I hear there\’s been a lot of fog in Toronto recently, and I\’m starting to feel a wee bit homesick. I didn\’t bring my main Lightroom library to Asia for safety and space reasons, instead buying a blank 1 TB portable external, but I do have a few oldies kicking around on this here Macbook. [...]

I considered titling this photo more cleverly because I enjoy that sort of thing (if you haven\’t noticed by now). But then I realized that I didn\’t want or need to say very much. I LOVE THIS CITY.

It\’s been a while since I\’ve done one of these, hasn\’t it? Almost exactly a year. The original intent was to create a series of dryer shots and tint each one a different colour. The going\’s slow, currently averaging at 1.5 dryers per year. But even at that rate, I should get through Roy G. [...]

EDIT: Tuesday has been confirmed! …Not literally there, which is kind of unfortunate. But I\’d still like to meet you. If you\’ve been following my work here on Pencilprism or on my Flickr, I\’m guessing you at least mildly enjoy looking at Toronto from its rooftops and streets, the insides of crane booths and washing [...]

I don\’t even get HDTV in this thing. Life\’s a chore.

BREAKING NEWS: My digital SLR and I have been reunited at long last! A Purolator truck arrived at my house. Inside this truck was a package. Inside this package was a sheet of bubble wrap. Inside this bubble wrap was a crumpled page from a Korean newspaper (I guess my technician was Korean). On this [...]

Peleng fisheye, how I adore thee for thy lens flares. Some optics 101: lens flares (the real kind, and not the tacky Photoshop stuff frowned upon by many a self-respecting graphic designer) are caused by very bright light either within or outside the frame reflecting within the glass element of the lens, hitting the sensor [...]

This idiom, which translates almost identically between French and English (\”the writing on the wall\” — although the French version sounds much better) originates from the Biblical book of Daniel. Supernatural fingers appear out of nowhere as King Belshazzar of Babylon and his court are having a feast, spelling the imminent demise of the Babylonian [...]

After all, you can only do so much with toilet paper.

The Royal Ontario Museum\’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal is a curious glass object. Much like a prism, and much like a camera lens. The Crystal — representing aesthetic controversy. To like or dislike it, you must ask yourself, because public opinion varies too widely. The prism — representing optical anomaly. To achieve refraction, you must shine [...]