This apartment building is located across the street from where I parked one day when downtown shooting street stuff. It’s near Dundas St. & Church St. There are a couple of cheap parking spots in that area so I tend to park there when going downtown. Can you see the little “bump” sign?

I saw this seagull standing on a pole with the CN Tower in the background and figured it would make a neat photo. I think it came out nice. Hope you like it. Happy Tuesday.

This photo goes back a few weeks. I think I was out by myself that day. Whenever I get the chance I like to try than pan and blur effect. The secret is to get good focus on your subject while still managing to blur out the surrounding area. This is one of the better ones I’ve taken. The front of the bus is pretty sharp. Hope you like it.

Here’s another photo from my outing with the Toronto Photo Walks group. This is one of the main alleys in Toronto’s west end (east of Spadina, south of Queen St). You can see some of the others from the group in the distance.

One of my favorite underground photographers.

I really like his high contrast, stark black and white photo’s. Mel D. Cole posts regularly to his blog VillageSlum and HighSnobiety. Working predominantly in New York’s Tri-State Area, he takes pics at concerts, events, jumpies ( parties) on the street and sometimes in studios. He started taking pics at a tender age of 29ish. It all started at a show at SOBs in NYC during the Electric Circus days, with a lil Rite-Aide disposable camera! It took him about 4 more years to buckle down and get a real camera. Now he uses a Canon 40 and a 50 and shoots the some of the highest profile stars in the games.

Contact: contact@villageslum.com

“But just know what you are getting yourself into 1st.
I am not some slack rocking, tie wearing, boring ass photog dude.”

“I am a beer drinking, moving and shaking, fun having, getting the shot no matter what while sweating dumb hard in the summer or winter, tattoo having, woman loving, hard working pic taking photog.”

via Music 1 : MelDCole.com.

This is actually a close up photo of a pile of fencing stack up behind Toronto City.

Back during the India Independence Day celebrations here in Toronto there was a band playing India style music at Dundas Square. Everyone was dancing away and having a grand ol’ time. I noticed this one guy really shaking his booty. The funny thing was, he was pretty much dancing alone at that point. But he didn’t care. When he saw me he decided to put on a show for the camera. I got a few nice shots and had a hard time picking but in the end it was this one I liked most. Hope you like it too.

Here’s another photo of the beach from last Thursday evening. This was taken pretty much at the foot of Fernwood Park Ave., the street I grew up on. I never realized how luck I was at the time to have the beach and Lake Ontario at my doorstep. Me and my friends used to play down there all the time. The tree at the bottom of our street that we used to climb is still standing tall. That seems like a lifetime ago.

The Panasonic Lumix GF1

Each time I see Hiroshi Fujiwara, he has a new digital camera, cooler than the previous one! This is a  long-overdue camera type — top image quality from a compact form.

This 12-megapixel Micro Four Thirds camera is, in effect, a DSLR in a compact body. There is an ingeniously articulated pop-up flash and a low-light focus-assist lamp. Movie mode is 1280 x 720, which is not full high definition but very good.solved the problem of auto-focus speed in a compact camera using the contrast detect method. Images are sharp with excellent contrast. Image quality, in either raw or JPEG, is gorgeous.