Spring is in the air

Canon Rebel XT | 44mm | 1/100 sec | f/5 | ISO-100 |

Smell the flowers?
2:30 p.m.

High Park

Canon Rebel XT | 18mm | 1/40 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |

Although he was sick Saturday afternoon, Minh was tough enough to join me for a stroll through High Park, where we both used to run during our high school cross-country years. We came across a zoo that neither of us knew existed there.


Canon Rebel XT | 300mm | 1/200 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |



Canon Rebel XT | 70mm | 1/2000 sec | f/4 | ISO-100 |



Canon Rebel XT | 260mm | 1/125 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |

Where's Xzibit to pimp this ride?

Canon Rebel XT | 18mm | 1/20 sec | f/13 | ISO-100 |



Canon Rebel XT | 27mm | 1/30 sec | f/13 | ISO-100 |

An elderly fella stopped his red pickup while I was taking these pictures and asked if I was taking it for a paper. I said it was just for my blog, and he told me the truck is his, and that he would be buying a new front to it this Monday.

He was a very nice man but I was very suspicious because this stretch of Logan has long been a dumping ground for old vehicles. Anyways, his last words to me: "Don't call the cops on me. That's my truck." Hahaha...

Logan Avenue, between Dundas and Gerrard
10:54 a.m.

Why so grey eh?

Yup... time for a makeover... to match the site's maker... hahaha!

Don Valley Parkway on a gloomy overcast day.


Canon Rebel XT | 210mm | 1/400 sec | f/5 | ISO-400 |

Composition could have been much better but my fingers were getting cold.
3:27 p.m.

Riverdale Park

Canon Rebel XT | 18mm | 1/1600 sec | f/4 | ISO-400 |



Canon Rebel XT | 70mm | 1/200 sec | f/4 | ISO-400 |

Need a lift, pilgrim?

Canon Rebel XT | 18mm | 1/40 sec | f/7.5 | ISO-400 |


This is taken from the sidecar of my classmate John Harper's Ural. It's quite the chick magnet... he was going to drive me home from George Brown, and as I was settling into the sidecar - camera in hand - and even before we'd moved an inch, we heard a commotion behind us. It was three girls ooh-ing the bike (or maybe they were ooh-ing him, or, as I like to think of it, maybe they were ooh-ing me). Then they posed.

Yah.

Turning onto Gerrard Street East from River Street.
8:00 p.m.

Canon Rebel XT | 90mm | 1/30 sec | f/4.5 | ISO-100 |

That's Jimmy... we were enjoying a java @ Tango Palace Sunday when I got up, asked him to look at the playground and pose while I snapped away.
6:12 p.m.

Happy Easter!

Canon Rebel XT | 85mm | 1/40 sec | f/7.1 | ISO-100 |

Somewhere on Pape Avenue between Dundas and Queen.
4:15 p.m.

Harbourfront

Spent a sunny Saturday afternoon down by the city's waterfront.

What's this about phallic symbols?

Canon Rebel XT | 22mm | 1/80 sec | f/20 | ISO-100 |


This man stood in this position for five seconds... I didn't like his pose but I got impatient so I snapped away.

Canon Rebel XT | 55mm | 1/800 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |


The lighting inside the Harbourfront Centre made this one easy.

Canon Rebel XT | 38mm | 1/40 sec | f/5 | ISO-400 |


I was lucky the woman was wearing a white coat, because I think that's what makes this shot.

Canon Rebel XT | 70mm | 1/1000 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |


People walk back and forth in that green thing... see if you can spot one!

Canon Rebel XT | 70mm | 1/1600 sec | f/4 | ISO-100 |


This is right on Front Street... from the ground the wall of this condo looks like a Matrix explosion.

Canon Rebel XT | 70mm | 1/160 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |


Looking west of the city through a boat from a pier at Harbourfront.

Canon Rebel XT | 120mm | 1/1600 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |

Feeding time

Mid afternoon, Nathan Phillips Square, where lovers, families and tourists gather to enjoy some early springtime sunshine and share fatty foods with the birds.

In other words, a perfect picture place.

Where there's food, there are fights...

Canon Rebel XT | 48mm | 1/4000 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |



Canon Rebel XT | 48mm | 1/4000 sec | f/5.6 | ISO-100 |


Is that for me?

Canon Rebel XT | 55mm | 1/400 sec | f/7.1 | ISO-100 |


Off in search of dessert.

Canon Rebel XT | 31mm | 1/4000 sec | f/4.5 | ISO-100 |

Canon Rebel XT | 30mm | 1/320 sec | f/7.1 | ISO-100 |
Nathan Phillips Square
3:44 p.m.

Canon Rebel XT | 18mm | 1/2 sec | f/22 | ISO-1600 |
Timer/tripod.
Floor 11, room 268, Royal York Hotel
11:54 p.m.

*sigh*
Another totally crappy setup.
I was so focussed on getting the framing right that I didn't realize the ISO was at 1600.
I blame it on the crappy hotel air.

Marge... that woman's bum is looking at me!!!

PENTAX Optio S5i | 10mm | 1/60 sec | f/3.5 | ISO-100 |
41C Keele bus... somewhere north of Eglinton
5:47 p.m.

The woman on the left had Homer on one side and some pre-school kid on the other. My jaw dropped as I sat down and saw this because I thought it would have made such a beautiful shot. Of course, this being a 3/4 full bus, I was too chicken to ask for a shot of all three.

I pulled my tiny Optio out anyways and tried sneaking a pic of just Homer... but because I was facing west in the late afternoon the sunlight shining into the lens made the image far too bright to do anything.

After a few blocks fidgeting with my thumbs, I saw the woman begin to gather her stuff together. Cussing to myself, I scrambled to sneak just one single shot in, and just as I clicked the shutter the woman holding the yellow bag got up, adding much needed movement, at the same time the bus went into the shadow of a building... taking care of the lighting.

Viola!

For context, here is the shot I took a split second afterwards.


PENTAX Optio S5i | 10mm | 1/60 sec | f/3.5 | ISO-100 |

Canon Rebel XT | 45mm | 1/1250 sec | f/7.1 | ISO-400 |
Somewhere in Mississauga
7:56 a.m.

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's DARK!

Canon Rebel XT | 55mm | 25 sec | f/36 | ISO-1600 | 0 step
Hawkedon Crescent
8:53 p.m.

I got the aperture numbers confused (rookie!) and used the smallest opening. Next time I'll use the largest and lower the ISO.
8:53 p.m.

Is this vigilante justice or what?

Canon Rebel XT | 55mm | 1/30 sec | f/18 | ISO-100 | +0.3 step
Beecroft and Park Home Ave. in the North York Centre area.
10:51 a.m.

Beginning with this entry I'm going to be a pro photog wannabe and make my pictures using some of the skills learned in my digital photography class, and provide details.

Thanks for your audience.

Can you tell me where I can find the drycleaners?

That ghetto mall at Carlaw and Gerrard.
10:44 a.m.