There’s nothing quite so rewarding in street photography as setting out for the day, having no destination in mind; you merely wind through the city with your camera wherever your feet take you, recording the city as it goes about… Read More »A City Stroll in Black & White
Back on December 6, 2022 I published a post about the colourful murals outside a semi-neglected, mostly-deserted building on the southwest corner of Jarvis Street and Queen Street East (141 Queen Street East, to be exact). The only merchant in… Read More »Mural Update: iPot Cannabis
The Jarvis Street Baptist Church is located at 130 Jarvis Street, on the northeast corner of Jarvis Street and Gerrard Street East. The Church has its origins in a small group of people who first gathered in October of 1818,… Read More »Jarvis Street Baptist Church
That’s right – I started this blog on July 31, 2022. Happy First Birthday! Thank you to all my loyal subscribers for sticking with me all this time. There’s still a lot more TOcityscapes to come! If you’d like to… Read More »TOcityscapes is One Year Old!
I’ve been working on this post for months, off and on. Originally I had entitled it Jarvis Street Mansions and thought I’d focus exclusively on the remaining mansions from Jarvis Street’s so-called golden era. As I walked up and down… Read More »Jarvis Street Heritage
This post is 3 parts photo experiment mixed with 1 part TOcityscape. Here I’ve used a special lens to achieve this effect: you’ll either love it or hate it… In & Around Allan Gardens Jarvis Street Baptist Church
On the east side of the Parkside Student Residence on the corner of Jarvis and Carlton Streets, there resides a colourful multi-storey-high mural entitled Equilibrium. Created by Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel in 2018, the mural was produced by… Read More »“Equilibrium”
Brickman was created by a German abstract group called Inges Idee in 2010, and sits at the corner of Jarvis Street and Adelaide Street East. Commissioned by Aspen Ridge Homes as part of the City of Toronto Private Developer Percent… Read More »“Brickman”
I discovered these interesting murals on the outside of the iPot Cannabis shop, corner of Jarvis Street and Queen Street East (141 Queen Street East): Continuing my journey, around the corner at 417 Richmond Street East (corner of Jarvis Street),… Read More »Murals at Queen Street East & Jarvis Street
Welcome to a New Series! This is the first instalment of a series of posts I call From The Vaults. These are shots of Toronto’s architecture I’ve taken many years ago on film, prior to making the move to digital… Read More »From The Vaults: Demolition of CBC Radio/TV Studios & Broadcast Tower
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