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Category: Photography, USA
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Canon A80
I loved the atmospheric cloud clusters over New York City that day. I took hardly any photos for some reason, this is one of the few.
Archive for October 21st, 2006
21
Oct
2006
About Town
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Category: Out + About, cameraphone
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Taken on the way to work:
When I’m in a hurry, the Nokia 6682 cameraphone does pretty well. There’s nothing wrong with pointing and shooting, as long as you’ve got something fairly reliable to point and shoot with. It’s been said before that the best camera you can have is the one you’ve got with you.
Later on, in the evening:
There’s always some hustle and bustle around Chinatown at night — people milling around, shopkeepers packing up their wares, students escaping from their books. The streetcars run frequently along Spadina, offering many opportunities for capturing people in various states of motion if that’s what tickles your photographic fancy. Or, even odd-looking, lit-up static objects if you don’t want to bother with timing.
I’ve committed to memory most of the major thoroughfares in Toronto running east-west and north-south from the city centre, but there’s an abundance of short streets in the city that I have yet to memorise. Lots of them only run for a block or two, some (Temperance Street comes to mind) look more like glorified alleyways. When walking down the main streets I like to peer into the alleys and check out the graffiti, but just to shoot from afar, not to disturb the rats or whatever else may be lurking in the shadows.
21
Oct
2006
Random BBC
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Category: Humour, Linkage
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My homepage in Safari is set on BBC, and there are occasionally some pretty wacky articles that catch my skimming eye. “The BBC? Wacky?” you say? Oh, yeah! I’ve saved these links in draft for ages — they’ll dry up and disappear if I don’t let them loose asap.
Denmark ‘happiest place on earth’
If it is happiness you are seeking a move to Denmark could be in order, according to the first scientist to make a world map of happiness.
Check this one out:
‘Goat-free roads made me speed’
A Swiss man caught speeding on a Canadian highway has blamed his actions on the absence of goats on the roads.
After driving 2,600 kilometres around Switzerland in a rental car in 2003, I think I missed the goat action when I got home, too. (“I couldn’t help myself, officer! There were no goats!”) And roadside cows, although I see them occasionally along the New York Thruway, too.
Panasonic DMC-FZ1
And one last link, with a photo that instantly reminded me of Mike Meyers’ Saturday Night Live parodies of the Brits:
Plastic pill to fight gum disease
“US scientists have developed a tiny plastic pill that they say can prevent tooth loss by treating gum disease.”
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