Parliament Hill And The River Over Time

Once a month, more or less, I come up to a viewing platform where the Alexandra Bridge starts to cross over to Gatineau. From here, I take a shot of Parliament Hill above the Ottawa River through the seasons for documentation. The Chateau Laurier and the Rideau Canal can be seen at left in these pictures.

This first shot was taken in early March on a sunny day. 

In early April, I returned. The ice was breaking up.

The middle of May saw very different conditions, with spring underway.

I missed getting to this spot in June, but passed by on Canada Day, on a day that was hazy due to wildfire smoke conditions.

Later in the month, here's how it looked.

This was how things were looking in August.

Late in September, I returned once again, early one morning.

This was how things looked in the middle of October.

However, by the time I returned in the latter part of November, I was in for a surprise. The Alexandra Bridge is being worked on for some time to come, and the pedestrian lane closed up. The bridge itself is closed up to cars, with pedestrians and bikes allowed through on the central lane. And so my viewing platform was cut off to access. I decided to find a similar vantage point just up the road, a hundred metres or so.

I was returning from visiting the Museum of History a few days before Christmas. I took another shot from here.

But to be honest, I wasn't happy with the location, and thought of another spot a short walk further, in Major's Hill Park, a spot I have often photographed from. I took this shot with the last light of the day. This will do nicely going forward with this series.