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Carolyn Posing Amid the Ruins Panorama

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:53 -0400

One of the many Bays -- Lake of Bays

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:54 -0400

Kids going off to college this fall? Much hasn't changed in the last five-hundred years.

John Frederick I of Saxony, aka John the Magnanimous "Champion of the Reformation", Elector of Saxony, and Head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany, wrote a reprimand in March 1538 to the administrators at the University of Wittenberg. Wittenberg, a university town of prominence, was temporary home to teenage boys just out of adolescence, and at the time, the the town was considered to be an unsupervised licentious environment. The reprimand (paraphrased) reads...

It has been reported to us that many improprieties take place and are to be found in your University of Wittenberg...they [the faculty]...let the youth do and go as they please and wish, through which their vice grows with their lack of teaching. And it is reported that an un-industrious student at times seduces another, which causes more grief and ignominy to the parents who send their sons and children there for discipline and teaching at their financial burden...The youth also drastically overdress and are prodigal, and thereby burden their parents so much that it is talked of far and wide...all of which brings our university to destruction in a short time if it is not investigated.

Perspective Misleading

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:16 -0400

From this vantage point, Ragged Falls on the Oxtongue River look rather tame. In actuality, the falls are whole lot steeper than they appear in this downward perspective. There's a lot of H2O being funneled through this flume.

Dorset Fire Tower

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:19 -0400

Shot from Hwy 35, a kilometer, give or take, south of Dorset, Ontario. At this point, my stomach began to quaver with butterflies in anticipation of my ascent to the top.

Hwy 35

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:38 -0400

As seen from the top of the Dorset fire tower.

Transition

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:15 -0400

The last vestige of Toronto's status as a major international port is visible in this image, taken from the newly opened Sugar Beach. Once the gateway to commerce, the Toronto waterfront is fast being transformed from a place of transport and business to a place for fun and relaxation. Not too long ago, Toronto's waterfront, except for the Islands, was inaccessible to the general public. As the commercial makeup of the city changes, so changes the waterfront. Eventually, virtually all 46 kilometers of the waterfront land will be made accessible and will be transformed into a desirable recreational destination. The waterfront has become one of our favourite places to play.

Precambrian Lines

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:57 -0400

This massive rock is one of two that were sawn from the Precambrian Shield in northern Quebec, transported in 1.5m sections, and reassembled here at Sugar Beach. The red and white lines are made of a thermoplastic bonding agent that cements the pieces back together. The Precambrian Shield consists of some of the oldest exposed rocks in the world. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly old it is. I mean, you may think that mouldy piece of green fuzzy cheddar lurking at the back of your fridge is old, but that's just peanuts to how old the shield is; at least 4.5 billion years. Thanks again Douglas Adams for being such a mind-bogglingly good author.

Sirius Cumulus

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:27 -0400

Final Approach

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:53 -0400

Toronto Islands and the Island Airport, shot from Harbourfront near the Sirius Stage, at the foot of Lower Simcoe St.
Have a look at this amazing Kodak 1922 Kodachrome film test. It was produced 13 years before Rouben Mamoulian's Becky Sharp, the first full length colour feature film was released, although many colour short films had been produced as early as 1908.

Toronto Islands Panorama

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:15 -0400