Lookout
A sculpture looks to the southwest from its perch atop Notre Dame.
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Towers and Cranes
Wintertime construction on Toronto’s harbourfront skyline, as seen from the Toronto Island Ferry.
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Pixelated Wall
A wall reminiscent of 8-bit graphics, in the Sheppard-Younge station.
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Balconies
Taken in 2011, this building was going up in the Queen Street east area of Toronto.
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Terminal
The terminal end of Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
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Leg Spiral
Looking up the inside of the Arc de Triomphe.
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Library Steps
The steps of the new national library, Bibliothèque nationale de France. This photo was taken a 90-degree turn to the left from The Newest Bridge.
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Peeling
Urban Decay from Queen Street East in downtown Toronto.
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Tower Segment
A portion of the Eiffel Tower just before midnight.
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1006
Crumbling facades, and on the left, the jagged opening of a collapsed wall where a house once was.
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Walled City
A view from the roadway leading to the island.
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Tube Sections
Years ago, before a trip to New York City, I read about Donald Judd’s studio and efforts to preserve its contents and open it to visitors. Yesterday’s New York Times has a beautifully written story about Judd, his work and those restoration efforts, now complete.
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16
One of the many tracts of abandoned row homes in the city where 16 of 16 houses on a block are boarded up. Block after block. Street after street.
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Ceiling Light
Today’s freight train explosion happened just a few kilometers from where I live. I didn’t hear or feel the blast, but those exact same tracks run along the end of my block and the train would have passed by me a few minutes later on its way south. So it got me thinking about trains.
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Peeling House
From the east side of Baltimore, near Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Moulin
The site of an ancient windmill sits in a field near the coast, in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. It’s just a few kilometers from the D-Day beaches. There are folks who catalogue the various windmills in the region, but I don’t know any more about this one.
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Old Meets New
Near the entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
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Lyon Rooftops
Looking east across the city from outside the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière.
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Decay
One of the blocks near Johns Hopkins Hospital where every single home is abandoned and boarded up to some degree. A common sight around the city.
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Pier 11
The lower east tip of Manhattan, as seen from the Brooklyn-Governors Island Ferry.
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