Heat

Thinking warm thoughts.

Partially demolished building, Queen Street West

Brown Grass and a Deep Blue Sky

Blue skies look black in infrared.

the Music Garden

Machine Age

An old favourite that somehow never made it here.

the Brickworks

Wrath

I posted an earlier version of this image six weeks ago, and it remains one of my favourites. It's probably my most divisive. It seems like the viewers who don't like it dismiss it immediately, but the people who like it have all given it a second look.

... so here it is again.

the Bathurst Street bridge

Eyes

at the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Grass

the Music Garden

Below the Water

Cichlids, a favourite fish for freshwater aquariums.

African pavilion, the Toronto Zoo

Elephant Autumn

Reading Kim Echlin's novel Elephant Winter renewed my sense of awe for these magnificent animals.

African Elephant, the Toronto Zoo

Please Do Not Cross

No kidding.

Siberian Tiger, the Toronto Zoo

Please Do Not Feed

Pigeons are a bunch of ugly, arrogant, lazy birds with no redeeming value. They get so fat that they lose the ability to fly more than a few flaps, and resort to walking from place to place.

Gulls are okay.
Gulls can actually fly.

Small

Even big things can be small.

Bathurst Street Bridge

Pretty

It's been almost a year since I posted a photo with autumnal trees.

A small town about an hour north of Toronto.

Vineyard

Peller Estates, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Brollies #2

Umbrellas on Spadina avenue.

Brollies

Spadina Avenue

Uglify

While the City of Toronto has also done its part to make the city ugly for the sake of advertising revenues, nothing looks quite as bad as the results of 'postering'.

the Fashion district

Back Alley Philosophy

Eventually Insight leads to Discovery.

It's lucky for my sense of humour that this truck doesn't fit in its garage.

West of Queen Street West

Minolta, Stopped

A pair of photographers - using Nikon cameras - outside the Toronto office of Konica-Minolta.

Effective October 1, 2005, K-M has withdrawn from the Canadian market. As an Olympus dSLR user, I'm disappointed to see one less alternative to Canon and Nikon on the store shelves. They take an interesting anti-shake technology and a number of excellent cameras with them as they leave.

Feathering

Narrow depth of field at 150mm (4/3) using f4.5.
This image has had very minimal selective sharpening, owing to iso800 noise, and no blur or noise reduction to soften it.

Sitting

One of the most important things that I've learned as a photographer is to simply slow down.

Trinity Square.