The city of Niagara Falls, Ontario both on the American and Canadian side are probably the most fun and obvious places to enjoy photo opportunities. If you take a walk down by the falls area, you will essentially see people taking pictures, videos and blogging no matter the time of day, or night.
We're talking hundreds, or thousands even an hour! The internet is flooded with everyone's favorite take on their largest waterfall in the world but how many people understand all of the geography behind the spectacular feats they are witnessing? Each ring represents a period of freezing, and layers upon itself similar to how a tree grows. The accumulated salt, and the latent debris from human activity get mixed into the water, and as the mist sprays against the large rock formations, it creates these circular patterns. Ice, wind and this years and has developed in an almost alien-like crop circle appearance on the American side of Niagara Falls.
As the ice melts, and then refreezes the rocks along the Falls region develop patterns of symmetry that almost look like alien crop circles. Very unique, and mathematically oriented based on pure physics, these limited time only photo opportunities will be here until the snow melts. Your camera is important, well you wouldn't be able to take a picture without it would you? But the timing, setting an angle is just as important! When shooting the region of Niagara falls, especially if you want to capture the effervescent beauty of that elegant mist, heading out there in the morning is your best bet. Get as high as possible, this means using a stationary point. Of course, many people like to use the ferris wheel, but that will ultimately limit your ability to gain angles that other people haven't thought of. In a setting where everybody's taking a picture, making your stand out is going to do exactly that.
The Beauty of Pollution
Without human activity, the use of road salt, sand and other debris that gets mixed into the Niagara River that beautiful spectacular these formations simply would not exist. Without us essentially terraforming the planet, they wouldn't be this splendor, even though it's causing massive environmental damage! I'm not saying let's trash the planet, but there's always beauty in destruction.
Sharing
Remember that when you're sharing your work, taking your information and sharing it on social media is simply going to be redundant. Let's be honest here! Everybody is shooting Niagara falls. The best way to save your images, and share with others would be to create physical copies, print and display them or even give them away as donations. What's more captivating, social media posts that will be overrun, or inevitably expire? Or a physical image you can give as a gift, or create a postcard out of?
Similar to the ice floats of Crystal beach, during the winter months around Lake Ontario and the Golden Horseshoe area provide many different photo opportunities that simply can't be ignored. As humans speed up changes to their own environment, we now have the opportunity of experiencing major weather events that usually would take millennia to occur.
One interesting point is that these markings closely resemble the architecture from Native American culture. These spectacles are solely based on North American pollution and environmental destruction that is based on colonization. I guess every generation people have their own way of leaving their mark.
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