Welland Canal goes DRY!! [pics]
 

Each winter the St. Lawrence Seaway Commission drains the Welland Canal that connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie for routine maintenance.

Last winter I took advantage of the low water levels to do some landscape shots of the canal around the St. Catharines area.


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cool. good shots.

these look cool.

Very nice! :)

Cool Pics
 

I'm always amazed how they build those locks. Not like you can turn the river off, until you have a way to turn the river off.

Thats a lot of water

HDR photos create a cool look.

Interesting photos. I grew up in sight of Lock 7.

Horrible HDR

nice piss! umm, i mean pics! :thumbsup

Really nice pics :thumbsup

Nice shots.

Nice stuff.

Love the HDR. That's one sexy looking canal. ;)

Very nice and interesting shots as per usual sir !! :thumbsup

what, no dead bodies ??:winkwink:

Naw, those are usually down by Niagara Falls.

I'd agree - if it were HDR.

Okay, just horrible processing then.

Very nice !!!

Interesting pics :pimp

wheres all the fish flopping on the ground?

cool shots

Love that grime contrasted by a surreal sky.

wow that sucks!

very nice pics with great atmosphere man, thanks for the share!

I like the HDR look for some pics. The 5D Mark III has a new HDR feature that I'm playing around with and it's pretty cool.

I use to think shots like these were the result of amazing photography until I bought Photomatix and realized how easy it is to create this look. Still very cool pics.

For me there is a fine line between good HDR and truly bad HDR. I've heard mixed reviews on the built-in 5DM3 HDR but I've yet to try it myself.

I've only experimented a little with Photomatix and 5-frame HDRs - but haven't gotten the results I'm happy with yet.

The shots above were processed with Topaz adjust and Imagenomic portraiture (saturation tweak).

Im glad youve been back...

Hey, thanks Deej. :thumbsup

Great pics! Love em... and they're not even porn!!!

I really like that look. I'm planning a trip to Colorado next month and plan on experimenting a lot with that HDR feature. I think HDR does a better job of displaying depth.

HDR is especially good for scenic photos with water - rivers, ponds, lakes (especially shallow rivers and lakes - the HDR makes the rock formations under the water more visible and gives a better sense of depth).

Bodies
 

Years ago a businessman disappeared under suspicious circumstances after meeting a guy. Then 20 years later, during a drought, they found his car in the river. Years later, they finally found his skeleton, in a cave by accident.

Never know what you might find when the water's down.

Oddly, they just found a torso in the Niagara river just below the Falls.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/identity-o...known-1.937446

Clusterfuck
 

"Police have not been able to determine whether the torso came from the Canadian or American side of the Niagara River"

Where she was killed? If alive when she went in the water, which country did she drown in? Man is this going to get complicated. Does sound like she was sliced and diced prewater.
Keep me posted.