Is this a museum?

Not the types of objects you see every day... a real payphone and TWO paper phone books!

I took this picture with my cell phone. It's not a great shot and I was trying to avoid being too obvious to all the people milling around! But I took it anyway and I'm posting it because it's part of my idea to look in all places for photo opportunities. From straight on I think this might be a really neat image, with that brilliantly yellow wall. (Yes, Butterdome.) 

Painting with mud

Random Saturday: Cleo Drives

There is nothing stellar about this picture, except for the subject. Cleo wanted to see where her other human had gotten off to! What amused me the most is that she is too light to honk the horn.

When you are a super curious pup, sometimes you just need to get higher! Just don't ask how she steers with all four paws on the wheel.

Parade Day!

I love parades. I think they are a ridiculous amount of fun and silliness. Consider yourself forewarned for a few days of parade-ness!

Before a parade, you often find different costumed people, clowns, etc. wandering around entertaining the waiting crowds. Here we had someone in an awesome snail costume! Note the brilliant skateboard under the snail shell, to keep it from dragging on the ground.

Taken from an office window, a block away, and then cropped to reduce the busy-ness.

Random Saturday: Meet Cleo!

This is Cleo!

She is 7 months old and a ball of energy and fun. In this shot she decided to visit me (with a little human help in behind) to see what I was up to - I was looking at pictures of her! You can just see her two tiny paws sitting on top of the monitor.

I'm sure you will be subjected to much more Cleo in the months to come - assuming I can ever get my little girl to sit still long enough to pose! I have a lot of very blurry pictures of her.

Random Saturday: Stroller

I was walking downtown and saw this stroller...  just sitting at a bus stop, alone. It was there for several hours, but did eventually go away, so it may or may not have actually been abandoned.

My first thought definitely was that it was abandoned, so I intentionally took the shot from a ways back. With no people in the picture, it seems to me that it adds to that lonely feeling - a stroller alone on a city street? No parent, no child? It would be even better without the bright strawberry on the bench ad. Then all the colours would be of a drab grey or brown nature and just add to that feeling of abandonment.

1/160 sec exposure, f/4 aperture, ISO 80, 5mm focal length

Random Saturday: Jones!

It is late in the day, but it is STILL Saturday, and therefore there is still time to get in a picture for Random Saturday.

Jones Soda always have different pictures on their pop bottles. When I saw this one on a root beer, well... could YOU have left that face at the store? I certainly couldn't!

Random Saturday: Smilie

I recently had to open a new jar of peanut butter, and this is what I found when I took the foil off!

Happy eats to you too!

Random Saturday: Car

Last Saturday, a random house I passed. Today, a random car!

It's a cell phone picture, it's nothing fancy, photography-wise. But it's a really bright, cheerful car! (And it's parked on the yellow line.)

Random Saturday: house

There is no major photographic aim here. It's just a very random house that caught my eye as I was walking around. In fact, I like this idea so much I'm going to begin doing Random Saturdays. These are just strange or interesting things I've seen.

There's at least 3 different major artistic elements going on here, 2 on the front of the house and the glass brick wall to the right side.

Yes, it would be better without the large branch, but otherwise I was shooting straight in to the sun.