Brant Street Pier is a signature destination and attraction located in Spencer Smith Park at the Waterfront at Downtown Burlington. It extends 137 metres over Lake Ontario that provides views of the lake and Burlington's shoreline. It officially opened during the Sound of Music Festival in Spencer Smith Park on the Father's Day weekend of June 2013.
The S-shaped pier is 137 metres long and about 7.5 metres wide along the span or deck. It features a walkway and lighted lookout tower elevated four meters above the deck. The lookout tower or the raised platform, accessible by a circular staircase, is located on the fifth span of the deck (a circular node with a diameter of 20m). This raised platform also supports a 12-metre beacon made of tubular structural steel framing on the center.
I took this shot at sunrise and was thus able to capture the beautiful golden yellow glow of the sun in the clear skies.
I shot this in manual mode and had the shutter open for about 90 seconds as I had to get enough light in the foreground as I had a Lee 10 stop neutral density filter on the lens to reduce the very bright sunlight from blowing out the picture.
The awesome benefit to this is that clouds and sky turned out so smooth and silky!