Canada

Often you see the combination with old and new styles in the interior design, walls with old bricks and cables, completed with brushed stainless steel, aluminum, and glass elements. For higher skyscrapers, you have to go to Toronto at least, to see a raw-brick building with a glass tower integrated.

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/2000s
• Focal length: 70mm
• ISO: 160

I was impressed that the Niagara Falls are two falls. One of it on the Canadian side and the other on the American side. The whole area is more significant than I thought. Often I have seen many Youtube videos, pictures and documentaries of sight, and then I am a bit disappointed when I am standing before the attraction. The opposite was true with the Niagara Falls, more excitement and spectacle than I have imagined.

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/6.3
• Shutter speed: 1/160s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 100

Thank you for the music and thank you for the show, magnificent and spectacular Cirque Du Soleil. Seen in the hometown, in the tent in Toronto. With my camera at the ready, I tried to catch the decisive moments. I had to balance the right mixture from ISO, shutter speed, and f-stops, because of the dim lights, the movements on the stage and my situation with the hand-held camera.

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/3.5
• Shutter speed: 1/30s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 1600

I was at the Comic-Con, watching Star Wars troopers and Manga-comics. Then there were three hours spare time before I met with my wife again. I used a tourist coupon for a harbor cruise.  Since it was very hectic before I entered the boat, I had only my iPhone with me. My self-proclaimed challenge was shooting photos of the boat trip with my iPhone. From time to time I like it to be restricted to only one tool and try to get the best out of it.  😎

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• Camera: iPhone 6 Plus
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/2300s
• Focal length: 4.15mm
• ISO: 32

Toronto is a power-metropolis, 10-lane streets, excellent infrastructure, a vibrant city. Modern buildings, many young an hip residents. From CN tower you get a great view of the city area. In three days I saw Cirque du Soleil, Comic-Con with Stan Lee, sightseeing with a speedboat. 😎

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/9
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 15mm
• ISO: 500

It is a funny thing in Huntsville, the lake is part of the city, and many residents use boats for shopping and dining. My wife Karin and I were sitting in a restaurant at a big nachos-cheese bowl, as many guests were berthing whit their vessels at that jetty on the photo.  🙂 It was shot with Sony A7R, Sony Distagon T* 24mm f/2 ZA SSM Lens and LA-EA4 adapter.

Post processed with: Aurora 2018, Photoshop CC 2018

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/15s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 100

Capturing a rainbow at the falls is relatively easy.  The bright sun mixed with water dust creates the rainbows over the bay of the Niagara River, giving more excitement to that fantastic nature spectacle.

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• Camera: ILCE-6000
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/400s
• Focal length: 55mm
• ISO: 100

Acrobatic performances, great music, and singing, choreographic masterpieces, all come to an end. The team builds a circle and congratulates to the audience. The people cheer and acclaim for this complete synthesis of art. Cirque du Soleil presents itself again as the top performing circus show in the world.

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/3.5
• Shutter speed: 1/30s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 640

One of the many spectacles at the Niagara Falls. The origin of this water fog is the sheer power and size of the falling water masses. Before my visit I underestimated the falls a bit, thinking they may be a bit overhyped, as I have seen this with some sights already. But the opposite is true, great and gorgeous. There are two kinds of falls, a big water valley and a great view from the Canadian side. And you will get wet, sometimes. 🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/200s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 100

The sheer size of these unbelievable big lakes south of Algonquin Park, Ontario, reminded you more of the open sea instead of lakes. We took an afternoon tour with a rented motor boat, near the evening we started going back to the rental station, where we had some difficulties finding the right waterway back between the lakes, because from our distance all looked nearly the same. 🙂 There I took some photos with the sinking sun breaking through the trees and shimmering on the water.

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/2000s
• Focal length: 34mm
• ISO: 160