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Night Owls

September 28, 2011 – 8:10 am | 33 Comments | 1 Read this

Dur­ing sum­mer, days are long and sun­set is late, so I’m rarely down­town Ottawa after night falls. But as days are becom­ing shorter, I decided to go hunt for night shots while the weather is still nice.
Last Sat­ur­day was one of these days. It was in the mid-twenties and I left home around 7 p.m. to roam the down­town core with my cam­era. Half of the city had the same idea—by Sep­tem­ber, we are all clutch­ing at the last bits of summer.

Picture of the Week: Chalk

September 23, 2011 – 8:20 am | 16 Comments | 0 Read this

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 | 0 Read this

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 | 0 Read this

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.

Wheat Kings and Bees

September 5, 2011 – 8:30 am | 16 Comments | 0 Read this

Note to self: when explor­ing crop fields, even if it’s at the Exper­i­men­tal Farm just a few min­utes’ walk from home, do not wear shorts and san­dals. Espe­cially if you notice hun­dreds of bees gathering …

Picture of the Week: Orange Crush

September 1, 2011 – 8:15 am | 8 Comments | 0 Read this

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.

Ottawa's Gay Pride

August 29, 2011 – 8:05 am | 21 Comments | 0 Read this

The world appar­ently needs Gay Pride to remem­ber that homo­sex­u­al­ity is nei­ther a dis­ease nor a choice. It just… is. And yet, mem­bers of the LGTB com­mu­nity are reg­u­larly vic­tim of dis­crim­i­na­tion. Why? What can pos­si­bly jus­tify it? Homo­sex­u­al­ity is as old as the his­tory of the world. Noth­ing to be ashamed of, noth­ing to hide.

Picture of the Week: The House of Paint

August 12, 2011 – 8:05 am | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

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.