Saturday, May 10, 2025

Poking my lens into another alley

Whispers from long ago
Toronto, ON
May 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram


I had forgotten how much fun it can be to wander around an historic neighbourhood - in this case, Toronto’s Liberty Village - and stick my camera lens into places that normally wouldn’t get much optical love.

Century-old factories repurposed as condos and offices make for fascinating viewing, particularly in the darkened alleys between the ancient brickwork.

This scene practically invites us to run our fingers along the rough brick, or imagine the stories that might have played out on or near the steel fire escape stairs.

Maybe those stories weren’t always pretty. But they were - and are - still worth remembering, even in the whispers of modern images pulling light out of the darkness.

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