Montreal In January

 

 

As we were saying a few days back, everything looks better in the Winter.  The colder, the better.  It certainly was cold this past Saturday morning.  The temperature with wind chill was into the minus 30's Celsius, so that meant that I had to head down to the river.  A quick check of the traffic cameras showed that there was a huge cloud of ice fog hovering over Montreal and I can't pass up the chance to make my fingers numb.  I headed to the foot of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in order to get a shot of the bridge disappearing into the frozen mist.  A little later, I was back on the road dropping off My Lovely Assistant for her Day Job and had The Heir Apparent with me.  After dropping off My Lovely Assistant, we drove back to the Pont de la Concorde to take a wider shot of the disappearing bridge and all of the ice on the river.  I knew I had a good photograph on my hands when I got into the backseat with the Heir Apparent afterwards and she gave a 'Ooooohhh' after seeing it on the camera.  That reaction is usually reserved for photographs that I take of her, so I figured it was pretty good.  I sent them off to Weather Specialist Lori Graham at CTV Montreal and she was kind enough to air them during the evening newscast.  I say it often, but thank you very much Lori, it is always great to see my name on the television.  The first photograph was taken at f/7.1, 1/500sec, ISO 100 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/7.1, 1/100sec, ISO 100 at 35mm.  It's true, nothing says 'Montreal in January', like a nice thick cloud of ice fog.  Bring on the cold weather, I most enjoy it.