This year, Victoria Day fireworks were presented on Sunday, May 23rd at Ontario Place. I picked a vantage point at the east end of Coronation Park, a setting that provided a foreground of silhoutted sailboats and colorful reflections on the surface of the water to accent and give context to the fireworks display taking place in the sky above.
Worked up an appetite shooting around Nathan Philips Square…
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New fountains near Osgoode Hall (Roy McMurtry Garden)
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Like I said in my earlier post, Cranes Over College, condo development is widespread across Toronto. College St, King St, Queen St, Yonge St, neighbourhood after neighbourhood has condos under construction.
The first 2 images are views of one of four large scale luxury hotel / condo projects going up in Toronto over the next few years, the Ritz-Carlton, located on the south side of Wellington St W at the corner of John St.
The other 3 images feature the crane busy on the site of the Queen and Portland development on Queen St W at Portland.
Toronto is a city of condo development. I don’t know why, or whether it is good or bad. The cranes are everywhere, towering over neighbourhoods that previously only had faraway views of the CN Tower to make them feel small. They make me think of Half Life 2 or War of the Worlds for the long legged machines that stride over the buildings below.
This crane is building Cube Lofts in “Little Italy.” Very nice.
Crane Over College
The Toronto Shooters Club had another great photo walk this past Monday, April 26. This time out, the gang explored Yorkville. Among the many inspiring subjects were urban scenes, architecture, sculpture, people and pets. You can see my set in my Flickr photostream.
As the photo walk drew towards a close, I realized that we were soon to be in for a decent sunset and started to wonder where I could get to in time that might be worth setting up the tripod and trying for an HDR of the spring sunset. I remembered having recently walked from Castle Frank Station along Bloor Street toward Parliament Street.
Although many may not realize it, that stretch of Bloor is on a bridge which spans the Rosedale Valley and the Rosedale Valley Road. Living in Toronto, we think of Bloor Street as running east/west, which it mostly does, but here it actually runs from northeast to southwest. So, stopping halfway along, you can look almost due west straight along the valley with the road running down the middle. As an added bonus, the subway also crosses the valley on a bridge, and, it’s covered, and curves gently from southwesterly to westerly as you look towards the west. Anyway, that’s a lot of words, you probably already skipped ahead to see all of this in the fairly successful HDR I managed to make from the view. Hope you like it.
Rosedale Valley Road Sunset
Friday, August 14, 2009. Ossington Avenue. The 6th Anniversary of the northeastern blackout of 2003. This was an exciting event and a lot of fun to photograph. As Michael, from Streets Are For People, described in his Facebook event posting,
If you missed it, or if you didn’t, I hope you enjoy the photos I made of the event – the fire dancers were awesome!! You can view a gallery of all 75 photos, or quickly review highlights by clicking on the thumbnails below:
