A Walk through Gatineau Park
Category: Photographs
A walk through a tiny little slice of Ottawa
What I did on my Summer Vaction – Part 7
CFS Lac-St-Denis was decommissioned in 1986. The pictures barely convey just how big and empty this building is.
What I did on my Summer Vacation – Part 6
Along hwy 7, you can find Gibbs Gas, near Arden. I’m not sure it’s actually abandoned, so much as out of use. The hydro is still connected and someone still takes care of the lawn around it. It’s featured in a documentary called “Lost Highway.”
What I did on my summer vacation – Part 5
The gulls at North Beach Provincial Park.
These guys were so ready for their photo shoot today.
What I did on my summer vacation – Part 4
The bascule bridge in Smiths Falls. Great location and an excellent sunset.
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What I did on my summer vacation – Part 3
The kid took me to a path, by the queensway, that she uses to get to the mall. Figured it would be a great place to shoot some long exposure stuff. We had a great conversation about why the lights streak in these pictures and she helped me capture the ghost-dad picture.
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What I did on my summer vacation – Part Two
Some low light and long exposure shots. The stars and the light painting were done at Petrie Island. The other were taken at a tunnel under the highway over in Hull.
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What I did on my summer vacation. Part one
The Highway House.
Part of the plan for the summer, is to travel west on Hwy 7 and explore some of the abandoned and forgotten places along the route. On my first trip out, last week, I spotted the Highway House. Just outside of Carleton Place, right off the highway, stands the house and some silos. Google maps will tell you that there’s a driveway that you can pull into. This is no longer accurate. There is no driveway and no road leading to the house, at all. But, you can get there. I got off the highway and drove down a couple back roads and then walked down a hiking trail. A few minutes down the trail, there’s an almost dry creek; google maps was able to show me that the creek actually led to the highway house.
A couple days ago, I went back with lots of water and an exploration partner and some boots.
If the creek had been actually dry, this would have been a 25 min trek, or so. However the creek was not all that dry. It began with the kind of soft mud that will suck the boots off your feet and then became an actual creek. There’s banks that you can awkwardly walk along and eventually you can just climb up and away from the creek, to the right, and walk through very tall grass instead (this is way easier than the banks of the creek). The trek is about 45min to an hour. Be prepared for more frogs than you have ever seen in one place. With each step we scattered about 5 frogs. I got truly scared that I’d have to scrape them off my boots. If you can handle all that, you’ll get to the highway house. It was so very worth it.
The view from the various windows kinda blew my mind.
Here are a ton of shots from in and around the house, more “Hey look at how abandoned this is” than “Hey aren’t these pictures gorgeous?”
Stay tuned for the rest of the summer excursions.
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Downtown Ottawa – March 2016 (part 2)
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