Colette & Jalna

Peaceful suburbia. You do emphasize the flatness (sweep?) of the scene by making the driveway a much larger part of it than the people, or the buildings in the distance. If I had to write an essay on this (don't worry, I won't) I'd talk about a feeling of liberation, with faint contempt.

Somehow, winter doesn't seem to cast the best light on this place. (BTW - we still have snow cover - better than brown grass.)

Having lived in midtown Toronto for close to 50 years, Bob, I'm still adjusting to the wide open spaces here. They and the paucity of pedestrians suggest a ghost town where a few diehards are hanging on.

We've had uncharacteristically warm weather. The high so far today is 8C.

Outstanding street shot!

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Thanks, William.

An interesting image of a featureless expanse enlivened by the stop sign and the two people moving across it. Your photos are always intriguing.

Thank you very much, Jean. After years of living in a high-density neighbourhood in a high-density city, I'm finding the sprawl here intriguing, too.

Nice street scene.

Thanks, Jaap.

Urban peace, some desolation, I don't know how to express accurately my feeling looking at this, I have it enlarged in 27" screen and kept fascinated.... but can't explain why.***********************

I like photographs with that effect myself, Xata. Thanks.

I,like the pastel shades, the soft light.

Thanks, Steve.

When I saw the title I thought for a moment it was the names you gave the two people crossing. Or maybe that it was an allusion to a movie title. Still like that idea.
I'm also liking this new spaciousness of yours.
8 degrees however sounded pretty cold, and I thought perhaps you were being ironic about it being warm, when I remembered that Canadians very reasonably use Celsius and not Fahrenheit.

Thanks, Sarah. Maybe I'm doing all these long shots because all the space here makes them necessary. I grew up on Fahrenheit but now find it disconcerting. Canada never finished converting to the metric system, by the way. So now we have a charming mix. Real estate, clothes, and produce, for example, are sold in Imperial measures.

Almost like Sarah P I was wondering how you knew the names of the two people on the roadway, then I realised that is the way you describe your intersections :-))

I quite like the diffused light........................and I like the way you've composed this to emphasise the emptiness! Not as dynamic as your street scenes from central Toronto, but strangely fascinating all the same!

The comment below was intended as a reply to you, Keith, in case you missed it. Didn't click the right button.

Ha, ha - thanks John. Got it now!

The lack of dynamism here has been hard to get used to you. Of course it's largely due to the lower population density here. If you're in a crosswalk at an intersection, for example, turning cars wait for you to cross. Apparently that's the law here. That would never work in Toronto, with its higher density of traffic.

This has an Eastern European vibe?