Picture taken in the area that will become the Verdun beach. Going to miss the rugged spontaneity, the urban explorer sensibility, that got so beautifully cultivated in an organic manner through here.
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PostArctica: Almost Done!
Tomorrow is the last day of autumn which means it is also the last day of L’automne (please drop by and like the page if you haven’t already). One of the most interesting experiences of my life has been walking and photographing the Verdun waterfront over the last three months.
Continue readingPostArctica: A Symphony of Ice with Beaver Update
It was pretty cold out there today and a huge sheet of ice was breaking up and floating down the river when I got there. You can hear it as the individual pieces clang against each, especially the moving ones banging against the more solid ice close to shore. (and
Continue readingPostArctica: Beaver Situation Takes A Turn For The Weird
Was down at the river today just trudging through the lower trail when I spotted some chicken wire fences wrapped around some trees. As I had blogged about a problem with beavers aggressively attacking trees on the Verdun waterfront, I assumed there might be a connection. So this is
Continue readingPostArctica: Like Bertolucci’s The Conformist
The Conformist is a film by Bernardo Bertolucci that for all its political subject matter is an astonishingly beautiful film to watch. I have never forgotten the chase scene through the woods that was probably shot at dusk using available light. It is a scene also reminiscent of Barry Lyndon
Continue readingPostArctica: Beaver Activity on Verdun Waterfront
Well, there usually is. I have been walking the Verdun waterfront almost every day since October 1st and while I have noticed the odd tree that has been chewed, it is only the last week or ten days where it has been disturbingly noticeable. I say “disturbingly” because it really
Continue readingPostArctica: Lately
Some from the last week or so. My new thing is that I now call these types of pictures my “Picturebook Pictures” lol. Shooting directly into the sun but a 1/4000th of a second shutter speed makes a half arsed image possible. looking the other way. Seen on a door
Continue readingPostArctica: The Dance Floor
Took these last week. During the summer in the evening this place is usually packed with dancers but not on November afternoons.
Continue readingPostArctica: October, 2016
So I am pretty happy with myself today because at the beginning of the month I decided that I would walk the lower path at the Verdun waterfront everyday in October with the hope of finding a way with my camera to “capture” whatever was going to become interesting to
Continue readingPostArctica: Pallet Bookcase
Seen on de l’Eglise earlier this week.
Continue readingPostArctica: At The Monument
Funny, I hung around this park in front of Verdun City Hall in the 70’s and there are a zillion crazy stories about what that was like. So last month I was walking through and saw all these young people gathered around the actual monument and I was getting thoughts
Continue readingPostArctica: Autumn Pictures
5 from today in the rain.
Continue readingPostArctica: Saying Goodbye To Summer
There are so many ways we say goodbye to summer A woman’s voice singing by the canal The sharp contrasting light between buildings downtown The thinning tourist throngs The empty […]
PostArctica: Around Town on Saturday
Despite the constant rain, which I was actually enjoying very much after an intense heat wave, there were events all over the city and I caught a few. West Verdun, […]
PostArctica: Walk # 11
“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors…disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same […]
PostArctica: Walk # 9
“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan Starting Point: Dollard and Newman in Lasalle. Bus let me off here. Headed south on Dollard […]
PostArctica: Bus Stop With Dirt Picture
Realized lately that two projects that I have had going in the last couple of years, Bus Stops and Dirt, have started interacting. Not sure I completely approve, yet, it […]
PostArctica: Fantastic Night In Verdun
Friday evening was a celebration of a wonderful project started over a year ago by the Comité d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV). The basic idea is to […]
PostArctica: Great Day At Dawson Community Centre.
I went to dances at this place as a teenager so it’s extra cool to have had a chance to hang out today at the annual Race for Kids/ Street […]