CAA Winter Festival of Lights in Winter 2011/2012

On December 30, my family headed down to Niagara Falls to view the lights in Queen Victoria Park. The CAA Winter Festival of Lights doesn’t seem to change much year to year, but it still a nice sight. Almost anything looks good lit up at night. I took some pictures as we walked around. Not…

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Travel photo of the day: Colorful Niagara Falls

From the Travel section of the NBC Today Show web site (including photo): Mary Umbricht of Seekonk, Mass., captured this beautiful photo of Niagara Falls. Umbricht took the picture on Saturday while spending a long weekend in Canada. There was “a lot of color,” she told TODAY.com, and visibility was great due to no leaves…

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Photo of the day: Lights over Niagara Falls

The NBC Today show web site has a Travel section. The photo of the day a couple of days ago was of Niagara Falls at night. It is a very nice photo.

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Clifton Hill – “The Most Fun by the Falls!”

A photographer with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: After shooting more pictures of both the American Falls and Horseshoes Falls then I would ever need but seemingly unable to stop taking “just one more” shot of the beautifully illuminated falls, I finally convinced myself that enough was enough and…

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Safari Niagara in Summer 2010

Note: I was going through some of my draft posts, and found that I had this post essentially all done, but never did post it. It is from some of the trips we took last year to Safari Niagara. I still wanted to post it as there are some nice pictures and a good HD…

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Great Experiences on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls

The Clifton Hill blog has a nice write-up about a photographer from Holland who came and visited, along with some links to some great pictures. Check it out! A few weeks ago we were contacted by professional photographer Ken Cranney, who recently visited Niagara Falls with his wife Ina and son Riley. They traveled all…

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The Traveling Camera: Niagra Falls

From The Source Weekly (including a nice picture): Niagara Falls is one of those places where you can forget its beauty because the falls are surrounded by cheesy attractions in Canada and by rather squalid urban areas on the American side. But the falls are still impressive.

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Pictures from Winter Festival of Lights (2010/2011) Opening Ceremonies

Last Saturday I went to the opening of ceremonies for the CAA Winter Festival of Lights. It is the first time I’ve ever been. I spoke to my wife about it earlier in the week, and we thought our kids would enjoy seeing Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as Greg Frewin, so we made…

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Convention Centre progress

If you follow the comments, you noticed that regular visitor StEC left a comment with a link to some pictures he took from the top of the Hilton. There are many that are nice, but the one that stood out to me was the picture of the Convention Centre. It is a nice looking building,…

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First Falls photo

From Niagara This Week: It was a picture-perfect moment, over 170 years ago. The world known attraction in Niagara Falls will be getting back a piece of its history that was once thought to be lost. Now, 13 years after its re-discovery, one of the earliest known photos of the Falls will return to its…

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