The first major festival of the year in town is the Tulip festival, honouring the wartime stay of the Dutch royal family in Ottawa, the birth Princess Margriet here, and Queen Juliana's subsequent annual gift of tulips to the city. The beds of tulips at Dow's Lake contain a spectacular display of 300,000 tulips, and are the focal point for many, many visitors to the city. Tulips are seen throughout the city, from sites downtown, to home gardens everywhere, including my own.
Nikkor 70-300mm lens, E100VS film. Four images stitched together.
Wildflowers
Spring in Ottawa is marked by an explosion of wildflowers after too many months of dullness. In April and May, forests are the home to the first colour of the year, and I look forward to this event every year. In this area, you can see easily find Spring Beauty, Hepaticas, Dutchman's Britches, Trout Lilies, Trilliums, not to mention the tree's flowers themselves. As the season moves into summer, flowers outside of the forest take hold.
Personal FavouritesThis is a gallery of my own personal favourites, that don't fit into the confines of the other galleries here. Any subject, anywhere, any time. Just click on the thumbnail to view the large version.
I combined three images of the same bed of Daisies and Brown-eyed Susans, to create the impression of the mass of flowers that were growing on a vacant lot.
A dense patch of Viper's Bugloss (which has got to be the best wildflower name around) grows each year beside a diner in west-end Ottawa. I used to watch this patch regularly on my way to work.
I was drawn to the visual contrast between the yellow maple leaf, and the darker matt of leaves underneath, with a soft shaft of mild sunlight illuminating the maple leaf.
One of my first successful "sandwich" photographs. With this technique, you take two photographs, one in-focus, about 1-2 stops overexposed. Next take an out-of-focus photograph of the same scene, also 1-2 stops overexposed (more or less than the sharp version, depending on which you want to dominate). Then, you take both slides and mount them together (working *hard* to maintain alignment, and to remove all the dust and dirt that accumulate; this is a real pain in the neck!).
Maria Zorn gave me the idea of using a reflector to make an abstract. The reflector in this case is some tin foil wrapped around cardboard. It was a lousy reflector, so I had to hold it really close to the flower to get any image at all.
The first "real" snow of the year, just after some freezing rain the previous evening. I had spent over an hour taking pictures, and freezing my hands off before I looked up and saw this beautiful scene above.
The shapes created by the overhead leaves attracted me to this photograph. The shape of the black sky is really the "center of interest" here, rather than the leaves. I used a polarizer along with a deep red filter to contrast the fall leaves (actually strongly yellow) with the sky.
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