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Girl with a pink jacket

October 24, 2010

Two years ago:
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Sifton

October 23, 2009

Three years:
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Coming and going

October 24, 2008

Just a fisheye street corner, with a mackerel sky. That orange sawhorse is blocking off Bank for the South American parade along Wellington. Here comes Venezuela!

I love a parade.

Two years ago:
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Leaves in the water

September 13, 2009

Three years:
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Palais Imperial

September 13, 2008

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Bytowne Cinema mural

September 10, 2010

Two years ago:
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Viewpoint

September 10, 2009

Three years:
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Hamlet seagull

September 10, 2008

Art Is In Bakery

A very good bakery, oddly located in an industrial park — City Centre off Somerset. The right-hand side of this picture is in a mirror.

They’ve put a patio in the loading dock.

Hartman’s

Then I went down to Hartman’s to get a few things.

One thing I like about the Color Sketch effect is how it makes people look like robots, and unconnected things take on extra significance. Like the picture of the baby. What does it mean?

Dundonald Park

Last one: A park I go through on my way home from the store. The man in the wheelchair did a U-turn when he saw me coming. Must have been afraid he’d get himself fisheyed.

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Bunch of carrots

July 9, 2010

Two years ago:

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Graffiti

July 9, 2009

I never thought I liked all that gimmicky stuff in cameras, but I like color sketch!

(In case you haven’t been paying attention, fisheye is an ultra wide-angle lens. Color sketch is Nikon in-camera processing that turns photos into cartoons.)

Here’s out the window with some dude walking past and the Umi Cafe and Korean Palace, formerly Soo-Ra, across the street.

Then I went across the street to the Umi. Here’s the front door in color sketch fisheye.

Korean store next door to the Tang.

Looking up the street toward Shiraz.

Tang back door on Percy.

And that is all!

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Starbucks

July 8, 2010

Two years ago:
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Warning Cult

July 8, 2009

Three years:
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Marie

July 8, 2008

Mennonite family out front of a cafe on the highway near Bancroft. I like the little girl. (BC stands for Bird’s Creek.)

And for a special bonus pic, here are a couple of Chinese dudes from a store window on Somerset in Ottawa’s Chinatown. I don’t know who they are or what they’re doing, but they look like they’re having a good time.

That’s all!

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Elgin & Sparks

April 28, 2010

Two years ago:
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Kyoto Sushi

April 28, 2009

Three years:
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Cattail

April 28, 2008

Here’s me in the waiting room. Notice the cycling pics on the walls.

Although my dentist has all those cycling pictures on his walls, he doesn’t ride a bike to work. I know this because he talks to me when my mouth is full of dental implements and I can’t possibly answer.

I wonder if some people become dentists because they like having a captive audience for their monologues.

Here’s the building across the street from my dentist’s office. As you can see, I had a bit of time to kill before my appointment.

I’m not going to tell you where this is. I’m sure you already know!

The election (Orange Crush)

How about that Jack Layton? He’s zooming up in the polls, poised to knock Iggy out of Stornoway.

(For my non-Canadian readers, if I have any: The Canadian socialist party, the NDP (New Democratic Party), led by Jack Layton, looks like it could surpass the Liberal party under Michael Ignatieff for second place in the coming federal election. Then the NDP would replace the Liberals as the official opposition in Parliament. The leader of the official opposition is provided with a residence called Stornoway. The NDP’s colour is orange. Some of us on the left find this pretty exciting!)

Outside of Quebec, where people are finally getting tired of the silly Bloc Québecois, I think the apparent rise of the NDP is based on fatigue among the voters– fatigue with the two leading parties, their gloomy leaders, their fear mongering, and their miserable attack ads.

And there, rising above it all… why, it’s that spunky cancer survivor Jack Layton! Striding into rooms on his crutch, friend of the little guy, optimistic, confident, forever smiling.

I like Jack Layton.

Most of the time I like the NDP too, although I’m getting a little tired of the unions and their endless money-grubbing. Don’t get me wrong, I get it about trade unionism and its place in the rise of the working class, but nowadays I don’t think they are doing much except feathering the nests of the middle class.

But never mind that. I’m all for an NDP official opposition, even if it means the left is so split that Harper gets his majority. Maybe that will teach the NDP and the Liberals to park their egos and merge into a new party.

You know, a coalition party of the left. Maybe they’d call it the Liberal Democrats. Sort of like how the Progressive Conservatives and the Reformers formed a coalition of the right, called it the Conservative Party, and rode it into power.

Anyway that’s what my dentist says.

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Hand of god

April 26, 2010

Two years ago:
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Haystack

April 26, 2009

I kind of like this picture, but I think it’s a good thing nobody looks at my blog on weekends, especially holiday weekends!

I’ll be back next week. Happy Easter. See you then!

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Under the Queensway

April 23, 2010

Two years ago:
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Spring bud with raindrops

Three years:
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Flying bird

April 23, 2008

I like circular mirrors. I’ve taken a picture in this mirror before, from a different angle:

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Through the looking glass

February 25, 2009

You can click any of these to see the original posts.
Other round mirrors:

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Mirror

September 30, 2010

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Stop Arrêt

December 3, 2010

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Back end

April 19, 2010

Two years ago:
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My cat rolling around on the asphalt at night

April 19, 2009

Three years:
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Ritz of spring

April 19, 2008

And here are some geese. They’re at Billings Bridge shopping centre.

I love nature!

Two years ago:
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Three years ago:
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I saw the light

April 13, 2008

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Twig

April 8, 2010

Three years ago:
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The bridge

April 8, 2008

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Through the looking goose

April 5, 2010

Two years ago:
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The secret

April 5, 2009

Three years:
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Ducks

April 5, 2008

Under the Queensway. This is one of the most dramatic spots in my daily travels, and I’ve photographed it a billion times.

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Camouflage

April 1, 2010

Two years ago:
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Kona

April 1, 2009

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Fifth ave

April 1, 2009

Three years:
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Gas

April 1, 2008

A reflection of the mural in the window of the travel agency next door.

Here is the artists’s website:
http://addgraphicsplus.com/

More about Ottawa wall murals here.
http://www.johnsankey.ca/murals.html

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Domtar & my bike

March 28, 2010

Two years ago:

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Winter Special

March 28, 2009

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O-Train

March 28, 2009

Three years:
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Open

March 28, 2008

Centre block, parliament buildings.

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The geese are back

March 27, 2010

Two years ago:
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Umi café

March 27, 2009

Three years:
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Doggie dreams of green castle

March 27, 2008

There’s usually some interesting graffiti under this bridge, because it’s out of the way and the beige patrol doesn’t get there too often. Not too much today, but here’s one I liked:

Previous views of this bridge, including the graffiti under it:

• Oct. 14, 2007
• Aug. 17, 2008

Two years ago:
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The Manx

March 26, 2009

Three years:
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Cornice

March 26, 2008

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Elmdale

March 25, 2010

Two years ago:
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Mutchmor School

March 25, 2009

Three years:
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Maximum 30

March 25, 2008

I like to go to the farm in every season. Here I peered in the window of a greenhouse. These are both fisheye shots, needless to say!

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Loading zone

March 23, 2010

Two years ago:
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Blue door

March 23, 2009

Pretty nice day after all, but cold. Here’s a bit of the spring breakup on the Ottawa river.

Then I stopped by the National Archives to get a self-portrait. That’s my bike in the back. I’m the green guy in the middle.

Later: I just noticed that my picture from this day three years ago is also of the bench out in front of the National Archives. Look at the snow!!

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1128 Wellington

March 22, 2010

Two years ago:
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Tree

March 22, 2009

Three years:
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Love in the snow

March 22, 2008

705 Gladstone. Google says it’s a social club for people of Abruzzese heritage. The billboard is trying to sell you something, but you don’t know what it is… do you, Mr. Jones?

Me neither.

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Bare trees

March 21, 2010

Two years ago:
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Sheep dog

March 21, 2009

Three years:
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Exclusive

March 21, 2008