Photos

Nightime shot of downtown Ottawa looking out towards the river. Whilst probably not the most imaginative light trails shot, I wanted to try and capture the view from my 21st floor hotel room so I set my tripod up on the balcony late one night and took this 5min (ish) exposure.

I probably could have been more creative and gone out onto the street, but it was -25 deg celsius, so I opted for waiting in my hotel room instead!

I studied this a bit before hand, and because of the traffic light sequences decided I needed to use a quite a long exposure to get a good mix of red and white light trails without too many stationary or ghosted cars, so I thought I'd just leave it out there for a while!

In addition to the light trails, I really like the effect on the tower block and the variation shown in the lights from the windows.

What do you think?

Cheers
Simon