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Kelly's Landing After Sunset
My second HDR shot: Kelly's Landing, in Manotick, Ontario.
Still learning the HDR thing. Not as good as most people's yet. Fun though!
This is the view from Kelly's Landing, a real boat landing just behind Kelly's Landing Restaurant, which is one of the finest restaurants in the Ottawa Valley (including inside Ottawa itself)... and being this is a diplomatic town with lots of poeple who pass through or travel from, and influxes of French (Montreal) and Vietnamese (Boat refugees from the 70s) plus a lot of native Irish, Scots, Italian, that's really saying something as Ottawa is blessed with some of the best restaurants on the planet (for some reason Ottawa has also been on a New Orleans and Mexican restaurant kick for about 10 years now, although Thai has become really popular recently... and "Fusion Japanese-Canadian").
Kelly's Landing restaurant is owned and run by Tony (who is Italian, not Irish, though he's married to an Irish Lass). For those that live in Ottawa, Tony used to the chef at Big Daddy's and the Lonestar Restaurant (New Orleans and Mexican restaurants. Quel suprise!) which are owned by the same owner. He left there to start his own restaurant a few years ago. If you're a Big Daddy's fan (and I was) he also took the menu with him, so if you remember about 5 years when the Big Daddy's restaurants changed their menu, Tony is the reason. They were copyright by him as they were family recipees. Among the many items that Tony left with are his famous Bananas Foster, and the best pasta dish on the planet, the Bourbon Street Fettucini. If you go to Kelly's and are very nice, Tony is more than happy to make them on special order. Otherwise you can choose from the regular and special menus which include things like cedar plank salmon, cajun catfish and chicken boxtie (sorry Tony, it's really a crepe but only the real Irish would want boxties anyway).
Kelly's Landing is popular not only for its amazing food, but also for its deck which stetches out nearly to the water front. The deck is just visible in this photo to the right behind the gas sign (it's a boat landing so they also sell gas :-). In the summer it makes one of the most beautiful places in all of Canada to sit and eat. I just wish I could have done the view justice in this shot!
This one is dedicated to Dave (The Haligonian) who introduced me to HDR and who badgered me yesterday and all evening today to get off my butt and post something.
Thanks Dave!
Kelly's Landing After Sunset
My second HDR shot: Kelly's Landing, in Manotick, Ontario.
Still learning the HDR thing. Not as good as most people's yet. Fun though!
This is the view from Kelly's Landing, a real boat landing just behind Kelly's Landing Restaurant, which is one of the finest restaurants in the Ottawa Valley (including inside Ottawa itself)... and being this is a diplomatic town with lots of poeple who pass through or travel from, and influxes of French (Montreal) and Vietnamese (Boat refugees from the 70s) plus a lot of native Irish, Scots, Italian, that's really saying something as Ottawa is blessed with some of the best restaurants on the planet (for some reason Ottawa has also been on a New Orleans and Mexican restaurant kick for about 10 years now, although Thai has become really popular recently... and "Fusion Japanese-Canadian").
Kelly's Landing restaurant is owned and run by Tony (who is Italian, not Irish, though he's married to an Irish Lass). For those that live in Ottawa, Tony used to the chef at Big Daddy's and the Lonestar Restaurant (New Orleans and Mexican restaurants. Quel suprise!) which are owned by the same owner. He left there to start his own restaurant a few years ago. If you're a Big Daddy's fan (and I was) he also took the menu with him, so if you remember about 5 years when the Big Daddy's restaurants changed their menu, Tony is the reason. They were copyright by him as they were family recipees. Among the many items that Tony left with are his famous Bananas Foster, and the best pasta dish on the planet, the Bourbon Street Fettucini. If you go to Kelly's and are very nice, Tony is more than happy to make them on special order. Otherwise you can choose from the regular and special menus which include things like cedar plank salmon, cajun catfish and chicken boxtie (sorry Tony, it's really a crepe but only the real Irish would want boxties anyway).
Kelly's Landing is popular not only for its amazing food, but also for its deck which stetches out nearly to the water front. The deck is just visible in this photo to the right behind the gas sign (it's a boat landing so they also sell gas :-). In the summer it makes one of the most beautiful places in all of Canada to sit and eat. I just wish I could have done the view justice in this shot!
This one is dedicated to Dave (The Haligonian) who introduced me to HDR and who badgered me yesterday and all evening today to get off my butt and post something.
Thanks Dave!