Montréal - Cold...... and warm!

[Mahratta]

Originally Posted by Taller, Better

Thank you!! No, I did not use a tripod.. it takes way too much time when it is cold out, but you get such a nicer picture with a tripod. I put my iso to the maximum of 1600 and just hoped for the best, but the pics are slightly grainy. Also, I meant to put in some interior shots of Notre Dame that I took last summer... this time when I went in, a church service was in progress, and no photography is allowed at that time.

Well, there is surprisingly little ISO distortion for not using a tripod (even with an ISO cranked up that high) - good work, you must have really stable hands!

The Notre Dame pictures are splendid, as always.

[Aaron W]

Wonderful street scenes. Trés belle!

[habsfan]

That's got to be the best set of pictures i've ever seen on Old Montreal and the Gay Village!

Simply amazing. Thank you for posting these pics!

[malek]

Great photothread, you had the guts to go outside and shoot pics, bravo!!


Btw, its the Court of Appeal of Québec: from their website:

The Court of Appeal is the highest court in Quebec.

It plays a role which is different from that of the other courts of appeal in this country in that it is the guardian of the integrity and the development of Quebec civil law. In more than 99% of the cases, the Court of Appeal is the court of last resort.

Here is the Court of Appeal ( la Cour d’appel de Montréal):

my office used to be here, the view was the only thing worthwhile all that time i spent there:
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That Church looks great, first time i see a picture from the inside!:



I also had no idea there was a tour of the church towers, thanks for the tip!

[Taller, Better]

Originally Posted by habsfan

That's got to be the best set of pictures i've ever seen on Old Montreal and the Gay Village!

Simply amazing. Thank you for posting these pics!

Thank you very much! I must get my summer photos from 2007 organised...
I much prefer the Village pics from the summertime! But Old Montreal looks pretty magic in the winter.

Originally Posted by malek

Great photothread, you had the guts to go outside and shoot pics, bravo!!


Btw, its the Court of Appeal of Québec: from their website:

That Church looks great, first time i see a picture from the inside!:

I also had no idea there was a tour of the church towers, thanks for the tip!

Thanks malek! That is a compliment, coming from a professional photographer as yourself!
You are so right about the Court of Appeal, and I was careless not to even look at a photo
I had taken myself:



The tour in the Museum is well worth the time.. for some strange reason it was free last Sunday
(maybe all Sundays are free), but I would have happily paid to see it.



In any case, I will get my summer photos organised... they are heavily architectural, and in some cases
quite detail oriented. There is no shortage of such shots to be had in Old Montreal, particularly on
Rue St Jacques...

[isaidso]

Rue St. Jacques is a very impressive street. I've always admired it.

[malek]

its my favorite street.

have you been inside the royal bank ex-HQ??



Its amazing, I also worked there for half a year, always impressed in the morning :p

[Taller, Better]

Oddly I don't think I have been in any of those old banking buildings, aside from the Bank of Montreal one. I normally tend to visit on weekends when they are closed for business... and those danged security guards get all shirty when you pull a camera out! One cathedral still left on my list for good interior shots is La Cathédrale Marie Reine du Monde (Mary, Queen of the World) which was roughly designed as a one third scale copy of St Peter's in Rome. I've been in, but have not had my camera with me. Also I want to hit Le Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, but am going to leave it till the summer as it was just too cold this past visit.

[xzmattzx]

Stunning pictures! I never realized how much of Old Montreal is stone. What a wonderful neighborhood!

As usual, you did a great job of showing what the area is like. Hopefully you get a chance to go back and show us more of Montreal soon.

[Nouvellecosse]

Awesome set! Is this your first post from outside S. Ont. or Brazil?

I particularly like this image:


When I first saw it, somehow I thought of Philadelphia. The two buildings with the pointed tops remind me of when the Liberty Place buildings were its tallest.

[malek]

here's the interior of the royal bank building just to give you an idea on what you missed out:

[Taller, Better]

Wow, that really is beautiful inside, malek. I love that barrel-vault ceiling. Maybe next visit I can try and get inside on a Monday.. but again the trouble is banks don't like a person taking pics. They stopped me once when I was trying to photograph the inside of the old Bank of Montreal hall.
Thanks Nouvelle! This is the first thread I have made outside of S Ontario, Brazil and Mexico. Glad everyone liked the pics!

[malek]

Ok, you can go there anytime you want, there's ATMs inside... so getting in is not a problem.

Obviously, if they see you holding a camera coming in they'll tell you not to take pics, the guard might even come with you to the atm.

But if you have a noiseless point and shoot camera in your pocket, you can shoot when you are at the ATMs... he'll never know because his desk is out of sight from the ATM.

[Taller, Better]

Is there a "Doors Open" kind of weekend in Montreal when buildings like this let people in to visit? That would be ideal, and I could plan a weekend around it...

[Rumors]

Amazing TB.

[malek]

Originally Posted by Taller, Better

Is there a "Doors Open" kind of weekend in Montreal when buildings like this let people in to visit? That would be ideal, and I could plan a weekend around it...

not aware of such a day, there's a musuem day, but not a building day :p

but that building is always open, so no stress.

[christos-greece]

Awesome shots T.B.

[Deanb]

beautiful greggy!!

[Taller, Better]

Thanks guys~!

[yarabundi]

Originally Posted by Taller, Better

I'm a Montréal city tour guide and our professionnal association's office are in this building on the left -the Guardian Building from roughly 100 years ago (built in 1902)

Thanks for the tour. It is quite interesting to see that for once a photograpĥer added historical facts to his pics. Some are not exactly right -so I will correct but for the most part it is very precise.
Notre-Dame church was not started in 1829 but finish that same year. the construction started in 1825.
The Old Seminary is the oldest structure made out of stone in the Old-Montréal but not on the island. there is a house way out of the city in the district named Lachine that is a little older : the LeBer-Lemoyne house was built in 1669.
Next time you come to Montréal, you might want to take pictures frome the top of the Museum of Point-à-Caillère in the Old-Montréal (all year round) and from the Clock Tower in the Old Port Park (only accessible in summer)