Parliament Hill in Ottawa Photo

Photographer’s Note

Taken from the Northern Bank of the Ottawa River on my recent visit to the Canadian capital. I walked round from Parliament Hill, upstream along the river and across to the Civilisation Museum before crossing back into downtown Ottawa for a well deserved Beaver Tail!

Like my previous submission, this shows the partially frozen river but further downstream it was almost completely frozen over - I'll try and submit one of these later in the week.

The weather during the afternoon was really variable, it was bitterly cold and very windy which meant the cloud cover kept completely changing within a matter of minutes (compare this sky to my last submission, which were taken within about 10/15 mins of each other). This was probably the clearest it was all afternoon and the sun was highlighting some of the buildings nicely.

As ever, your feedback is much appreciated!

Cheers
Simon

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giorgimer (21226) 2009-03-24 15:34

Hi Simon,

very fascinating architecture, good composition and POV.

TFS

Gio

BlueRaven (35) 2009-03-25 6:53

Hi Simon,

A familiar sight... I took similar shots from the Museum of Civilization last February but wasn't lucky enough to have such good weather. My beaver tail was yummy though. ;o)
Beautiful light on the buildings. The colours do seem a bit oversaturated though. Good POV, too, although I'd have been tempted to try and avoid that one "stick" just left of the center.

Good job, thanks for sharing!
Claudia

judesta (992) 2009-04-03 0:25

Hi Simon
Good composition, well balanced, nice colours, lovely sky. I like the lines created by the water, ice and land.
Cheers
Jude

rgarrigus (0) 2009-04-04 4:40

Hi Simon,

Of the two images there are bits that I prefer for each. The light on the buildings is nicer in this one. By the second one that fast moving cloud cover brought that shadow (just appearing on the right) over the scene which dampened the modeling of the architecture a bit. That said I think I would have liked a tiny bit more of the foreground foliage in the corner or to have left it out entirely. I'm thinking that his one doesn't quite have enough to make it a meaningful part of the composition. Leaving it out might have been the better choice to keep the attention on the hill.

Cheers!

Bob G.

Photo Information

Copyright: Simon Crumpton (biglad) (435)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-03-11
Camera: Sony A200, Sony 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6, RAW @ ISO 100, Hama Circular Polarizer 55mm
Exposure: f/29.0, 1/4 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-03-24 15:06