On Saturday (November 24), 3 photographer friends from the Residue Group (link no longer is valid), Peter Brickell, Rimma Skeini, Kevin McBride, and I accepted an invitation to photograph the Harvey Woods Building on Vansittart Ave in Woodstock ON. Authorized opportunities to shoot vacant buildings are rare and stranger still we were given unlimited access! We were only asked to mind the broken glass and to not lock...
[caption id="attachment_814" align="aligncenter" width="600"] tourist group shot[/caption] I love it when I take film in for processing and discover a photo surprise when I get it back. And this is one of them. Tourists in groups are terrific camera fodder. I hovered around this group of tourists on Toronto Island like a stalker trying to get a shot of them shooting together for almost 10 minutes. They...
Last year, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, by chance the TLR CLub and I photographed what was left of Casa Mendoza, the Beach and Shore Breeze Motels on Lake Shore Blvd. It turns out it was the only weekend to photograph the motel strips' infamous Casa Mendoza because on the Monday it was literally gone. The Shore Breeze and Beach Motels were sealed up for another demolition day(s)...
It's been a while but a few members of the TLR Club finally got together to go out shooting today! We were hoping to go somewhere exotic like Buffalo, but we couldn't get enough people together to make the trip worth our while and then we received several terrific tips on places in and around the Toronto Stockyards neighborhood to check out. Sadly we encountered security, limited access,...