It was a very cold day for early March, when I took this pic.

The train stalled for 20 minutes or so, though it didn't affect me as I wasn't taking it, I was only seeing my brother off on his way to Toronto.

March 18th, 2007: My attempt to replicate this photo a little over a year later is here.

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Bus photos seem to be faily popular here at Flickr. so I thought I'd take a couple of OC Transpo buses, since I've lived in Ottawa for over a year now and still didn't have any.

This is the back of the number 55 bus as it passes the bus stop near the corner of Carling and Holland in the northeast part of the Ottawa suburb of Nepean. You can see the Civic Pharmacy with that really retro, 1950's-style signage.

I didn't really intend for that girl to be in the shot, but I don't mind. People make these sorts of photos more interesting.

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The Rideau Street Blockbuster Video. This is as perfect a night shot as I've ever taken, and it took me four shots to get it right. In the first three shots, I had the camera set to be too sensitive, so the lettering and backgrounds on the backlit awnings got overexposed, and, also, even though I was using one of those round cement bumper things (used to protect some pots with trees in them) as a defacto tripod, the first three shots were still a little shakey.

This shot: completely steady, the blue and yellow on the awnings is absolutely perfect, just as it appears to my eyes, and I got some nice tail-light blurs to boot. And, if you look carefully, there's a guy sitting in the doorway in the middle (the one to the apartments upstairs, not the main Blockbuster entrance), so it's not a picture completely devoid of street life.

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Continued from here.

(Excerpted from my blog.)


Then the weirdest thing happened. My having snapped the picture did not go unnoticed by the owner of the car, who was either very angry or very flattered that I took the photo. He got in the car and drove, rather quickly, in a counter-clockwise donut, probably intending to stop right in front of my legs, but his estimation of the stopping distance was off an inch or two, and the Boxster's front bumper slightly bumped my legs (not hard enough to leave a bruise or anything, but certainly enough to shake me up a little and get the adrenaline flowing).

He asked if I was okay, and I said I was fine and then I asked meekly if I could take another photo of the car, saying that it was for Flickr, as though he'd know what that is. He said it was okay. I'm not sure if he was thrilled or peeved that I took the first photo without permission, but, after he bumped me, I deserved to take a second picture.

I tell you, that's a goddamned gorgeous shot right there, easily worth the trouble I went through to get it. So my gut feeling was right, I did get a chance opportunity to shoot an exceptional photo of a very nice car. This should easily earn me a few "Favorites" on Flickr, and could actually be the second best car photo I've ever taken, after the photo I took on Peel Street in Montreal in June 2001 of the Asian girl photographing the Austin-Healey 3000 Mark II.

And I had the nice bonus of having a somewhat interesting random encounter that I could blog about. Not that I wouldn't have blogged about my quest anyway even if nothing remotely interesting had happened.

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At the apostrophe-free Tunneys Pasture Transitway stop.

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