Flickr user Agatha Barc has some albums of historical postcards of Toronto and the University of Toronto. To me, they provide the contrasting thrills of seeing buildings that look just as they do today and seeing whole areas (like around city hall) that are now unrecognizable.
Category: Photography
Equipment, examples, history – all matters photographic
Choir photos
Yesterday I photographed the Opus 8 choir at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church: Opus 8 choir at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church
Commonality of photography and cartography
Don Valley bonfire
My friend Tristan arranged a group bonfire at a scenic spot in the Don Valley. We did a little light painting.
Ripley’s aquarium Toronto
I got some photos of the many creatures at the aquarium — including green sea turtles which I saw up close for the first time.
Nikon leaving the dSLR business
In a surprising if not shocking move, Nikon has announced that they will stop making new digital single lens reflex (dSLR) cameras. It’s shocking to me because ever since digital cameras have existed, Nikon dSLRs have been considered among the best by professional photographers. They’re even used on the International Space Station, where shipping anything up from Earth is so costly that there’s no reason to send anything but the best, not to mention how great photos have always been a key means of outreach for the space program.
NATO honours Jean Chretien
In my first commercial gig in a while, I photographed a NATO Association event with former Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en against the Royal Bank of Canada
Yesterday I photographed a rally outside RBC headquarters, protesting their financing of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.
The measure of whether businesses and governments care about climate change is their actions, not the sympathetic statements invented for their advertising and media relations. We can never build our way out of the climate crisis with huge new long-term investments in fossil fuels.
Birds are beautiful
The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards feature some remarkable work. The video of a red tailed hawk soaring in the wind with its head uncannily unmoving is impressive, as doubtless is the dedication of all the people who took these shots.
Lego ISS
