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Nice camera. Very nice lens. With a DSLR, the quality of the optics is as important as the quality of the camera itself. The images look good. Consider some filters as a next step. You'll thank yourself.
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Here's my first sideways photo: the church at Waterloo and Queens
[IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2852/9...d6fb65eb_b.jpg Church At Night by haljackey, on Flickr[/IMG] |
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lol, found on reddit ;)
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great pic Chadillaccc - that angle captures the skyline evenly with OLP centered
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Good shot. shame about the metal trees.
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Nice ones. My favorite thing about Victoria Park is the century mansions surrounding it.
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Paved paradise: Wonderland power centre
Remember Westmount mall? https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/352/19...d20b381b_b.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/ai360/...in/dateposted/ Low and high density construction on Southdale between Warncliffe and Wonderland https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/279/19...2672e47a_b.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/ai360/...in/dateposted/ |
^Blahsville. I used to live across the street from Westmount mall as it was starting to go down the shitter, right when they were building most of the above (2005). I do not miss the area at all (I have been living for the past 10 years in Liver&Onions)
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...And another massive extension is being prepped on Wonderland between Bradley and Warncliffe. Grading and sewer work is nearly done.
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At one time the areas around Wonderland/Westmount was what Hyde Park is today: bustling and booming and on the leading edge of new urban "growth". It was the place to be to live, play, and shop. Changing demographics and socioeconomic trends changed the paradigm for that area for the unbetter. I would not consider it a bad place today, but "blahsville" might not be a bad description - unremarkable and bland in its commercial sameness. Not to cause offense, but I suspect that one day, Hyde Park will experience something similar - as the big box/urban sprawl phenomenon has its day in the sun and is at some point overtaken by something else in the future. What sent Westmount Mall "down the shitter" is the same commercial business model that currently dominates and sustains Hyde Park, and that itself may very well be sent down the drain in the future by changing socioeconomic trends. Pride cometh before a fall. Every modern urban community is at some point new and shiny; the place to be. For most, as time passes the shine wears off and warts develop. Things loose their lustre and wear out. Sometimes/hopefully those communities are able to recycle/reinvent themselves, sometimes not. BTW: regardless of the subject matter, the quality of the aerial imagery is very nice. |
^no doubt. The rot is perhaps on the walls for Hyde Park (retailing, that is...the smart centre north of Fanshawe has a rotting parking lot that was never paved and with light standards looming emptily for close to seven years). For a while it looked as though Masonville area was on the way down (as Future Shop, Canadian Tire left the scene, and Masonville mall was replete with empty storefronts). On the other hand, there is still a hell of a lot of space to build and the general trend is towards larger, more upscale homes in the Hyde Park area.
I put my money on Masonville as the last mall standing. White Oaks is showing signs of serious trouble, a la Westmount mall circa 2004-05 (still mostly full, but with the chains exiting and being replaced by bric a brac stores). |
I personally think that White Oaks will outlast Masonville because of its proximity to the 401, and that it has a place in the minds of many out-of-towners as a special place to shop. I know many people who live in Oxford who plan a couple shopping trips at different times of the year to White Oaks. But the last time I was there, it did seem like the quality of retail (though what do I know about that) seemed greatly diminished.
Snark's comment earlier is chilling to me. I've expected that we'd have to one day have these big box stores pulled down (the other day, I saw a months-vacant former Target store and wondered what might become of it), but it's hard to imagine what (presumably even more wasteful) model might displace these big box stores. These photos are awesome. I showed my wife (who only sees Wonderland when we're heading in to town to visit her in-laws occasionally) and her comment was "Christ, that stuff looks bad from ground level and even worse from the air." |
This is a shot I took of the One London Place tonight while the sun was setting.
http://static1.squarespace.com/stati.../?format=2500w |
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