Year: 2011
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The “Sturm” That Never Was
For days in advance we had been warned. The storm of the year was approaching; 30 cms or more of snow [30 cms is enough to fret about?] Meetings were deferred; people worked from home; schools cancelled. But in the end, not much. Rick Mercer captured the hype. A US news report chronicled the event…
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Leslie Street
in: Photography
Leslie Street is a few blocks east of where I live. Some 30 kilometres south it runs into Lake Ontario. Leica M9, Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 , ISO 160, f/6.7, 1/150 sec
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Architecture
The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Front. The building hosting the Hall was formerly owned by the Bank of Montreal. The building was design in the mid 1880’s and was to be the Bank’s head office in Toronto. It stayed in operation until 1982 [1]. I…
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Retirement
No doubt retirement is inappropriate language for today’s culture where this event is not about a transition from the workplace to the kitchen table and solitaire or the couch and soap operas. Today this marks a career transition. Having said that, I don’t know what the correct word should be and therefore in all likelihood…
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Retirement
It’s been a long time in coming; deferred several times, but my friend Shekar is retiring. We had a little gathering for him last night. Leica M9, Summicron-M 50mm, ISO 500, f/2, 1/30 sec It looks like he’s got off on the right foot; in training for tours of various vineyards around the world.