Reminds me of "On the Beach." Great mood capture, Frank. Jack
--- On Sat, 6/26/10, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > From: frank theriault <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO - Ghost Town > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7:01 AM > Yesterday was surreal. So many > downtown businesses were closed, the > streets were empty. The first photo looks up > University Avenue (one > of Toronto's widest and busiest downtown streets) at about > 12:30, when > normally the vehicular and pedestrian traffic would be > ~very~ heavy. > The second looks east along Wellington Street, between the > Toronto-Dominion Centre and the Royal York Hotel (showing > the infamous > fence), again around 1pm, when traffic would normally be > very heavy: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html > > Didn't bother taking pix of cops - they were all just > sitting around > doing nothing. Kind of reminded me of reading about > France's "Phony > War" at the beginning of WWII. I wonder of all those > fences will be > like the Maginot Line? > > Today's supposed to have many demos, but I don't know if I > really feel > like going downtown to find out. My better half is > feeling under the > weather and I might do more good sticking around the house > on this > rainy day. > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
