This is lovely. I was just into Ottawa to a camera shop today and got a lesson on taking photos with my camera at night. I haven't had good luck so far. Tonight my tripod, camera and I will head outside and do some practice shots. I'd love to have some results like this.
I never use a tripod, h43 but I have two of them. If you upgrade the iso settings it will give you a faster shutter speed as well, this will help to elminnate camera shake without a tripod.