Night and day

On my way over to the Saw Gallery to see Muffler Crunch I snapped a photo of the new construction near the University of Ottawa.


Multidiscpline Building, University of Ottawa, 8 p.m., July 1

On the way to take photographs of fireworks, I took another picture.


Multidiscpline Building, University of Ottawa, 10:05 p.m., July 1

I mean, why not?

Fire in the sky

My aunt loaned me her camera tripod - she never uses it, and thought I might find some use for it in conjunction with my then-new Olympus E-500. It certainly came in handy on Canada Day. After watching Muffler Crunch at the SAW Gallery, I went to the Laurier St. Bridge, stationed myself behind a bunch of folks in chairs and snapped a few dozen pictures of fireworks over their heads. These pictures were mostly taken with a shutter speed of 3.2 seconds, ISO 100, f-stop 5.6 (I meant to shoot at 8, but must have fiddled with it by accident). I don't have a remote release, so I set the two-second delay. That way I didn't have to touch my camera while it was open.


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1


Fireworks over the Chateau Laurier, July 1

It was all good fun (the drunken play-by-play by a guy on my left notwithstanding). That said, I think I find the foreground more interesting. The two guys leaning up against the traffic light post at left, the row of buses ready to haul drunken revellers home, rain speckling the Rideau Canal and the curve of lights are somehow more evocative to me.