Thanks for popping by to view my photos. I’m just an amateur photographer, but I’m having fun figuring it out, and that’s what really matters, right? Hope you enjoy some of my favourite pics of whatever. And if you have a moment, feel free to drop me a line. All photos taken with a Panasonic LZ2 point & shoot 5 meg digital camera.
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Here are two view of the St. Lawrence Market. With the first I’m standing on the north/east corner of Jarvis St. & Front St. facing south/west. In the second I’m standing on the centre median at Church St. facing east. I guess only people who live in Toronto will give a crap where I was standing, and even then not so much, right? 
I was really excited at the news of Canon’s new flagship advanced point & shoot camera, the PowerShot G11. One surprising move from Canon was to back off the megapixel race, going from 14+ megapixels on the G10 to a mere 10 megapixels on the new G11. The idea is that less pixels on such a small sensor would give them room to improve on sensitivity and low light performance. Sounds good to me. They also added an articulating high-res LCD screen–a total score, in my opinion. If you’re looking for a companion to your larger DSLR, this is a nice ride indeed. On the downside, at 28m/F2.8, the lens isn’t as wide or fast as its competitors (the Panasonic LX3 is 24mm/F2.0).
Today dpreview.com has just posted their 21 page review of this badboy. including sample photos. Definitely worth checking out. Click here to read the review in full.
These trees, located in the parkette behind the Gooderham Building (a.k.a the Flatiron Building) in downtown Toronto, seem pretty seem pretty ominous to me, although the folks lunching on the wall in front of them don’t appear too concerned.
The Ghost of St. Lawrence Hall! Okay, not so much. These soldiers were standing guard and very motionless, as you can tell from my photo, since it was a long shutter speed. The woman entering the establishment, on the other hand, was in motion, which shows up as a ghostly blur in the photo. The trials and tribulations of night photography, I suppose.
I shot this photo a week or so back before the weather got really chilly. It’s the TTC bus barns on Comstock Rd. in Scarborough. I like the lines and the sky in the background. Hope you like it, too.
Here’s a photo of another old wreck down at the Distillery District. I played with the colour and contrast, adding a sepia tone effect and then dialling back on the orange. Hope you like it.
Here’s another photo from my trip downtown a while back. I tend to like the lines of tall buildings, especially on narrow streets, which tends to give them a greater sense of height. I was going to wait until Wednesday to post this, since it’s a black & white, oh well…
I volunteered to try my hand at product photography for a friend who is starting a new promotional products business. I think it came out not bad, considering I don’t know much about lighting and don’t have the proper gear for such work. I know where the lighting could use improvement, but this will have to do for now. Considering the price (free), he can’t really complain, right? It’s just for a website. What do you think?
45 years ago tomorrow our Parliament, under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, and after much heated debate, approved a newly designed Canadian flag. The red maple leaf design is credited to George F. G. Stanley and John Matheson. It replaced the Union Jack, which had been in place since the late 1890s. The new flag first appeared three months later on February 15th, 1965, a date we now celebrate as National Flag of Canada Day. Feel free to send me an expensive gift, if you like. 
As for the photo, it’s from the Distillery District and since it’s topped with our lovely flag I thought I’d post it today.
Hope y’all had a nice weekend. Mine was pretty quiet, although I did get out Saturday and met up with some friends. It’s funny how as you get older time seems to fly by. Every weekend seems like the last and I can’t recall the last time I did anything new and exciting — except for photography outings, but even those aren’t all the exciting. The one thing photography has helped me with, I will say, is I’ve opened my eyes to my surroundings again. When I was in my 20s I used to take long walks and really look at stuff and think about all sorts of things. But life got busy and that habit fell to the wayside. Now I’ve gotten it back to some extent. Anyway, enough babbling.
Although the title of this post suggests a sunrise, it’s actually a sunset. But for our purposes we’ll pretend it’s a sunrise. Hope you like it.
