Lakefill

I've been going to the Leslie Street Spit for a decade. Officially known as Tommy Thompson Park, it's a nature reserve that's open to the public on the weekends, but during the week it's the city's tipping site for construction waste. It's the largest of the infill projects that have reshaped the waterfront.

The side of the spit that faces the city is covered with trees and is home to a massive colony of gulls. The side that I like faces the lake, and it's a sculpted environment of brick beaches, tangled rebar, and stacked concrete hydro poles.

Conceived and photographed as a series, the "Lakefill" photos on white is the first significant personal project in eighteen months that I've captured with a digital camera. Taken with a manual-focus shift lens, many of these photos combine two or three frames for the best possible reproduction quality. While the series is not yet complete, my eventual goal is to have a gallery or book presentation for these photographs.