I doubt there is another city of comparable size in the U.S. as portrait-friendly as Philadelphia. People actually LIKE having their photo taken there.
These guys spotted me in the alley near the Magic Gardens and asked me to take their picture. I ran out of Moo mini-cards, so I had to just tell them [...]

I couldn’t resist processing and posting two of my favourite shots from the weekend before finally hitting the sack. First of all, the golden hour on Sunday evening was incredible — I couldn’t stop shooting backlit pictures like this one on South Street:

Here’s a typical tourist shot of the back of the Philadelphia Museum of [...]

I’ve processed and uploaded a batch of photos from Uncle Mat’s memorial service. (I’m about halfway through the ones I selected for upload, so if you check back later, there will likely be more.)
The photo album of the memorial can be viewed several ways:

as thumbnails
a slideshow
or in the Pictobrowser below. Just click on the picture [...]

Today my uncle’s memorial took place in the outskirts of Chicago and resembled a family reunion, as these occasions tend to do. Last time I’d been to Chicago was a spontaneous trip at the end of 1999 (I woke up on December 24 and decided to fly the next day), when my uncle was still [...]

My cousin’s boys, super cute and smart enough to type their own names under their photo in Flickr. The two-year old needed only a bit of help: I sounded out the letters and he pressed the correct letters on the iPod Touch.

I got lucky today — the flight before and after mine got cancelled. My flight was the only one bound for Chicago that left Toronto tonight, albeit two hours late.

An ambitious nomad, spotted in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Maybe his goal for today is to eat, and tomorrow it’s world peace. Some things can wait until tomorrow, right?
Me, I’m on a steady diet of Ricola (green tea with echinacea), orange juice, and whatever I can pull out of the fridge and eat without cooking. Last [...]