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This picture could be easily the "farside" of the Toronto Islands, facing south across the lake. Especially the barky trees... I don't know off-hand what those are, but we have a lot of them hereabouts.
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Oh-oh! Did I delete a picture, just now???
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Lectrichead
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No, I was trying to delete the test thread in anticipation of you opening this up to users.
You must have posted right as I was deleting it so it kept the thread running.
I believe those are Shagbark Hickory. They tend to grow in stands around here in some places. The particular area where I photographed this had a stand of various sizes.
You must have posted right as I was deleting it so it kept the thread running.
I believe those are Shagbark Hickory. They tend to grow in stands around here in some places. The particular area where I photographed this had a stand of various sizes.
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The Toronto islands are covered with that stuff - doesn't match with the "mainland" at all. And because I spent so much time there (islands) in a sort of isolation - little or no shelter, very cold, gray skies in the off-season etc., I tended to associate the place ‒ incl. the @#$%^&*! weird trees ‒ with a sort of loneliness and discomfort. Weird trees were scraggly and provided zero shelter in the cold gray off-season, empty amusement park etc.
Btw before the "Leslie Spit" got built out into the lake the islands were like Point Pelee: a sort of go-to place for birds. And there was an official nature preserve, which as a parks concessions worker I had access to.
Although (lacking a telephoto lens for my Pentax) I did not photograph birds much, "35mm photography" was a big part of my island experience. Such a step up from my Brownie which was all that I had through the 1960's.
But I started to exasperate family members from the get-go, "carefully setting up" my earliest snapshots.
Ha, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White and Danny Lyon were still a ways off for me but nevertheless I saw a "tableau" on 127 size, black and white roll film.
Btw before the "Leslie Spit" got built out into the lake the islands were like Point Pelee: a sort of go-to place for birds. And there was an official nature preserve, which as a parks concessions worker I had access to.
Although (lacking a telephoto lens for my Pentax) I did not photograph birds much, "35mm photography" was a big part of my island experience. Such a step up from my Brownie which was all that I had through the 1960's.
But I started to exasperate family members from the get-go, "carefully setting up" my earliest snapshots.
Ha, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White and Danny Lyon were still a ways off for me but nevertheless I saw a "tableau" on 127 size, black and white roll film.
