He, he,… A window with a view is one of my favorite subjects to photograph 🙂 I’m glad I got this idea for my new travel photography blog. I have to thank one of the WP challenges for this. It’s the one that I love most to participate in, because of the high quality photos and posts. I’m talking about the Lens Artists Photo Challenge.
You may know that I love windows and you can see them allover my site. However, this is a different subject and I have three ways of showing it:
A window with a view looking from inside-out
These kind of views are the most common – right? We look out of the window everyday, at least to see how the weather is if nothing else… I do this too 🙂
Brr, better inside! This was a view from our (defunct now) condo window in Ottawa, Canada)
A summer rain looks a little better 😉
Time for window washing 🙂
It’s a delight though to see a beautiful sunny day at Christmas time 🙂
We were supposed to leave for Mexico for the holidays, and I didn’t do to much decorating that year… The departure had been delayed though, and we enjoyed a white Christmas 🙂
But, we finally did it, so… On the road again – Yay! * I always try to get a sit near the window 🙂
It is much better to go South after the holidays anyway, because it’s less busy and less expensive too 🙂 A good idea is to shop around on the internet and find the best deals possible. My husband is an expert in doing this and he never gives up. It takes a little longer but it’s worth it.
What can be better than a hotel room on the waterfront in Mexico with the view of the ocean? *The best deal my husband could find after the holidays 🙂
A similar scenario was to find this hotel room in Andalusia, Spain:
The Gross Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada is definitely a place to visit. This is a view of it from the information center:
… and this was the view from the hotel lobby in St. John’s, Newfoundland:
A window with a view looking from outside-in
I often like to look through windows from the outside, and I often see interesting things 🙂
I saw this scene in St.John’s, Newfoundland for example. An elder lady was watching the street from her window
Some views from outside looking in can be quite interesting, like the examples I gave in the “Travel windows framing photography” post – click to see them.
Others can be even more spectacular. An example is this window display of the Liberace exhibit at Cosmopolitan complex in Vegas:
… And here peek through a Bistro window in Paris Las Vegas
But what do you think about this candy shop in Munich, Germany?
Or maybe a yummy view of a Patisserie in Stuttgart, Germany? 🙂
On to the next level:
Photographing through the windshield 🙂
I have to confess that my best ever window with a view is the car window 🙂 I know that a professional photographer would never do this, but I’m not, so I’m not at risk to lose my permit – Ha, ha…
It is not necessarily because of the laziness, but sometime you can get a better view from the passenger seat. Not only, but there are situations when you cannot get out.
In Glacier Park, Montana, there was absolutely no way to park for photos (on the road we took). Shooting through the window was the only solution, and this is what I did:
An other example is this view of the road in the Yellowstone park, during a summer storm:
A similar situation was this shot during a rain storm in the streets of Gatineau, Quebec:
In fact, I really like to play with this kind of photography through the windshield in the rain. I feel like I’m creating artistic images when I do this 🙂 Here is another – I forgot to upload it to my Abstract Photography post 🙂
Well, artistic or not, in my travel photography I’m trying to express the sense of the place. I also like to impress my viewers with our adventures and performances, so capturing the moment is a must 🙂
For instance, this is what crossing the mountains of Utah on a snowy day of November looked like. In addition we were pulling a U-Haul trailer behind our car 🙂
That’s it for now 🙂 I hope you enjoyed seeing some of our adventures and my windows with a view pictures.
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #79: A Window With A View – Thank you Amy! 🙂 |
When talking about winter fun, one thing that comes to my mind is Canada, especially Ontario 🙂
The cold season is long in the North part of North America and having fun is the best thing to do. In the years with a lack of snow for instance, Canadians are unhappy, because they cannot use their snow toys 🙂
In fact I heard Canadians saying that they don’t like summer, because it’s too hot – huh…
In the winter, families go outside to have fun and share the joy of the snow with big zest.
I can do it mom! – says this little one 🙂
Even the Canadian pets are having fun in the winter…
Outside or inside, people like to skate… or at least they try:
Canada Winter fun: Skating
BTW: The Rideau Canal Skateway is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and people enjoy skating along a length of 7.8 kilometers (4.8467 miles).
I didn’t skate since I was a teenager, but I enjoyed taking photos 🙂
More winter fun in Canada
During my 6 years of living in Ottawa I had the opportunity to see and photograph many winter activities. One that’s also popular is Ice fishing on the Ottawa river or nearby lakes.
Some find that it’s even funnier to fish at dusk… I took this photo on the other side of Ottawa river, in Gatineau, Quebec.
And if you like winter outdoors activities, Gatineau Park offers 361.31 km2 (139.50 sq mi) of hiking and sporting.
But the winter fun in Canada doesn’t stop with winter sports. For some, a good activity is to admire the Centennial Flame while keeping warm with a hot coffee.
** This is a fountain with a symbolic flame in the center, and the the coat of arms of each province around it. It is located in front of the Parliament building in Ottawa. 
As I said, the winter is long in Canada and the fun is great. I hope you like what you have seen so far 🙂 Stay tuned for more to come in my next posts!
* Posted as part of my WP Weekly Travel Photo Challenge #8: Winter Fun.
Do you have some beautiful photography showing any kind of – family friendly 😉 winter fun? Feel free to share your posts as well!
If you like to participate, please link your own blog/posts into the comments area below. Click here to see how: Thursday Travel Photo Challenge
– Thank you, and Let’s Travel Together! 
I also submitted to:
Cee’s challenge: On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Week 1 – Get Outside | Nurturing Thursday: – Happiness is a Choice | FOWC with Fandango — Zest |
Traveling Ontario in January can be quite rewording: lots of beautiful places and winter travel photography opportunities. This is a retrospective of our first days of January 2013 trip in the Southern Ontario. I’m talking about the part of Ontario, from Ottawa to the South-West.
We didn’t do this trip with the sole purpose of taking photos, but I ended up with lots of them. You may know by now that I like to see and photograph winter scenes, so here we are 🙂
On the road again in the first days of January:
I was attracted by this white country wooden house in the snow surrounded by trees:
Did you know that there is a village in Ontario called Shakespeare? Well, if you drive West from Mississauga on Hwy 8, you will find it in between “New Hamburg” and “Stratford”
Here is what the New Hamburg Ontario (founded in 1854) village looks like. It doesn’t have anything in common with Hamburg in Germany other than the name. Apparently, the locals of this nice quiet village feed the geese in the winter, therefore they don’t migrate South… You can see thousands of them on the Nith River crossing the village. Although they are vulnerable to the harsh Canadian winter, they stay there…
I really liked this winter scene with geese and actually sent a greeting card of it to my friends in Hamburg, Germany that we just visited a year before 🙂
Shakespeare in Ontario!
A few kilometers away from Hamburg (Canada is on meter system), we found the village of Shakespeare… Quite nice, with friendly people!
However, the real Shakespeare place is not this, but Stratford – a city with a population of 31,465 people. European immigrants settled here in the beginning of the 1800’s, mainly as farmers. Those include: English, Irish, Scottish and German people. They settled on the territory of the aboriginal Anishinaabeg people and named the place and the river after Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
Below you can see the frozen Avon River in the month of January in Stratford Ontario. It was almost dark when I photographed it from the downtown park.
Stratford, a city on the Avon River in Perth County, Ontario, Canada is a realy special place:
– Every summer, this is home of the Shakespeare Festival, with artists from all over the world.
Forest Inn
We spent the New Year’s eve there in 2013 and stayed at “Forest Inn” motel. A great stay with clean, comfortable and very affordable rooms, with good accommodation:
I also made a 2013 greeting card at that time for my friends and family 🙂
… Here are some more winter scenes and landscapes of the Stratford, Ontario, surrounding area.
… and this is is a scene that looked attractive to me in the streets of Stratford. It became an After Christmas Fun greeting card and poster and I made a separate post with it on my Giftsmart.com website 🙂
I hope you liked my short story and photos of the first days of traveling Ontario in January. Our winter trip didn’t end here, so more posts will follow. Stay tuned!
* Posted as part of my WP Weekly Travel Photo Challenge #7: January Travel.
Do you have some beautiful photography taken in the month of January? Feel free to share yours as well!
If you like to participate, please link your own blog/posts into the comments area here below
Click here to see how: Thursday Travel Photo Challenge
– Thank you, and Let’s Travel Together! 🙂
I also submitted to:
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Retrospective | Lens Artists Photo Challenge #78 – Special Spot Shots | FOWC with Fandango — Vulnerable | Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter Scenes | Which Way |