As seen from the 54th floor of the TD Centre, the First Canadian Place tower (home to the Bank of Montreal) is Toronto’s tallest.
The white tiles are made of marble and are slowly being replaced as required. One tile fell 60 floors back in 2007 which prompted road closures and periodic investigations. The darker ones are older and the whiter ones are newer, which makes the building look a little worse for wear.
On my way out the door to catch an early flight, I noticed the sun rising over the city. The sky was a brilliant orange-red colour and I just had to capture it. Screw the waiting taxi, I thought. And I grabbed my camera.
Just as luck would have it, a flock of birds flew across the scene, adding some life to the image. I’m really happy with this one!
This image is unaltered, except for being cropped. It was shot through my living room window, in manual mode (which is rare for me to use, but was a lesson learned from my shots of the sun rising over Uluru in Australia). I basically set the aperture and adjusted the metering until the results met my liking. My lesson learned from this shot: I should have used a better lens, like my 70-200L. Oh well, next time… 
Fresh snow covers Lambly Lake near Kelowna, B.C.
The tops of plants stick out of fresh snow in a marshy area next to Lambly Lake, outside Kelowna.
More snowy trees (the last of them) and the surrounding mountains around Big White ski resort, near Kelowna, B.C. We were lucky to get this view as the clouds had been quite low all week.
Clarity and contrast bumped up a bit in Lightroom.
