Flickr Forum: March 9th, 2007

For my shot, dvbwmerge (not my most creative of titles), I took each shot on the tripod, rotating the camera a bit for each shot. From there I dropped them each into CorelDraw with about a 50% transparency and then manually realigned them.

Thanks for including me in this wonderful group of photos, Jerrold. I feel very privileged to be among these great photographers.

If you've been to my Flickr stream, you know I have a passion for forgotten places. It's not easy to find abandoned buildings in Toronto with the new condo boom, but there are a couple. This photo was taken in one of the few remaining ones: the Massey-Ferguson warehouse down in Liberty Village.

I love the graffiti in the building - more the artistic stuff - but what I really like to shoot is the rich colour that comes with age and exposure to the elements. I try to compose the shots to not only make them appealing, but to capture the little details and the building's present position on it's inevitable path to decay.

I took my photo (the flying mallard) at a TPMG (Toronto Photography Meetup Group) meetup to photograph the lunar eclipse at the Humber Bay bridge. Unfortunately the weather was not good for the eclipse, but there were some geese and ducks around :-)
I'm a beginner in photography, and this was my first time using a 300mm lens. I saw this duck taking off and very quickly aimed at it and took a few shots. Thanks Jerrold for featuring this picture in here :-)

I'm a big fan of the urbex photography that Sean does and his photo posted here is fantastic.

I've recently been experimenting with the Orton effect in Photoshop on some of my urbex photos and this one seemed to really pop with this technique (Orton version posted today on my Flickr site).

Thanks for including me in this weeks Flickr roundup. My photo - Helen & Gladys - is a photo of my grandmother and her twin sister. Now in their 80's, this is a pose my great-grandmother used to do when aggravated and wanted to cover up the bad words she was saying, so we asked my grandmother and her sister to do it for us.

Practically identical, the major difference between the two is the colour of their hair (my grandmother dying hers). If you had your eyes closed, it would be difficult to tell them apart form their voices also. My aunt Gladys, who now lives in Fredrickton, came in to visit my grandmother who's health is declining.

When they both came to my house it was a vibrant occurrence, as the twins reminisced about growing up in Downtown Toronto. Toronto has such a vibrant history, and my family was part of it. My grandmother and her sister grew up in the beaches, on Queen East, where my great grandmother and grandfather owned a dress-making shop. With my great-grandparents arriving in Toronto before WW1, my grandmother and her sister both regaled in telling us how they used to ride the queen car to the centre of town, and seeing what it was all about.

Active in the Jewish community, my grandmother witnessed the 1933 riots at Christie Pits, and after meeting my grandfather moved into the Kensington Market area. After moving father north, with most of the Jewish community, she now lives in the Baycrest, a retirement complex for Jewish seniors. Fitting that the rooms in the apartment complex have rooms named "Kensington", "Palmerston", "Euclid", and others - a testament to the history of Toronto.

I love the Helen & Gladys photo. my favorite photo of my grandparents...they were in their 70's and they went into one of those photobooths...it shot 4 B&W photos...the first 3 were very nice poses, then in the very last one, my grandpa made this funny face and my grandmother cracked up laughing and then the shutter clicked. Helen & Gladys reminded of that shot. I wonder what faces I'll make when I'm that age...I'll probably flip the bird alot.

great selections! great comments!

Arieh's story really is great... and that bird shot, wow!