Foggy Skyline shot

harls · #1 Posted **Feb 23, 2009, 8:50 PM**

I took this pano from rue de la Musée just off Gréber (near Montée Paiement). I had no tripod.. just stitched 9 photos together and shrunk it to about 25 % of the size.
The quality isn't that great, but I'd love to go back here again around sunset and on a clear day.

The street doesn't exist on google maps yet, but if you're ever in the area it is a spectacular view - Google Map link

I think I see Acajack's roof.

Ottawade · #2 Posted **Feb 23, 2009, 9:05 PM**

Our skyline looks so much better from the Gatineau side than from the Ottawa end of things. My friends have a cottage near Val-des-Monts and I always like the view of Ottawa from the 50 during the summer.

osirisboy · #3 Posted **Feb 24, 2009, 2:31 PM**

cool pic.

theres still a fair bit of snow

citizen j · #4 Posted **Feb 24, 2009, 8:24 PM**

Great shot!
I agree with Ottawade, the skyline looks better from Gatineau.

Acajack · #5 Posted **Mar 3, 2009, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

I think I see Acajack's roof.

Nice try, but not quite. A little too far east mon ami!

harls · #6 Posted **Mar 3, 2009, 2:06 PM**

Dang. Thought I had it narrowed down to at least one of 200.

Acajack · #7 Posted **Mar 4, 2009, 2:24 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by harls

Dang. Thought I had it narrowed down to at least one of 200.

Meilleure chance la prochaine fois!

AuxTown · #8 Posted **Jun 1, 2010, 2:40 AM**

I thought these would be an appropriate addition to this thread. Some smokey shots from today's Citizen:

url: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/...990/story.html

Jamaican-Phoenix · #9 Posted **Jun 1, 2010, 3:27 AM**

Great shots. It also gives me the illusion that that is what Ottawa will look like with Toronto level smog.

Dado · #10 Posted **Jun 1, 2010, 4:11 AM**

Back in June 2004, we had similar conditions, but from forest fires in Alberta iirc.

I took this picture from the main island on the Champlain Bridge (Bates Island I think) one special morning:

What was so special about this morning? It was the transit of Venus in front of the sun. That morning the sun rose with Venus transiting it, and because of the heavy smoke, haze and low angle you could actually see it safely with the unfiltered naked eye:

That dot lower right is the planet Venus - it's kind of awe-inspiring to think how small a planet the size of the Earth appears against our sun, and it's only about a quarter of the distance to the sun.

I shot that with a 500 mm lens, unfiltered - something one wouldn't normally do. I really should get better scans of these directly from the negatives.

The next transit of Venus is in June 2012, and will be visible to us in Ottawa as sunset approaches.

waterloowarrior · #11 Posted **Jun 1, 2010, 5:23 AM**

great shots Dado!!

The smell was crazy this morning...

canadave · #12 Posted **Jun 2, 2010, 9:33 AM**

The third and fourth Citizen shots make Ottawa look like Victorian London.