Simpler, smaller, more elegant than the mansions being built these days.
There is a nice architectural mix of symmetry and asymmetry which I find interesting.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Wave Walk
The pavement past the tunnel connecting the North Bay Waterfront with Discovery North Bay and the Downtown Area has a uniquely Lake Nipissing shoreline look.
I am reminded of waves breaking on a beach and ripples in the sand that invariably form.
Are you?
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Roadeo
We visited the North Bay Waterfront for a little walk yesterday afternoon. The new pedestrian tunnel to the downtown area delivers sightseers to an area between Discovery North and the North Bay Transit Bus Station parking lot.
We discovered Transit drivers from North Bay and Sudbury competing on a course designed to challenge all aspects of maneovering large vehicles through cities.
Quite a challenge!
The thought for the day: “Cones are people too!”
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Uptown?
Who the heck are they?
And why, oh why, does someone not like them?
And the swastika artist deserves the treatment his work got.
Or maybe it’s not a swastika? Seems a bit bent out of shape.
This big brain with the black spray-can is sure obscure!
I guess there is a message there somewhere? Well hidden though.
Oh well, I guess everyone wants to try for their 15 minutes of fame.
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End of an Era
Yesterday I went on a little photo walk and found myself in the part of town where the Ontario Northland Railway has its operations.
There is a long history to this enterprise and North Bay has been the centre of its operations since it was created.
Over the years it has grown into the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and its activities extend beyond rail to telecommunications, shipping, internet services, contract refurbishing of rail cars and locomotives. At one time it had its own small airline (Norontair).
Recently in a “cost saving” measure the Provincial Government announced that it was divesting itself of the various parts of the ONTC and would sell each to the highest bidder. This has created a great deal of upheaval and uncertainty in the town and indeed in the whole of Northeastern Ontario. From North Bay to Moosonee unhappiness reigns.
The memory of the “Glory Years” is about to start fading:
It won’t be long before the building in the background is renamed.
People will forget as the enterprise that connected Northeastern Ontario fades into history.
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Abstract
Photographer Andre Gallant makes what he calls “Dreamscapes”.
This is an attempt at what he calls a “mirror dreamscape”.
I’m not sure that it’s all that successful. Perhaps it works better for a soft light photograph.
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Sweetman’s Kids
These intensely coloured flowers were grown in Sweetman’s Garden by the members of the North Bay Horticultural Society Youth Program.
They were showing their best colours yesterday.
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Quiet Creek
My daughter and her family have a lovely “waterfront” property near Rochester, NY. Last week I spent some time “fishing” for photographs on her waterfront.
Here is the colour version of one “keeper”:
I also got to fooling around with monochrome and made the following two versions:
Straight Black and White –
Toned Version –
Not sure which one I like better.
I think I’m leaning toward the colour version, but…
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