April 8 Toronto

April 5 NOTL

Travel, trees and textures

April 3rd Toronto to NOTL

March 11 Ontario

On the breezes of the sky......

January 12 Blackstone Edge, Lancashire.

The sweet smell of English mist and woodsmoke...

December 17. Montreal to Trois Rivieres.

Quebec...La Belle Province. Je me souviens.

October 30th Toronto

October 28 Toronto

Going back to the land of fire and ice.

Forgotten

September 22

Some of my photographs from Eastern State Penitentiary in Edge of Humanity magazine.

https://edgeofhumanity.com/2016/09/22/usa-17/

September 10 Toronto

Woke up before the alarm to a wild, persimmon sky.

August 10, England

" August rain: the best of summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time"
-Sylvia Plath

July 30, England

Nosey neighbours.

26 June Toronto to Reykjavik

“The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
― Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

June 28 Thermal pool in North Iceland

The turquoise silence.

June 28, somewhere in Iceland.

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

July 27 Beach at Vik.

Icarus of Sólheimasandur

aka the 'plane at Vik' but where's the poetry in that?

Exhibition

Through April. My exhibition 'Here and Gone' at Vistek Gallery, Toronto.

http://prophotoblog.ca/community/in-store-gallery/colette-stevenson-here-gone-eastern-state-penitentiary/

April 24, Lawrence Market, Toronto.

Sometimes it's almost summer.

April 18 Toronto

My cat is fly. It says so on the box.

January 30, Toronto

Sometimes

Stefan's balcony, Wellesley St., Toronto. January 25

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”
― Christopher Morley

January 16 Toronto

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

December 20 England

“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

December 12 Toronto

“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
― Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge

November 12 Toronto....Royal Agricultural Show

Chicken thoughts.....

"Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing."
-Jeffrey Russell, The Duneoneers

November 6

Some of my street photos in Edge of Humanity Mag.

http://edgeofhumanity.com/2015/11/06/cc/

Roxy at Te Aro, November 5 Toronto

“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

October 29 Davey at the gym, Toronto

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

October 20 Toronto

Simone in her favourite place.

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

October 3 Toronto

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

September 13 Downtown airport, Toronto

“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.”
― Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion

September 12 Navy Pier, Chicago

“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
― k.d. lang

September 12 Navy Pier, Chicago

Ghost city skyline

September 11 Millennium Park, Chicago

The Bean.....Hello Bean.....

September 10 Chicago

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

September 1 Queen St. West, Toronto.

"Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

August 22 Toronto

Sweating it out all week. I need a hot shower. It's like a regular shower but with me in it.

August 1 Bellagio, Las Vegas

Keep going.....

July 31 Navajo Nation, Arizona

Mary Williams in Gray Mountain.

July 31 Bellagio, Las Vegas

Sensory overload and some sculptures by Richard MacDonald

“Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment.”
― M Chapman

July 29 Arizona

“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

July 28 Painted Desert, Arizona

'... because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

July 20 Riverside, Toronto

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

July 2 Royton Market, England

“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House

July 2 Royton Market, England

Maybe she found what she was looking for.

June 15 Toronto

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

June 20 Toronto

Simone modelling for my new camera.....her patience was exemplary, which was unusual.
Perhaps it was ennui, perhaps it was resignation or maybe she just wanted me to see her beauty from another angle.

June 12 Toronto

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness