Larger Pieces

Sometimes I get ahead of myself: I picked up the "standard" brick and thought that it could be my lead photo for the project. (There are a few steps between here and there that I haven't quite done yet. Like decide on the format, lighting, and actually take some pictures.)

I don't know the significance of the F Price brick versus the much more common J Price marking; it's a phrase that has proven remarkably resistant to Google. In fact, there's a surprising lack of information about old bricks and their markings, so it's a bit of a history project ahead of me, not just a photographic one.

Small and Worn

I don't have an accurate count of the number of bits and pieces that I've collected from the Spit. I photographed two dozen in the afternoon that produced all of these photos, but skipped a number of the smaller bits. And there's the very good chance that I'll pick up a few more bricks before I'm done.

Scrap Metal

In addition to the abundant brick and concrete, there's a small amount of scrap metal on the Spit as well. Rebar, electrical conduits and junction boxes, and thin sheet makes up most of it, but occasionally there are small and photogenic pieces as well.

Half Price Brick

Somebody was bound to make the joke, so it might as well be me.

These are just quick edits of quick photos. I've been collecting interesting bricks from the Spit for the past several months, and decided to take a few hours and sort through them today. Even though I wasn't trying to, I learned a trick or two that I'll be able to use when I'm setting up the lighting for my next round.

Left or Right

This photo is likely to be only the second one that I've ever printed from my little Canon S100, out of 2777 photos taken with it to date. The first photo that I printed was actually a panorama stitched from eight or ten images, so I'm not quite sure how to score that one. My TS3 has taken 6370 photos, and I've printed none of them.

A much more lightly edited version of this photo is on my Five Thousand Photos blog.

Garrison and Gardiner

This is where Garrison Road crosses under the Gardiner Expressway. There aren't many places in Toronto where bridges are layered over each other, but there was once a rail line that passed under here. This is the same spur that ran under the Bathurst street bridge, which was a common photo subject for me up until five years ago. Residential towers have replaced the old industrial sites, and I rarely visit any more.

The wooden bracing in the second photo is there because the concrete of the expressway is crumbling.
It was just one more reason to spend all of my time looking up.

Bright Lights