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photographic pursuits

left in ruins

04.24.2010
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There used to be a beautiful building here, but it was ravaged by a fire some years ago. The facade still intact, but the insides crumbled and charred, the building was boarded off and you could only catch a glimpse of it over the top of the scaffolding. For a while, if you paid attention [...]

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spring in the air (and my step)

03.07.2010
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This blog unintentionally went into hibernation this past winter. I can come up with no real reason for the lack of posts, other than the part of my brain that was dedicated to the creation of new posts on this blog went a little dark for the past few months while I worked on another [...]

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sparkling classics

09.05.2009
sparkling classics

The weather in the week leading up to Symphony Under The Sky had been unusually warm. No one could have predicted that the hottest day of the summer would have fallen in September. Around the city people had been flocking to have their last al fresco experience before fall arrived. I had also been trying [...]

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en plein air

09.04.2009
en plein air

Although it looks ominous outside this morning, I will be braving the elements to attend the evening performance of the Symphony Under the Sky in Hawrelak Park. I always enjoy attending these shows, with the symphony outside of its regular context of the concert hall. The Winspear Centre is an amazing venue, but then so [...]

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predestination

04.20.2009
predestination

I noticed that we had reached that time of night where the apartments we were walking past were lit up like living lightboxes. It was just at that moment before the people inside had realized that the lack of light outside had made it possible to see in past the glass of their balcony doors, [...]

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downtown is deserted

04.14.2009
downtown is deserted

It’s odd to encounter a downtown that is almost entirely deserted. What is it about this city that makes people flee the central hub when the ordinary work week ends? Are we just trying to escape from our jobs? Is out of sight really out of mind? I wonder what brought about this segregation of [...]

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mall rat

03.27.2009
mall rat

Shopping malls can be suffocating places, full of overwhelmed and frenzied people, frustrated with the long lineups, disappointed with the lack of sizes, irritated by the ill-fit of a garment that looked fantastic on the headless mannequin in the front display. Malls are a confusing spectacle, designed to disorient and keep us wandering directionless like a [...]

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night life

03.24.2009
night life

There’s something spectacular about a city at night. It’s as if the city is disguised by the darkness. Artificial light takes over and creates new shapes and silhouettes against the evening sky. In the city city streets people take on different forms. Like the buildings that tower above them their identities are masked and they [...]

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the apartment

01.19.2009
the apartment

Sometimes I wonder what people were thinking when they designed some buildings. Long spans of corridor are broken up by the occasional door and fire hazard door mat. The walls are bare of any sort of art and there is often a worn path in the carpet on the floor. It’s amazing to think of [...]

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