What I really like is the airplane taking off. It adds a dynamism to what otherwise would be a static shot. (It would be one of Porter Airlines jet props leaving the downtown Billy Bishop airport.)
Both shots are excellent but I think I have a slight preference for the colour. I wondered what the impact might be if you had included one of the ferry boats which regularly ply between the islands and the mainland. Not sure.
As a matter of interest, there are three islands. Centre Island is a unique community that is the year round home to about 300 people. Nothing quite like it anywhere in North America. Both the island community and the air traffic are major running controversies.
(I'm an ex Torontonian now retired north of the city.)
It is DIEPPE (not DIEP.) It was a Canadian operation, involving the Essex Kent Scottish. The waterfront park in Windsor Ontario, home of many of the casualties, is named DIEPPE GARDENS. To this day, the Windsor Star publishes any number of memorial items in its obituary section on the August anniversary of the raid. There were no actual tanks but tracked armored vehicles. However the beach at Dieppe is pebbled and the small pebbles jammed the tracks and immobilized them. A veteran told me that when Mountbatten gave the troops a pep talk, he returned to shore rather than continue with them. He said that's when he realized it would be a major screw up.
I've been in most of the major cities of Europe. Although London is my favourite, Paris is the most beautiful. My wife and I put a lock with our names on it on a bridge near Notre Dame. I think it's a wonderful tradition. (They do the same at the Great Wall of China.) However I read that the locks are removed by the city every so often because their collective weight creates problems with the bridge. When we placed our lock, we were interviewed by a German TV crew that happened to be there, probably because we are an older couple (married more than 50 years at the time.)
Driving in Britain...
The left side is the right side and the right side is suicide.
Very easy to convert kilometres to miles...just mentally multiply by 6 (point 6 actually.) I used to do it all the time but I've begun to think kilometres.
Or to be very rough, a kilometre is just a tad more than half a mile so 50 miles is roughly 90-95 kilometres.
Incidentally why do people keep mispronouncing it kil-LOM-eter?
It's KILO-meter, same as it's MIL-i-meter and CENT-i-meter. Nobody ever talks about a cent-TIM-eter.
Canada supposedly switched to metric 30 years ago but we still have a hodgepodge. Our speed limits are in kilometers and our gas is in litres. But we still buy 2x4 lumber in 8 foot lengths and use 8 1/2 x 12 inch computer paper. Britain's conversion some years ago also has had mixed results. Although our temperatures are in Celsius, most people still think Fahrenheit and use thermometers with both scales. There is no doubt metric is far superior. The medical profession has always used it. The United States and Liberia are the only two countries that don't use it. We photographers have used it for years without thinking about it --- 35mm film --- 100mm lenses. It takes an effort to think metric. Most people just can't be bothered. Yet it comes in time.If I watch American television or drive in the US, I am very uncomfortable with Fahrenheit temperatures and miles per hour. Yet, despite all this, I inflate my tires PSI and calculate my mileage as MPG.I have no idea what a kilopascal is and X litres per 100 kilometres is just too upside down a way of thinking for me whereas 20 miles per gallon tells me something.
Yes the locks were there in 1940. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1956. Prior to that there was a canal system that dated back to the nineteenth century. I remember as a boy in Montreal during the war visiting my grandparents who lived over one of the powerhouses on the Lachine Canal. (He had been the stationary engineer in charge of it.) We needed a special pass to enter the canal area which was guarded by Canadian soldiers. I have very vivid memories of ships passing within feet of his living room window. In those days Montreal called itself "the world's biggest inland seaport." Ships from Europe would go to Montreal. Cargo would be transferred from or to the lakers which then steamed up the Great Lakes. It was much the same in Cornwall Ontario where I also lived at one time. The old locks in both places as well as the old Lachine and Soulanges canals were abandoned. The once scenic rapids at Milles Roches (a thousand rocks) were flooded. The old Cornwall canal is still there but unused. I'm not sure what happened to the Soulanges and Lachine canals. In think the Soulanges was inundated. Interesting marine history but German U Boats were never a part of it.
This already has been debunked. There is no way a submarine could have made it farther inland than Quebec City. At the time, there were rapids, canals and locks at Montreal, Cornwall and Niagara. (Today it's the St. Lawrence Seaway.)
Some German U Boats indeed were active in the Gulf of St. Lawrence but it would have been impossible to go past these natural and man made barriers.
You simply have failed to understand or accept the fact that cats are the dominant life form on the planet and have absolutely no interest or concern about our problems.
I leave mine on most of the time mainly as protection for the lens. Some people use a UV filter for that purpose.
The polarizer is there when I want to use it and I have not found it to create any problems when I don't really need it. But whether UV or Polarizer, you are still adding an extra layer of glass which can degrade the image, especially if it's not clean.
This is nothing new. It's designed to save electricity. I first experienced it thirty years ago in a hotel in Singapore. Since then I've seen it frequently in Asia and Europe.
The locks were opened in 1956. But (see my earlier posts) there were rapids (Mille Roches and Lachine) and canals and locks at Cornwall Ontario and Montreal.)
There also were locks and rapids at Cornwall Ontario, west of Montreal. The way shipping was done back then was for the ocean ships to go as far west as Montreal where cargoes were transferred to lake ships which then navigated the old canals and locks up the Great Lakes. At that time Montreal billed itself as the largest inland seaport in the world. Of course, when the Seaway opened in 1956, ocean ships could go all the way to Detroit, Chicago, Duluth and other inland ports thousands of miles from the sea.
Total BS. To get to Lake Ontario it would have had to navigate either the Lachine Rapids at Montreal or the Lachine Canal and its locks which, at the time, by-passed the rapids. This was before the St.Lawrence Seaway was built. Neither would have been possible.