I took a trip over to PEI this past weekend, decided to take the ferry back instead of the bridge. The people on board the ferry are much more interesting than the approaching shore and terminal so I turned around to photograph them. Note tags: NovaScotia , pei , ferry , people , BlackAndWhite , iphone
The Memorial Church is part of Grand-Pré National Historic Site and UNESCO World Heritage Site . It s also a Classified Federal Heritage Building. It was built in 1922 as part of the commemoration of the Expulsion of the Acadians in the late 1750s, largely regarded as a crime against humanity. I had the day off so took my bike up there to ride the Harvest Moon trail , the start of which runs by…
Out at the deli celebrating a friend’s birthday with carbs and fat. I m at: Hali Deli - Old World Delicatessen, Halifax, Nova Scotia Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7283/ Note tags: checkin , food , halifax , NovaScotia , restaurant
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I have quite a few photos of this building, I pass it on the way to the office and I just like the stone and windows. On this particular morning I was actually waiting for a break in traffic because I liked the one garbage bin with its lid up out front of the Weird Harbour espresso bar. It wasn t until I had taken the photo and lowered the camera that I noticed the man drinking his morning…
I find most people who are waiting for a bus are either relentlessly scrolling on their phones or relentlessly craning their necks to see if the bus is near. I pass by the Khyber officially known in the historical buildings record as the Church of England Institute at least twice a day on my walking commute to-and-from the office, and I often find something about it interesting enough to capture.…
There are a few places to sit along the active transportation trail that s part of the new Cogswell district updates. But there are no trash cans. I was walking from my place downtown to a friend s place so took the new path. This graffiti is in a few places along the trail, and like the rest of downtown Halifax, the point stands: there needs to be more trash cans. Photograph tags: BelieveInFilm ,…
After a few years of failing to remember to take a roll of infrared film out of the fridge I managed to do it this year. I loaded it up in to my Mamiya 6, slapped on an R72 filter and carried it around with me. I went on a bike ride with a friend to the Annapolis Valley and thought it s be a great place to get some interesting photos but I managed to overexpose those frames, even at ISO12! I then…