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Picture of the Week: Chalk

September 23, 2011 – 8:20 am | 16 Comments

When I walked by The Bay the other day, I couldn’t help tak­ing a pic­ture of this stack of chalk, part of a “back to school” win­dow dis­play. I can still smell the chalk dust in my dream… yep, I’m traumatized.

Picture of the Week: 9/11 and the American Embassy

September 16, 2011 – 8:00 am | 5 Comments

Last Sun­day, most of the West­ern world com­mem­o­rated the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks on the United States. It’s been ten years already, and the tragic event remains engraved in everyone’s memory—we still all remem­ber where we were when we learned about the attacks, how we reacted as the footage of the planes hit­ting the tow­ers was replayed over and over again.

Picture of the Week: The Evangelists

September 9, 2011 – 8:30 am | 17 Comments

Last Sat­ur­day, when tak­ing pic­tures of the people’s memo­r­ial to Jack Lay­ton, I stum­bled upon a strange gath­er­ing on Par­lia­ment Hill. Spec­ta­tors were sit­ting on both side of the lawn, in front of the Peace Tower, and a small group on the steps lead­ing to the Par­lia­ment was preach­ing loudly along the lines of “Canada kills unborn babies”, “we want to believe Canada will fol­low God”, “abor­tion is a grue­some act” etc.

Picture of the Week: Orange Crush

September 1, 2011 – 8:15 am | 8 Comments

On August 22, Jack Lay­ton, the leader of the New Demo­c­ra­tic Party (NDP), passed away. He was only 61.
Cana­di­ans all across the coun­try, regard­less of their polit­i­cal beliefs, mourned fol­low­ing the news of his death. An impromptu memo­r­ial emerged on Par­lia­ment Hill.

Picture of the Week: Winnie-the-Pooh Characters

August 26, 2011 – 8:15 am | 8 Comments

When I was a kid in France, I remem­ber Winnie-the-Pooh (or rather “Win­nie l’ourson” en français) being pop­u­lar. I think I even had a vinyl record of tales with Win­nie char­ac­ters that my par­ents played on thep­hono­graph. Yes, vinyl record. France wasn’t very mod­ern in the 1980s.

Picture of the Week: Double Rainbow

August 19, 2011 – 8:10 am | 12 Comments

By the Exper­i­men­tal Farm, where we live, thun­der­storms are always impres­sive, maybe because the farm is a flat empty space. The other day, it started rain­ing even though it was sunny out­side. A few min­utes later, we spot­ted this beau­ti­ful dou­ble rainbow.

Picture of the Week: The House of Paint

August 12, 2011 – 8:05 am | 12 Comments

A few weeks ago, I saw a call for entry on OttawaStart’s Twit­ter feed. Pho­tog­ra­phers were invited to sub­mit their view of Ottawa, explor­ing the city’s grit­tier side. Pho­tographs would then be exhib­ited at the Ottawa CONNECT — Art and Pho­tog­ra­phy Exhibit.

Picture of the Week: The Contortionist

August 5, 2011 – 6:30 am | 8 Comments

Last Sat­ur­day, I stopped by Sparks Street to check out the Busker­fest, Ottawa’s annual street per­former festival.I love street art—it really livens up a city.