On my way to a job in Thetford Mines recently, I could not resist stoping here and there to beef up my asbestos mining stock photo collection. Here is some LAB installation in the district of Black Lake.
To stand in the heart of Arvida, with its plume-spewing smokestacks looming nearby, it’s tough to feel you’re getting a glimpse into a modern-day Eden.
Yet this remote Quebec community was born as a model city and cutting-edge town, a Silicon Valley of its day. And now, local residents are dreaming big: They want Arvida, an industrial “utopia” carved out of the Saguenay plain, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Full story on the Globe website
A Rio Tinto-Alcan bauxite warehouse is pictured in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010. Arvida was planned around the plant so people could walk to it.
The Rio Tinto-Alcan plant is pictured near a residential area in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010.
A woman runs by the Parliament in Ottawa Monday September 27, 2010. Parliament Hill (colloquially The Hill, in French: Colline du Parlement) is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown with a Gothic revival suite of buildings, the parliament buildings, that serves as the home of the Parliament of Canada and contains a number of architectural elements of national symbolic importance.
The Parliament and the Library of Parliament in Ottawa.
And of course, if you missed it, there is that other photo I published of the Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
More images of Ottawa on my stock site.
I am in my last day in Ottawa after 5 days of shooting stock. I did not post-processed any images yet, except this one. I am leaving Friday morning to Kitchener-Waterloo where I will give a speech on stock photography at Wilfrid-Laurier University. Hopefully, I’ll make some photos there as well.
Canadian flag flies over the Peace Tower on the Parliament Hill as the sun set in Ottawa September 29, 2010.
I use HDR very sparingly. But when I am in front of such a gritty location, I know this is the perfect subject for an HDR.
Read everything about my visit (with Nicolas Roberge) to the Morrin Center on this Quebec urbain blog entry.
Muskoka chairs overlooking the St.Lawrence river are silhouetted by the Sun seting in St-Michel de Bellechasse, Qc, August 1, 2010. Adirondack chair, also called Muskoka chair, is a type of chair favored in rural, outdoor settings.