Iain Leitch Photography

On Canada Day which is July 1st, I was up in Ottawa with my girlfriend visiting her parents. We went down to Parliament Hill to see the fireworks that were going to happen that night. This was my first time being in Ottawa during Canada Day which was special for me. The fireworks there were the best ones I had ever seen. The first picture is of Center Block which is on the left and of West Block which is on the right of the picture. The following two pictures are of the fireworks we saw that night. The settings I used were f/11 shutter for 4 seconds and ISO 100. These were the two best pictures I was able to get.

Two weekends ago I went up to Silent Lake Provincial Park which is just south of Bancroft. On the way there I stopped by Eels Creek which is picnic pull off from the road. Eels Creek has a river flowing through it that had a waterfall just before it goes under the bridge. The first picture is a long exposure of that waterfall. I had a neutral density filter on my camera and my shutter was open for 4-5 seconds. The second picture of this post is from inside the park. The trail that I was on had quite a few very large trees and this picture is looking up from the base of one of them looking up at the forest canopy. The third picture is from the same trail, the trail passes by a beaver pond which is where I found this frog. The last picture is back at Eels Creek but it from the picnic spot on the other side of the road. This is looking downstream away from the waterfall.