last week. I was originally in search of the waterfalls seen in the previous post, but took a lot longer to get to them than expected. I ended up hiking in a regional park called "Bear Creek Park" and making my way up to a picturesque lookout where I can see over Colorado Springs and a lot of the surroundings. The first below is from this outlook. Around the centre of the image you can see the Garden of the Gods and the parallel ridges of rocks that are leading towards the garden is the Red Rock Open Area. The next two images are from the Helen Hunt Falls area. The first one is of the falls, and the other two are the view from the top of the trail that goes up the mountain.

Look out from Bear Creek Park


Helen Hunt Falls


View From the Top


Down the Helen Hunt Falls

Helen Hunt Falls

Do to lack of time for the moment I am just throwing up one image this time, but there are more to come still from the area. This is a place close to the famous 7 Falls region of Colorado Springs. This one on the other hand is a part of the Regional Park system and is called Helen Hunt Falls.

Helen Hunt Falls

Are you Tired of Waterfalls Yet?

You should be getting tired of waterfall pictures by now. I think that I am. Tomorrow I will probably go back to the other pictures from Kingston that haven't been posted yet. In the mean time, here is another couple pictures of the "watefall find". The first picture is another angle of the same images I've been showing over the last couple of days. The second one is actually further down the river, underneath the bridge, and down a steeper section of falls. Originally the second image was all that I saw. Exploring afterward allowed me to find the falls shown in the first image.

The Next Installment of the Waterfall Find

As promised, here are a couple more images of the waterfalls that I accidentally came across. Usually I like posting the images up here first and then putting them up on Flickr, but I accidentally left these two as publicly available during the day today, so you may have seen them. If not ... enjoy and let me know what you think.

Rivière Blanche et Montée Paiement

Sunday I had my first opportunity to explore a little bit of the photographic opportunities  of the Ottawa/Gatineau region. Basically I said that I was going out to find some images to make even though I didn't know where I was going to go. So I left my house and drove straight away from the populated Gatineau side of the hwy 50 in search of a photo opportunity. About 15km along the winding road I came across a bridge, looked off to one side, and noticed a waterfall! I turned the car around and parked it. There I found out that there are actually two waterfalls and several neat iiareas to photograph, which I am sure that I did not exhaust in my short hour or so shooting. Below are two of the images that I have finished editing, with more to come in the next few days. Needless to say I'm looking forward to exploring the areas other photographic gems in the months to come.