There’s a culvert I’ve taken to photographing that is quickly becoming my favourite. It’s a continuation of Yellow Creek on the east side of Mount Pleasant Avenue.
Category: Heart
The category, Heart, is for posts that make us feel.
Lloyd Mangal, Poet
When I see someone panhandling, or simply sitting there, obviously homeless, my usual response is no response at all. I stare straight ahead and direct all my energy to reaching a point further along the sidewalk. I pretend there is no hand outstretched, no voice asking if I can spare some change.
Event Photography – Sidgwick Salon
As a rule, I don’t do event photography. I prefer tramping around alone in a landscape (forest/urban/whatever). But every rule has its exceptions.
Photo Flick: Smoke
There are a surprising number of movies in which photography has an important role. Like writers who write novels about novelists, it’s almost as if film-makers need to engage in the same self-reflexive practice.
Guelph, Ontario
Took a walk around Guelph the other day. Was there to pick up my daughter from school, so didn’t have a lot of time. Just used my little mirrorless camera.
Birds: Pretty/Disturbing
But sometimes the natural world defies our expectations. Certainly that was the lesson from a hike through Tommy Thompson Park when I saw something hanging high in a tree. Zooming in, I discovered that it was a cormorant, neck broken, head wedged in a forked branch.
Tommy Thompson Park
One place I like to go when I need to scratch my photographic itch is Tommy Thompson Park on the Leslie Street Spit.
Toronto’s First Frost
Toronto had its first frost on October 12th. But it wasn’t a killing frost and it didn’t happen much of anywhere. In fact, because it was Thanksgiving holiday, most people missed it.
Pastels Are Grossly Underrated
When Love Fades
What does it feel like when love fades?
Bronze Doors
This is the A. E. Gooderham mausoleum in St. James Cemetery. Gooderham was the grandson of William Gooderham, co-founder of Gooderham & Worts, the reason Toronto has its so-called Distillery District.
Nuit Blanche 2014
Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s way of saying yee-haw to the arts — a festival running from sundown to sunup where people wander the streets from exhibit to exhibit.
McLaughlin Planetarium To Be Demolished
According to the Toronto Star, the McLaughlin Planetarium is going to be replaced by a cultural complex owned by the University of Toronto and leased to, among other things, a Jewish Museum.
Macro Shots of Bugs in Dew
I picked up a new macro lens, a 100mm Canon f2.8 whatever, and spent each sunrise last week on the paths behind the Toronto Evergreen Brickworks.
Poem: (M)ass Media Culture(?)
My cultural moment came and went. Now the useless pendant chafes my neck, brings to mind remaindered analytic books whose theses chased the waddling ass that lapped me on the straight-away. I let it pass and listened to their twaddle. The blubbering cheeks squidge on. Their route? I couldn’t say. There was an instant, back…