Interesting shots Doug. Nice lighting and clarity. Your not alone her either. Our town fathers are letting all the big box stores in and killing our meager down town.
In a few years, if you start at Lake Ontario and drive north on Hwy 48 to Lake Simcoe, it will all look the same. Dave On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Doug Brewer<[email protected]> wrote: > The community leaders in my town, like too many others, will not rest until > it reaches the state of anonymity that visitors can't tell it from any other > place, so development of a new shopping mall "out by the Interstate" is > on-going, complete with generic restaurant chains and national/regional > department stores, now two steps removed from the old, historic downtown > area, which is in serious decline. > > In between the two is the old mall, once thriving and full of local shops to > go along with the chains. It is now a ghost town, as most of the big stores > have abandoned it, taking their traffic with them and killing the local > businesses. > > It's been an interest to me for a while, wondering what will happen to the > space, so yesterday afternoon I drove over there, armed with my K-7 and > FA35/2, to see how it's doing. As part of a new project, called, "What We > Have Left," I want to document effects of this movement. > > Not a terribly original idea, I know, but it may be of local interest at > some point, and it's certainly in interesting photographic possibility. > > so, http://www.alphoto.com/images/whatwehaveleft/ > > These are the first of what I hope to be many images on the subject. > > enjoy. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
