jks's General Photo Thread

[jn_12]

I live at QQ and Spadina, and my girlfriend is a big duck lover (it's normal for us to have 3 or 4 dozen ducks/geese/swans in the slip in front of our building). She was curious about these guys as well so she called Ducks Unlimited and they said that they are probably Buffleheads. They only come down this far south in the winter, and this is as far south as they travel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufflehead

I think they fit the bill (pun totally intended)

 

[jks]

Sure, I guess that's cool, but if you are focussing on specific projects it would be appreciated if you put the photos right in their respective threads.

Darkstar, thanks for changing it. If it is a specific project,I will put it in its thread as well. This is just for things that aren't specific. Also I like to take many pictures of the same place, so as not to overflow the project's thread, I'll put the best photos there, and everything here.

 

[RAC lll]

The bird is called an Old Squaw.

 

[jks]

February 28th It was another nice day, and also the last day use my student ticket for the ROM. Thanks to 3D for suggestions, I used the beach setting to keep everything from being overexposed =P. Enjoy!

While I was waiting for the bus, a neighbouring 'commie block' looked nice through the trees:

Abstract Route 49 schedule

At 10x optical zoom, my street looks so short

Once again, at 10x zoom, the bus is arriving

Down Bloor Street

These lamps looked very nice against the crystal

Museum House Site

Random shots of the outside:

Addition to that building (lol, I always forget the name/address)

Random shots of the inside. I did take a lot of photos of the actual stuff inside, but will only post architecture-related ones

Looks like the crystal ate this part of the walkway =P

The rotunda had a nice warm glow, but however I tried to take a picture, it doesn't really show =(

The second floor in the old building is completely close off for redevelopment of the Nature (?) section

One Bedford hasn't moved much

Coming Soon:

Back to the museum, the new Mineral + Light exhibition is really cool (with the touchscreens and all =P), but I was disappointed that you couldn't take pictures in the Diamond exhibit (but then again, i suppose it is expected).

When I looked at this stone, I though to myself, what a cool shape for a tower. What do you think??

Sunset

FCP, needs a reclad/good wash

The CN Tower at 40x zoom from Bloor & Devonshire

Murano

The St Thomas was it?? Something like that. There was a discussion about it earlier this week.

Behind it, a crane for either Casa, or BSN

Info on this building?? One of my favourite midrises

Dexia pokes above the UofT

Massey College

BAC, the glass is still broken, wow?!?

Abstract Kipling Stn elevator

 

[Long Island Mike]

Good ROM Visit Pics!

JKS: Good pics from your visit to the Royal Ontario Museum-and Yes - I agree that crystal would be a good shape of a building tower...LI MIKE

 

[jks]

March 15th

The weather was perfect for the St Patrick's Day Parade!! It must've passed 10 degrees. Anyway, some current projects, and some old favourites. The photos of the actual Parade are at the bottom. Enjoy =D

The Parade started along Bloor. It was a unique opportunity to snap a pic from the centre of the street

Casa + BSN from Yonge Bloor Square =P

Xerox Building

BSN looks pretty abandoned in this photo

The Bay looked OK at that angle actually

A cluster of diagonal buildings at Bay

Murano

Once again, the twin towers of Bloor

the Yonge Canyon

Delta Chalsea looked pretty nice in the sun

A tribute to Flatiron

Inside of Queen's Quay Terminal

And now the actual parade

Mounted Police

Metropolitan Police lol

I was fascinated by the DeLorean Owner's club of Toronto!

One of them was actually personalized to look like the time machine from Back to the future, with the Flux Capacitor, and "Save the Clock Tower" pamphlets!

They all look like they're about to fly away!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

 

[BUGEYEDBRIT]

There is a building with a similar shape to this:

Tower 42 in London ( what was The Natwest tower..)

Re the De loreans, they are appropriate I suppose, being assembled in Northern Ireland.

 

[Long Island Mike]

JKS: Happy St.Patrick's Day to you and all-now those pics...

JKS: Good St. Patrick's Day Pics from Central Toronto!
I like the pic showing the Cannabis Flag painted atop a building and that neat Yonge Street Canyon pic-by the way when were those lightpoles placed on Yonge Street? I always thought that the streetlights mounted on surrounding buildings was quite interesting. I do not remember them from my Toronto trips.

The TPD 57 Chevy and the DeLoreans are quite neat-especially seeing so many in one place. I do agree the movie "Back to the Future" made them famous but remembering the infamous rise and fall of one John DeLorean...

LI MIKE

 

[jks]

July 15

Wow, it has been a while since I posted in this, but here's some pics from around downtown today:

Temperance Plaza

Bay-Adelaide Centre

Cloud Gardens

This little park is on top of the podium of Richmond-Adelaide Centre, I believe. Next to the Hilton Hotel

(The hilton's pool is very interesting, it is half-outside, and half-inside)

Down University Avenue

BAC + Scotia

Nathan Phillips Square

I went inside, and noticed a few things about the miniature of the downtown area

Here, West Harbour City is shown, facing the wrong way

The shape they put down for Signature Tower is actually pretty cool

But they got the York-Bremmner area all wrong!

THE END =)