I had a great Saturday, volunteering during the day and spending the evening at a friend’s house, eating excellent food and enjoying everyone’s company. A fun evening that didn’t end until 3am! So when I woke up this morning and looked up at a skylight filled with blue sky, I knew the best way to top off this weekend would be to shoot outside. It was just a matter of deciding where to shoot.
I really miss living by the ocean (Vancouver’s Olympic news footage backdropped by the ocean and mountains is making me verklempt!), but living by Lake Ontario brings similar feelings of tranquility, as mass bodies of water tend to do. I’ve lived inland before — Winnipeg, Banff, Canberra, Scranton, to name a few places — but I always found myself drawn to the water’s edge.
Last winter when I shot the Irish Famine Memorial it was cold and windy and probably 20 degrees lower. This afternoon it was mercifully sunny and without wind, but I was glad to have brought my glove-mittens, which I use to shoot because they keep my hands warm while leaving my fingers free to control the camera settings.
I started off in the park across the street from the main gate to the CNE, walking east along the municipal marina, by the ferry to City Centre Airport, continuing to the Irish Famine Memorial. There were plenty of joggers, but not many people strolling about. A few photographers, natch. The weather couldn’t be better!
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Video for today: Roch Voisine performing “Helene” live in the ’80s. [official site] I had a crush on him growing up, along with thousands of other young Canadian girls. (See why.) Voisine is from New Brunswick, a bilingual singer-songwriter who is probably more famous in francophone Canada even though he has music in both English and French. I was listening to an interview with him on CBC earlier, and he’s currently doing a stint as an Olympic hockey sportscaster for a station in France! Apparently Voisine had his sights set on becoming a hockey player until an injury ended that dream. Even though he’s known as a musician, I suppose people in France consider him enough of an authority on hockey to be a commentator for them. There you go: diversify your skills and life will become much more interesting…