Quote:Yes, those are the parliment buildings in Ottawa. The view is looking south from over the Ottawa river, or possibly Gatineau depending on the zoom Rob was using.We were 1500 feet above the north shore of the Ottawa River when I took that one, so I guess you could say we were over Gatineau. My cropping this from a 10-megapixel image makes it look like we were closer.
Yes, they are the Parliament Buildings, on Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa. They're Canada's equivalent to the Capitol Building in Washington (which, I understand, you aren't allowed to get this close to in an aircraft). You can also see the north end of the Rideau Canal (oldest still-functional canal of its type in the world) in the lower-left corner of the image, and the Bytown Museum (Ottawa's oldest stone building) between the canal and The Hill.
(Do people think I set the bar too high with this one? C'mon, folks, share your photos, please...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012