Post some pictures of your city!

Taller Better · #1 Posted: **Oct 11, 2006, 11:57 AM**

I think we need a picture thread in the Canada section, where we can post **NEW**pictures that we take of our cities, or other Canadian cities if we go on vacation. I thought I would start it off with some nature pictures I took yesterday.Here are some pix from a phototour I did of the salmon running up the Humber River. It is fascinating to watch them try and scale a rather high looking ladder. The Cohoe salmon are part of a programme to restock our Lake, and have grown to a huge size (they look about 2.5- 3 feet long. For anyone interested, it should still be happening for only a few short days. Get off at the Old Mill subway station, and walk down into Etienne Brulee park. I took about 100 pix just to get a few that actually captured the beauties leaping in the air! I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed taking them!
There is not a lot left of the Old Mill from the 1840's, and what is left was at sometime Mock-Tudorized. But if you tell yourself that if it had not undergone a faux period change, it probably would have been ripped down, then the result is handsome enough:

All sorts of 2 legged creatures sit about like vultures:

in the distance you can see the "ladder"

one swimming in the shallows:

the ladder (you can see a salmon under the water about half way up:

and a truly beautiful shot:

jeremy_haak · #2 Posted: **Oct 11, 2006, 12:47 PM**

Wow, that's incredible. Amazing shots, I can only imagine how many you had to take in order to capture those few.

Taller Better · #3 Posted: **Oct 11, 2006, 4:10 PM**

Literally I had to take about a hundred to get a few good ones. One trouble with most digital cameras is there is a small delay between depressing the button and the actual snapshot, so by the time you see the salmon leaping, it
is too late! But was great fun, anyhow!

Here are some pictures I took on the weekend at Niagara-on-the-Lake:

buildings back to 1804:

vineyards:

Fall colours have begun!

walnuts

on the drive from Toronto to Niagara on the Lake

the Ford Plant in Oakville

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alps · #4 Posted: **Oct 11, 2006, 7:28 PM**

Here's a bunch of new ones I took earlier this month:

Macdonald Bridge in the background:

Brunswick Street:

Ferry crossing the harbour:

Hollis Street:

House in the north end:

Old rowhouses:

New park:

Point Pleasant Park, with one of the container terminals in the background:

Base of Purdy's Wharf Tower I:

Houses:

Skyline from Dartmouth:

North end:

Downtown:

alps · #5 Posted: **Oct 11, 2006, 7:35 PM**

Taller Better: Great pictures! That town looks really nice, I can't tell the old from the new (a good thing in this case).

mafia guy · #6 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 1:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Taller Better

holy crap, freakin AWSOME!!!

1ajs · #7 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 1:34 AM**

some of winnipeg

Smron · #8 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 2:09 AM**

Took these Monday night.

Downtown

Esplanade Riel

Hootch · #9 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 3:05 AM**

Thinner6 · #10 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 3:44 AM**

^I'm not a huge fan of Edmonton but F**K! Nice picture!

malek · #11 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 3:53 AM**

Stanzmastertron3000 · #12 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 4:45 AM**

Great pics, alps.

More please.

Taller Better · #13 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 5:19 AM**

Thanks guys! Great pix! Keep 'em coming, especially if you have pix that you have taken yourself.
alps, thanks especially for that pic of Ross House!

harls · #14 Posted: **Oct 12, 2006, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Taller Better

Damn man.. I used to live right across from there when I lived in TO. it's an awesome area around the river there.

Here's some I took last weekend - boat tour on the Rideau Canal