My Sweet City

Winter in my Beautiful City

Chilly in the Exchange

I'm really loving city shots these days. The more colour and texture the better! As I drive around town, I keep my eyes open for interesting streetscapes and see them as finished compositions.

Once on my computer, I play with the colour and contrast and add texture layers if needed to match the image I shot with my mind's eye.

This image I shot at f/2.8 with a shutter speed of 1/80. My ISO was 100 and focal length 45.

Christmas on Main Street

We drove downtown this evening to get to and from our son's first art show (which was great, by the way!).  Seeing the Christmas lights through the falling snow really added to the festive feel of the day. How does your city "deck the halls" for Christmas?

A Pop of Happy

Downtown can be serious and sometimes scary but if you look closely, you might just see a pop of happy mixed in there as well. This week I've spent a fair bit of time in the downtown area. I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed it.

I loved watching the businessman walk quickly with a coffee on one side of the street while the elderly man slowly peddled his basket-laden bicycle down the other, the rusty cars parked in the alley-ways and the UPS trucks huddled together in the parking lot, the semi-trucks rumbling down the road as the pair of horses slowly walked the other way carrying police officers on their beat. I loved the older buildings and hydro lines with a pop of happy strung over the wires. This seemed normal. The juxtaposition was normal. I liked that a lot.