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It’s an easy life when someone else has done half the work for you.  Walking around Black Creek Pioneer Village, you notice that everything has been laid out for you, but for me, it’s all good practice.  I’m particularly drawn to the shot of the jug by the bed and the one of the face of the mill building.  What do you think?

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” they say.  Julia and Stu took me out to explore some of the derelict properties that have long-since been abandoned.  There was all manner of interesting things to take pictures of and here’s just a few.

Tucked away, in the most unlikely of places, I found this semi-circle of benches  in a spot where I could never imagine there would ever be enough people to fill them.  Taking a walk, looking for nothing-in-particular, just interesting angles and the out-of-the-ordinary, then this.  This is all I found on this trip, but it was a great find.  So how is it that Julia also stumbled on this, so far from her own neck of the woods?  “Great minds…” and all that. ;-)

The see-saw shot made for a vivid splash of colour.   My counterbalance subjects disappeared faster than my shutter speed.

I’ve wanted to find and take pictures in the Distillery District for a little while so I headed out there last night while I was near by.  I didn’t get that many shots before it started raining, but the pictures below are what I did get and I enjoyed the results.  Perhaps I’ll go back and add to the collection some time.

I got into trouble here.  The owner of the property did not take kindly to “[us] people” that just “can’t keep away”.  This one’s in honour of him.  Have a better day buddy.

Nothing stands between this kid and his photo opportunity.  Not even the threat of being blown into the water by the crazy gales and soaked by the spray and waves.  No, this fearless snapper goes all out.  There were a couple of lighthouses here, at Port Dalhousie, but the more accessible one is all fenced in and altogether less interesting.  I think I would have liked to have gotten a little closer, but then I really would have ended up in the drink.

It took me a while to find my way back to this waterfall.  It’s where Melissa and I had our post-wedding pictures taken and it’s a great location for continuing the fairytale theme.  This time it’s just the falls, no bride.  Then on the way home from there, I stopped off in Port Credit to get a few pictures of some geese as they come in to land on the pond.

I get a few minutes each week down by the lake while Jeneah is having her guitar lessons.  There’s all sorts of people that I haven’t had the courage to take pictures of, but this handsome fella will do for now.  Two night shots of the colourful sky.

Maybe it’s a little somber, but I liked the uniform pattern of the stones in this woodland cemetry.  …and apparently I am taking more pictures of railway tracks again.  The third shot was pointed out to me by Melissa, and even though I missed the intended target [sorry], I actually like it.

I went out looking for something today.  I found it, but couldn’t get close enough to get a good shot.  So, it’ll have to be another day.  Meanwhile, closer to home, I was playing about with some lengthy open shutter night shots and an odd-looking tree.  My favourite aspect of the last pic was a happy accident.  The red glow on the branches of the tree were caused by a car passing by.  I’ll let them off.