Good morning Gary and Ray, Thank you for your positive feedback. This is an image of the Chateauguay River, it was taken in Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada, in August Past. The following is a little bit on the river and a bit on my connection to it. The source of the Chateauguay river is in the Adirondack mountains of Northern New York state, USA, in the area of the Chateaugay lakes. The rivers "2 branches" flow North into Canada crossing into South Western Qc. and join into one main body just South of Huntingdon, it continues meandering it's total 121 KM course towards Montreal where it discharges into the St-Lawrence river. My connection to the river is that I was born and grew up in Huntingdon, a rural sleepy community of less than 2000 persons. Farming and the textile industry fueled the town. We learned to swim, picnic, we fished, canoed etc on the river. The photo was taken on the South side of town, looking South, in August "low water" The limestone steps are very small, varying 10 to 20 CM in height. However, with the lens close to water level, the perspective is completely different than if I were standing. I used a variable ND filter to slow the shutter speed to a 2.5 second exposure / f16 / ISO 100 / 24mm. Thank you, Jean-Louis
Bonjour Jean-Louis, Thank you very much for the additional and interesting information.I would love to see more of that area as it sounds very nice. You were wise to take the image from a low level as it does give a very different perspective with more interest. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
