Photography
We took our friends from Scotland up to the Wilson Carbide Ruins in Gatineau Park. It is a wonderful walk from the parking lot into the ruins and I love the waterfalls. Our friends really enjoyed their visit here.
Our friends visiting from Scotland arranged to go on the Bi-Plane ride at the Aviation Museum. The plane is a 1939 WACO.. room for 2 in the front and the pilot right behind them. They had a wonderful flight and saw the Ottawa River, Gatineau Hills and twice around downtown Ottawa.
A local gem in Orleans is Petrie Island and it’s Beach. The Island hosts a lot of wildlife and you never know what you will see in the sky.
Petrie Island Wildlife
Gatineau AirShow – Red Arrows – from Petrie Island Beach
My wife had received a gift of a Guesswhere Trip from her former co-workers when she retired (to join the Imalaird Team full time), We decided to use it while our friends from Scotland were visiting. Not knowing where we were going until we opened the envelopes provided, we ended up travelling to Perth, Westport and Jones Falls, Ontario. A round trip of about 300kms and it took all day. It was a great day out!
PERTH
Westport
Jones Falls
I thought I took way more photos, but I guess I was driving. We had a super day out with a visit to the Occurrence in Merrickville. Canada’s only manufacture of Puzzles. If you are in the area, I would suggest you include this stop. We had a walk up and down the main street and a picnic at the Locks.
We then drove down to Brockville and visited the historic Train Tunnel and afterwards we had a walk along the riverfront and had Ice Cream and saw one of the Golden Arrows Aircraft.
We then drove down the 1,000 Islands Parkway and had dinner in Gananoque.
We started the Day at the National Art Museum, had a wander downtown, and then ended up at Hogsback falls.
We took our friends to the Mer Bleu Bog for a walk around and to see what we could see. We were not disappointed.
WOW! Where did summer go? We were busy with house renovations (actually they are still ongoing) and we finally stopped for a couple of weeks to host some very good friends and fellow photographers from Scotland.
Our first photographic stop was the Princess Louise Falls in Orleans. The weather was not super cooperative and the second crop of mosquitoes were out in full force. So it was a quick visit, but we got a couple of nice shots.
Tried to use some of my newly acquired Flash Photography skills to try a bit of self portrait photography. I needed a new headshot picture for work, so this is what I ended up with.
I ended up using the first picture.
I was out on my walk and noticed that we have a couple of crosswalks in our neighbourhood. I think crosswalks make for great leading line photos.
