Where brick meets sky

Straight up
London, ON
August 2018
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Life is about finding time in between everything else to do the things that inspire you. Like pretty much everybody on the planet these days, I don't have a lot of free time. I can't just drop everything and do photo shoots wherever and whenever I want.

Instead, I try to grab the opportunities as they present themselves. Like when my daughter was getting together with a friend for coffee. I dropped her off, then wandered the neighborhood for a couple of hours. She texted me when she was done, and on the way home I told her about the couple of gigs of pixels I had captured through the lens.

What's funny is this wasn't one of those neighborhoods that offered up anything particularly interesting. A major intersection where two of London's busiest arterial roads meet, and huge expanses of big box retail have been built in just a few years. The amount of energy here is overwhelming, but the architecture is hardly memorable.

But you do what you can with what you've got. So I walked behind one of the big box stores and eyeballed the brick wall carefully from the desolate parking lot. The occasional vehicle cruised on by, but I was largely on my own. The sun was setting, casting its perfect golden hour light on the giant stretch of red brick. I immediately knew it was worth coming here.