Atheist Poncho

My friend Emily and I went out the the Leslie street spit on Sunday. It was about 30 degrees centigrade colder than it was today. The spit is really interesting, it’s all man made from half a century worth of industrial garbage. That beach is all bricks and concrete from demolished buildings. I guess I can just quote wikipedia

” The Leslie Street Spit is a man-made headland in Toronto, Canada, extending from the city’s east end in a roughly southwesterly direction into Lake Ontario. It is about 5 km long. The official name of the spit, sometimes used on government maps is the Outer Harbour East Headland.”

There you go, your Toronto geography lesson of the day. It was very surreal being out there though. You’re standing on a giant pile of treasures, and it’s just massive. Shortly after taking these shots we saw a Snowy Owl which was pretty god damned stunning. It’s strange to see such a beautiful animal on a garbage pile.

Anyhow I had intentions of shooting colour here but I forgot the slide for my film back and couldn’t change film. Also the wide angle lens for my camera broke and as a result wasn’t metering so I had to guess these exposures. I’ll have to go back on a nice summer day to capture all the colours of the stones and tiles. My friend Patrick and I just aquired a 4×5 camera that we’re splitting so it might be nice to do 4×5.

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