{"id":42123,"date":"2025-07-07T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42123"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:09:06","slug":"niagara-falls-canadian-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/niagara-falls-canadian-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls-Canadian side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some years ago I made a list of three popular places I wanted to visit but had managed to miss in all my travels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cape Cod, Niagara Falls, and the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having grown up in Massachusetts, the first location may seem incongruous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first place I managed to &#8216;tick&#8217; on my list was Niagara Falls. Previously, I&#8217;d visited the city of Niagara Falls, New York where I&#8217;d made numerous railroad photos of the yards and bridges over the gorge. However, I never managed a view of the waterall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My opportunity arose when I traveling with Pat Yough and Chris Guss in February 2010. We had visited Toronto, and on our way to Buffalo, I asked if we could swing by the waterfall, which we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this image of the frozen falls from the Canadian side using my Lumix LX3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"265\" data-attachment-id=\"42125\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/niagara-falls-canadian-side\/20100208-niagara-falls-looking-toward-usap1070279\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?fit=2048%2C1146\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1146\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-LX3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1265664722&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?fit=709%2C397\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?fit=474%2C265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?resize=474%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?resize=709%2C397 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?resize=1022%2C572 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?resize=205%2C115 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?resize=1536%2C860 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20100208-Niagara-Falls-looking-toward-USAP1070279.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, several years later I paid a visit to Cape Cod with Pat Yough. 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