Late Night in Tongeren

Here are three more images from an evening in Tongeren (Tongres if you happen to be passing through the French part of Belgium ... but that's another story).

Along the Canal in Tongeren

These three are from an evening stroll down by a canal that passes through the city of Tongeren in Belgium. Due to the lack of light, I found that the 'de-saturated' worked the best. The old city feeling (completely justified since Tongeren is a part of the "Most Ancient European Towns Network" and was even famous for a Gaulic rebellion agains Julius Caesar) and the black and white / desaturated look really accentuated the feeling.

Here are some of my favourite images that I've made from New York; photos from the "Top of the Rock" in the Rockefeller center. We decided that we would either go up to the lookout from the "Top of the Rock" or the "Empire State Building" and finally decided on the former. This way, we had an 'unobstructed' view of the Empire state buildind as well as Central Park. Don't forget to head over to Flickr to see all of the images from New York (that I have released to date).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scerakor/sets/72157632317371574/

Here are a few more from the cruise around the harbour; some more bridges and buildings!

New York Bridges


The Brooklyn Bridge Black and White


Empire State Building from the Water

Gatineau Park Cabin Pt. 2

Here are another couple of shots from the emergency radio cabin in Gatineau park.

Gatinau Park Shelter


Black and White Cabin

The parliament and the view

Just outside of the walls of Vieux Quebec is another prominent tourist view and that is the parliament building. That is what is seen in the black and white picture below. The second image is in fact related to a previous post and is the view from the boardwalk overlooking the St. Lawrence river, the Vieux Port, and the parts of Vieux Quebec not inside the walls below the Chateau.

Quebec Parliament


Vieux From the Chateau Frontenac

Back of the Haunted Hotel

The next two in the hotel series on highway 2 close to Kingston, Ontario.

The Rooms Upstairs

This time when I visited the hotel I ventured up the stairs in the back of the hotel (cautiously making sure every step was still safe) and checking on the inside of the hotel. It looks as if the upstairs was a living area for the owners (complete assumption). There was one room upstairs that looked as much of a mess as those that were downstairs but the rest was eerily clean. The first image below is of the living room which was the most cleared of them all. I really like how this one turned out. The second image was of one bedroom upstairs although not clean and tidy like the living room, was creepily still intact. This includes the bed being made and the dresser relatively cleared. This room was by far one of the creepiest.

Living Room


Bedroom

Creepy Hotel on Highway 2

Here is the first installment of the promised pictures from the haunted hotel. I tried to use monochrome to accentuate the "creepiness" of the place. I'm not sure if I succeeded to the level that I would have wanted, but post processing was fun none the less.

Enter if you dare


Creepy Window

Non-Traditional

This is probably one of the most well recognized landmarks (both of them) in downtown Ottawa. The church stands tall and majestic surrounded by museums and parks. The traditional way of photographing a church is to focus in on this beauty, colour, and grandeur; this photography does none of that. Both by framing the church with a giant spider(?) outside of the museum, using monochrome, and putting it in the background, I have "deprived" this church photo of everything that usually makes it "beautiful". Despite this ... I find this image quite interesting! It just shows that you can risk to "break the mold" every now and then.

Non-Traditional Image of a Church in Ottawa

Monochramatics

One of the interesting things I find about shooting in the winter is that I end up with many more black and white or monochrome images then I do in the Summer. To me this just comes logically. With snow covering the the ground and on semi-overcast days there already is a lot of grey and white in the image. Switching to monochrome brings out the contrast in the scene which can sometimes really bring out its mood. This is the general theme in the two images below. The first one is of the Rideau Locks leading up to the Rideau Canal and the Second is of the the Alexandra Bridge and the way the barrier frames the Parliament building.

Rideau Lock System


Alexandra Bridge and the Parliament Building

Louisbourg

Louisbourg, now a National Historic Site in Cape Breton, used to be one of the most extensive and expensive European fortifications in North America. Passing from French to English (and then back to French?) hands several times through the course of history. Here are three images from our trip over to Louisbourg when we were in Cape Breton this summer.

A look over the town of Louisbourg


The Fortress, Dorms, Chapel, and Military Fortification


Courtyard in the Louisbourg Settlement