2009-09-27

(939) Whatever

I don't know which is hardest for me to imagine a world without: cars, PovertyMart™, or Helvetica.

Notice how the distinctive little tail on the R really doesn't work for this sign...

2009-09-20

(938) Tension and Dark

I've been in a contemplative mood recently.

I decided to remove the watermarks from this and the previous photo. For one thing, I think it would spoil the balance and structure of the images; and besides, who's going to be ripping these ones off?

2009-09-19

Fence and Dark

In the spirit of Edgar Nye and Mark Twain, I hope that someday someone will quip that my photographs are better than they look.

2009-09-14

(937) Birds

Those who know me will have no doubt that this is exactly the photo that I wanted.

2009-09-09

Showboating

Blue Angels #3.

2009-09-08

Blue Angels 1 & 2

Although it's been twenty-six years since the Blue Angels flew over Toronto - I was nine - I distinctly remember smaller, faster planes.

Budget cuts?
Safety considerations?

...but no, the Navy just wanted the Marines to get there first. Four F/A-18's on a flyby almost directly overhead.

(Neither of these photos have been cropped.)

2009-09-07

(936) Plywood

This bleached wood is attached to a roadside crash barrier at the end of a park road that I'd always ridden past.

This photo was a trick question for my camera - it's much brighter than the average scene and I wanted to see how it would meter the exposure. The D700 nailed it: I actually had to darken the photo slightly in post. It's not supposed to be able to do that.

(This is the first time I'm posting a 'Weekly Photo' on a Monday, but with working an extra shift and having a holiday, it's still a sunday to me.)

2009-09-04

Back to School

The neighbourhood is filling up with university students again.

I have broken the links to hundreds and hundreds of photos, which will take a long time to repair. The workaround is to replace "photo.matthewpiers" in the link URL with "matthewpiers.smugmug". Awkward, but only temporary.

This is happening because I have revamped matthewpiers dot com. More of what I write and photograph will be going there, so check it out as well.

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