I arrived home from Quebec City in the wee hours, tired after 8+ hours of driving but very — very — grateful that I was able to get five of us there and back without any car trouble at all. The whole story about the car can be found here.
I have a lot of photos (natch), but after late nights, packing around a bag full of equipment in hot weather (it got up to almost 30C!) up and down the hilly terrain of Quebec City’s Old Town, plus all the driving, work today, and a wedding client meeting right after, I’ve lost track of where one day finishes and the next begins.
But Quebec City is as charming as ever, and I’m glad I went! I’ve got a few stories from the weekend, but photos are what you came for, right? Working on that…
The painter in the Old Town vaguely reminded me of Montmartre in Paris. I also tried to position myself to capture the girl sitting in the window to the left of the painter. Little did she know, the girl on the right balanced the photo out nicely.
And here’s something unusual these days: self-portraits with a tripod. In Quebec I stayed at a friend’s house while he was in Europe. He’d bought a lot of photographic equipment since my last visit and set up a studio in the basement. I picked up the first prop I could find (this big white floppy hat) and took a bunch of self-portraits with my flash mounted camera left at 1/10th power through a white umbrella. I also took some really goofy ones and printed them out with my portable photo printer… he should get a kick out of those. I’ll post the goofy ones later, after I try and catch up on the backlog.
