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April 5 NOTL
Travel, trees and textures
April 3rd Toronto to NOTL
March 11 Ontario
On the breezes of the sky......
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
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/edgeofhumanity.com/2015/11/06/cc/amp/
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 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
June 1 Toronto
All the love in the world.
May 19 Toronto
Orpheus and Euridice
April 25 Toronto
Living in the moment