In progress: photos from Toronto’s Coach House Press.
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Category: Photography
Equipment, examples, history – all matters photographic
Mel Cappe
1 Dec 2005 – As Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
12 October 2012 – As a Senior Fellow at Massey College
Massey College Founders’ Gaudy 2012
David Jacobson
I ran into the U.S. ambassador to Canada in the upper library after dinner. I told him that my mother immigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States and became a citizen there, and he suggested we get a photo:
When I told her that she now lives in Vancouver, he asked me to tell her: “Things in America are getting better, and the president is going to win”.
First Massey photos
I have some preliminary photos taken around Massey College on Flickr. You can see them all at once now or watch them appear as photos of the day during the next while.
American kestrel
Macro and drama
New photos:
- Macro photos of flowers, frogs, and insects
- Photos from the Clay and Paper Theatre Company’s “A History of Forgetting”
My friend Janel provided valuable assistance in frog-spotting and reflector-holding, for the creation of the first set.
Commercial portrait tips
Some interesting advice on photographing people from Sara Lando, directed at serious photographers. Much of it is about handling photographic subjects.
Three days in Montreal
My father and I will be in Montreal until Saturday, visiting my brother Sasha.
On the way up from Toronto, we stopped at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. Unfortunately, there are no tours of the main complex. We were able to wander around the general area, as well as visit an information centre.
I put some photos on Flickr. Later, I got some of a ‘casserole’ protest in Montreal, near Rue St. Denis.
Portlands Energy Centre
As part of Doors Open Toronto 2012, my friend Mike and I took a tour of the Portlands Energy Centre: a natural-gas-fired peaker power plant located slightly south and east of downtown Toronto.
This is a combined cycle plant with two gas turbines and a steam turbine. Together, they are about 60% efficient at turning the chemical energy in natural gas into electricity. The plant is a peaker, which means it can be started at reasonably short notice to add power to the grid when demand exceeds supply (summer air conditioning creates Toronto’s highest demand peaks).
The plant puts out 550 megawatts of electricity. The peak temperature inside the gas turbines is about 600˚C, and the output from the steam turbine is at about 80˚C (for all those Carnot efficiency fans out there). Neat fact: steam turbines work on the same principle as hurricanes.
I took about 200 photos inside, and I will be posting the best of them to Flickr once I have processed them.
[Update: 10:21pm] The first few shots are on Flickr: Portlands Energy Centre – Doors Open Toronto.
[Update: 2:25am] Done with all the RAW files. Post-processing takes a lot of time!