{"id":11950,"date":"2014-06-04T05:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11950"},"modified":"2014-06-04T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:08:44","slug":"two-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11950","title":{"rendered":"Two Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wkoopmans-2207\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On my recent visit to Niagara Falls Ontario I really saw two places in an uncumfortable coexistence.\u00a0 There was the bright lights\u00a0and tourist shops and then there was\u00a0gritty part of Niagara\u00a0that\u00a0appeared left behind decades ago.<\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2172\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2159\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There also seemed to be a nearly inexhaustible supply of empty motels and businesses surrounding the city.\u00a0 No longer needed for tourists that aren’t there.<\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2210\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2201\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-7691\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> \"wkoopmans-7707\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To be fair I was there during May not what you would think of as high tourist season but I still think that of those people who were visiting seemed less likely to have arrived in a car and more likely to be staying at one of the larger hotels.\u00a0 I think there lays the difference from the past and why Niagara Falls is a concentration of restaurants and tourist traps around the one true attraction, the falls themselves.<\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-7320\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2086\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"wkoopmans-2090\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> \"wkoopmans-7001\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I will have more photos to share from this trip as I shot\u00a0both film and more digital images.\u00a0 I would have loved to have visited the American side of the falls too. I’m sure I would have discovered yet another visual story.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my recent visit to Niagara Falls Ontario I really saw two places in an uncumfortable coexistence.\u00a0 There was the bright lights\u00a0and tourist shops and then there was\u00a0gritty part of Niagara\u00a0that\u00a0appeared left behind decades ago. There also seemed to be a nearly inexhaustible supply of empty motels and businesses surrounding the city.\u00a0 No longer needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[125,364],"class_list":["post-11950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-photography","tag-digital","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11950"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12575,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11950\/revisions\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}