I'm always looking for techniques that let me produce good looking images under poor lighting conditions, and of course, the mid-day sun is a well known "killer" shooting condition.
This shot of the Dominion Arbouretum from the other side of the Rideau Canal was taken at around 11:30 in the morning; hardly the ideal time of day for this type of landscape shot.
The clouds and contrails from aircraft heading towards Toronto seem to point at the trees. The leaves and blossoms have just really come out and are still that brilliant light green colour, that fades so quickly. I was trying to divide the image in thirds; the foreground third is the water in the canal, the middle third is the bridge and the trees and the upper (background third) is the sky. I probably should have cropped a bit of the foreground, but did not.