A poem inspired by my neighbour’s sexual prowess and the feelings of inadequacy it engenders.
Category: Heart
The category, Heart, is for posts that make us feel.
First Snowfall Toronto Dec 11 2014
Toronto had its first decent snowfall of the 14/15 winter season. Although not the first snowfall, it was the first to screw up traffic and require snow removal equipment.
Christmas Stalking
‘Tis the season for my Christmas stalking i.e. wandering around malls and shops and photographing people as they do whatever they do to mark this time of year.
At Home With The Homeless
A couple years ago, my wife and I sold our house in the suburbs and rented a condo downtown. It was an experiment. We wanted to test a different lifestyle. More evenings out. More amenities. More walking. Less cars. Less big box stores. Less cocooning.
Graffiti on Railway Tracks
These shots come from the abandoned rail tracks that run northwest by the Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto
Love Bot Street Art
Last year, concrete robots invaded Toronto. You can read about the invasion here. The one shown below can be found on Church Street in the Village: The concrete invasion was followed by a sticker invasion. They’re everywhere. They’re even springing up on the pavement, although these ones don’t have hearts. Maybe, with all the tires…
Perspective in Street Photography
One of the brilliant things about street photography is that the backgrounds (streets, buildings, sidewalks) provide long perspectives. Here are a few shots that try to take advantage of that:
Tack Sharp or Blurred?
Blurring can imply motion, action, chaos; it can produce a mood; it can evoke feelings of nostalgia.
More Street Photography
Another debate, when shooting street photography, is whether to be obvious or discreet. Sometimes, the answer is determined by legal considerations. For example, where a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy, the general rule of thumb is that no permission is required.
Tracking a Buck in Midtown Toronto
I vacillate between wilderness and city, between landscape and street, between wildlife and urban living. I think most of us experience a consciousness divided between the natural world and our cultural accumulations, between innocence and experience, heart and mind. I take my camera into that divide to see what it reveals.
Photo Flick: Fur
Fur is an imaginary riff on the life of Diane Arbus, who has come to be known as a photographer of freaks. That description might be a bit caricatured, but that’s what it comes down to.
St. James Cemetery in the Rain
Photography in the rain is a pain the ass. Water on the lens can wreck the shot. Water in the lens can wreck the lens. And yet rain produces reflective surfaces.
Fall Colours – St. James Cemetery
In Toronto, it can be easy to overlook the change of colours if you spend a lot of time in the downtown core, or walking through the PATH, or commuting by subway. An antidote to all the concrete is a walk through a cemetery.
Birds Migrating South
This fall, I observe different species of birds passing through the Toronto Brickworks. First, I saw finches: Then the American tree sparrows: It’s not like the birds book a reservation in the quarry. There’s plenty of overlap as one species checks in and another checks out. Here’s a common starling: Over the past week, I’ve…
Fall Colours
In Toronto, the leaves have pretty much turned and a good portion have fallen. The colours peaked and now begins the drear November.