Orlando Corporation's Heartland Business Community

[Doady]

Orlando Corporation’s Heartland Business Community is one of the most prestigious business parks in the Greater Toronto Area and one of the largest undertakings of its kind in Canada. The 1,250-acre development includes over 25 million square feet of office, industrial, and retail space servicing over 300 businesses. Adjacent to a network of major highways, Heartland Business Community is within 90 minutes of the Canada/US border and provides excellent access to all marketplaces in Southern Ontario, Toronto Pearson International Airport, and the nation’s financial capital: downtown Toronto. Arterial roads provide efficient connections within the Regions of Halton, Peel, and Toronto.

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[fern]

you made an industrial estate look interesting

[Orlando]

Is this a joke? This does not belong here.

[202_Cyclist]

It looks beautiful. My wife and I are planning on visiting next summer.

[Doady]

Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist

It looks beautiful. My wife and I are planning on visiting next summer.

Let me know the date, I will give you the tour, if you want. This is my neighbhourhood, I know it very well, so I can make sure you won't miss any of the attractions.

[MonkeyRonin]

I worked in an estate like this for a few months once. It was depressing as hell (shit job too) - but you've still managed to find that little bit of romance & dreary beauty these places have.

[LAsam]

Well... you don't see that everyday on SSP!

[llamaorama]

I work in a place like this, in the office part of an industrial complex.

I’m surprised nobody caught you and told you to beat it.

[Doady]

Thanks everyone. I realized recently I should photograph more of the dreary and mundane things. It is what I know, and it seems to provoke more reaction too.

Originally Posted by llamaorama

I work in a place like this, in the office part of an industrial complex.

I’m surprised nobody caught you and told you to beat it.

There weren't a lot of people around on Thanksgiving and weekends so it wasn't too hard to avoid them. My camera is point-and-shoot so maybe it doesn't attract as much attention as a huge SLR. Mostly I only worried about the security cameras, some you can see in the photos.

[xzmattzx]

Originally Posted by Doady

There weren't a lot of people around on Thanksgiving and weekends so it wasn't too hard to avoid them. My camera is point-and-shoot so maybe it doesn't attract as much attention as a huge SLR. Mostly I only worried about the security cameras, some you can see in the photos.

What kind of point-and-click camera do you have? Do you process them after downloading? Your pictures are crisp, and I wouldn't have expected that.

[Doady]

Originally Posted by xzmattzx

What kind of point-and-click camera do you have? Do you process them after downloading? Your pictures are crisp, and I wouldn't have expected that.

I use an Olympus C-7070WZ. It is a 7 megapixel model from 2005 so maybe a new smartphone has similar or better image quality. If I were get a new camera I would get a Micro Four Thirds like Olympus Pen F or Panasonic GX9 since they are almost as compact as what I have now.

I shoot in RAW format and process the photos in Capture One Pro 9. Typically I adjust colour, curves, highlights, clarity, sharpening, chromatic abberation, barrel distortion, nothing too drastic. Shooting RAW and having a good RAW converter is very important.

[Jaborandi]

Very inspiring!

[xzmattzx]

Interesting pictures. It's good to see someone pay attention to a place that everyone writes off as soulless. These are our factories and warehouses of today; they look boring, but they are important, since a lot of things that we buy are made or shipped from places that look like this.

[subterranean]

Originally Posted by Doady

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[Urbanguy]

As ugly as these types of places may be it is a necessary "evil" per se. I work in an area that looks a lot like this and it pays the bills so I can't complain.

Thanks for sharing something I didn't think i'd ever see here!

I also enjoyed reading people's comments!

[geomorph]

Thank you for finding the beauty in this vernacular Americana!

[202_Cyclist]

Have you heard of Dream Industrial REIT, which owns these distribution centers and office parks in Toronto and Montreal? I bought stock in the company today.

🚀 eh!

[llamaorama]

Oh I posted in this thread two years ago... way to raise the dead.

Incidentally my company has a few Canadian facilities in the area you photographed: north York, gale grove, Brampton. Looks oddly familiar lol.

[202_Cyclist]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

Oh I posted in this thread two years ago... way to raise the dead.

Incidentally my company has a few Canadian facilities in the area you photographed: north York, gale grove, Brampton. Looks oddly familiar lol.

I bought another stock based on reading something in this thread last month and it doubled in value.

[mrnyc]

this thread is so freakin awesomely good the pics should be framed and put up in a virtural nyc art gallery. kinda nice and zen too for these trying times. i will revisit it often.