West Montrose

Drove out to Ontario’s only covered bridge just north of Waterloo.

Was a good opportunity to play around with panoramas, since I generally like how a panorama of 50mm photos looks versus a single wider shot.

Next plan is to revisit the bridge at night!

1/80, f/8, ISO 100, 500mm

1/125, f/8, ISO 100, 500mm

1/500, f/8, ISO 400, 500mm

1/60, f/8, ISO 100, 50mm

1/400, f/8, ISO 100, 50mm (panorama of two photos)

1/640, f/4.5, ISO 1600, 50mm

1/100, f/8, ISO 100, 27mm

1/250, f/6.3, ISO 100, 28mm

1/160, f/6.3, ISO 125, 50mm

First Warm Weekend

This past weekend was the first warm one of the year.

To celebrate, I visited a few train spots I’d been meaning to check out and went down around Port Dover to see part of the Lake Erie shoreline I hadn’t spent much time exploring.

1/200, f/8, ISO 100, 50mm

1/800, f/5, ISO 100, 85mm

1/3200, f/3.2, ISO 100, 50mm

1/320, f/8, ISO 100, 50mm

1/60, f/14, ISO 100, 50mm

1/400, f/5, ISO 100, 50mm

1/800, f/6.3, ISO 100, 50mm

1/400, f/8, ISO 100, 400mm

1/250, f/8, ISO 100, 230mm

1/800, f/8, ISO 100, 500mm

1/20, f/5.6, ISO 100, 500mm (two images stacked)

5 seconds, f/8, ISO 2000, 280mm

2 seconds, f/1.6, ISO 1600, 50mm

3 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 2500, 30mm

Preston Springs Hotel Demolition

A couple people had sent me articles about the demolition of the Preston Springs Hotel in Cambridge. I drove down to see it and demolition was already well underway.

The story is one that happens often. A real estate developer buys a neglected heritage property, holds onto it for a few years, and then states there’s nothing to be done and tears the building down. In the world of heritage conservation it’s called “demolition by neglect.”