Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Until yesterday I hadn’t taken many shots since returning back to Montreal from the UK last week. However, yesterday the sun was out, we had about 15cm of snow during the weekend and so I was keen to get out and enjoy shooting again.

I decided to walk up Mount Royal where I took a few pics before heading over to Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery and then to the Outremont Summit and Saint Jean-Baptiste woods on the north side of the mountain. It ended up being a long and tiring walk, but was great to be back photographing in the snow…despite my aches and pains today.

Since I covered so much distance and took a lot of shots, I’ll split the resulting shots over a few posts, starting today with some shots taken on my way to Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.

Being a work day for most folks, the mountain was fairly quiet given the beautiful day with the temperature a reasonable -10 degrees. There were some people out though enjoying walking their dog/s, cross country skiing and ice skating at Beaver Lake (lac aux castors)…

No escape from traffic cones
ISO 100 – 70mm – f9 – 1/400 sec

Enjoying a nice winter day
ISO 100 – 92mm – f9 – 1/400 sec

There was plenty of room available on the ice rink at Beaver Lake…

Ice skating at Beaver Lake
ISO 100 – 19mm – f6.3- 1/1250 sec

Ice Skating at Beaver Lake
ISO 100 – 70mm – f6.3 – 1/1250 sec

Ice skating at Beaver Lake
ISO 100 – 75mm – f6.3 – 1/1250 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

No queing needed at the toboggan slides, in fact I didn’t see anyone tubing which was a shame since I had hoped to grab some action shots 🙁

Mount Royal Toboggan slide
ISO 100 – 210mm – f9 – 1/250 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Mount Royal toboggan slide
ISO 100 – 98mm – f4.5 – 1/3200 sec

I’ll continue the post tomorrow with some shots taken at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery that was looking superb under the fresh layer of snow…plus I met my friend the fox again 🙂

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

– Martin

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