• Not from around here

    My earliest memories of travel are of trips to Toronto. From our rural town, surrounded by trees and farms, we ventured east to visit family a few times a year. For four hours as we drove, I’d be on the edge of my seat, counting distance markers as the highway delivered us into Canada’s metropolis.

  • Escalators - København H Station, Copenhagen, Denmark

    København Blur

    The afternoon rush in Copenhagen, inspired by MC Escher. “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
    – Henry Miller

  • All the way down

    I’m really not a train guy. Despite all the images on this blog suggesting otherwise, I couldn’t tell you the first detail about locomotives or gauges, routes or liveries.

    But in the gleaming – or dilapidated – vehicles, the frenetic stations and the detritus, I see stories. Of adventure. Of tragedy. Beginnings and endings. Speed and stasis. The machines that deliver us to the moments: the defining experiences of travel…

  • 2 Portraits

    Amidst the morning commute at Copenhagen’s central station.

  • Geometry Class

    Crazy lines. Columns, grids, angles, lines — it’s all here in Madrid.

  • Stay warm

    The sound seems to carry farther on cold mornings. Sharp little snapping sounds as shoes click along the floor, the odd bit of salt underfoot.

  • Empty York

    Speeding Saturday Selfie.

  • Leaving York

    A lone passenger at York University station. Empty trains, empty halls.

  • Platform Portrait

    Morning rush on the platform at Spadina subway station.

  • Checking In

    Checking in, new and old-school. Seen at Bloor Station.

  • Passy Sortie

    A late night train near the Eiffel Tower, from my brief visit to Paris in December.

  • Platform Tickets

    In an empty and decaying train station, just before the rain, visions of journeys past.

  • Finch Hallway

    From a trip to my old neighborhood.

  • Luggage

    One of the luggage windows at an abandoned railway station in Kisumu, Kenya. The last train departed in 2006, but locals say that service is on its way to being restored.

  • Double Escalator

    A quick shot going up an escalator, somewhere in the north part of the Paris Metro system.

  • Nimes Arches

    Street-level view of the train station in Nimes, France as the tracks rumble overhead.

  • Eastbound at Dusk

    A brief break in the action and a deserted platform at the station in Nimes, France.

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