When the City of Ottawa starts blasting the ice above the Rideau Falls to prevent ice jams on the falls (This prevents flooding in this part of the city) you know Spring is on the way. We went down to the falls to do some Long Exposure photography to hopefully give a sense of movement of the water and ice. Most of the shots were between 1-5 seconds in length and 100 ISO, F29.
Rideau Falls 
Rideau Falls and City Skyline 
Ice boulders 
Water Flow 
Rideau Falls 
Rideau Falls 
Memorial Reflections 
Ice heading to the falls 1 
Ice heading to the falls 2 
Ice on the move 
Rideau River Reflections 
Ottawa River Sunset 
Ottawa River Reflection
So I learned something with this set of photos. Always check your settings. The last photo I took with my camera before I took these was the night shot of Orion. I set the camera to Manual Focus and set the focus to infinity. I forgot to set it back to AutoFocus. These photos all came out as good as they did because of a couple of things. My F-stop was very high, allowing for everything to be in focus both near and far and the exposure was long, so that made the image a bit softer.