John FitzGerald's photos

Amadou and Mariam at the Luminato festival in Toronto. For Sight and Sound, their "Coulibaly": www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kp9cmTNaMw

Seen from Davisville station.

Yonge Street, Toronto, featuring, perhaps, a dejected Polish fan.

Kensington Gardens, London. The memorial was completed in 1875; it was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and the statue of Prince Albert is by John Henry Foley. In the background is Royal Albert Hall, opened in 1871. It was designed by Capt. Francis Fowke and Major-Gen. H. Y. D. Scott of the Royal Engineers; the dome was designed by another engineer, Rowland Mason Ordish. The PiP has a view from the other side of the memorial.

The percentage of people smiling is very high at Niagara Falls, at least on the Canadian side. The American side is more upscale. I once watched a show on the Buffalo PBS station about how Niagara Falls, New York, was trying to figure out how to get as many tourists as Niagara Falls, Ontario without being as crass and vulgar. There are a lot of happy people at Niagara-on-the-Lake, though, which is definitely not crass and vulgar. This is the Canadian Falls, according to Canadians, or the Horseshoe Falls, according to everyone else. It is in fact shared by Canada and the US (we get most of it, though).

The red sign actually says "Danger due to falling debris", but I liked it better with "falling debris" blown out.

Evening rush hour at Victoria Station, London, August 2012. This is a re-post, although it may not have appeared on ipernity before.. ==== And the photo in the note at top left is a cropped version.

I like the large version (click the pic or type Z to see it).

I was walking down Spadina Avenue when suddenly a postcard broke out.

The Toronto-Dominion Centre is the world headquarters of TD Bank. It has two towers (far left and far right) and a banking pavilion (the short building on the left) by Mies and two more in his style Through the trees, first from the right, you get a glimpse of Scott Tan de Bibiana's contribution, which deviates a bit from Mies to accommodate the old Art Deco stock exchange. Mies's three buildings were his last major work. The bronze cow at bottom right is one of seven by Joe Fafard constituting an installation called The Pasture . It and the lawn it's on provide an alternative to the severity of Mies's design. At lunchtime the lawn is covered not only with office workers having lunch but also with families who have brought picnics. The building across the street behind the banking pavilion is Commerce Court West, by Pei Cobb Fried and Partners, Behind it is Commerce Court North by York and Sawyer. They're part of the headquarters of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The architects of record for the TD Centre are John B. Parkin and Associates and Bregman + Hamann.