A car passes a parking garage at King and Simcoe, Toronto.

Seen from across Roy Thomson Hall at King and Simcoe. September is here, which means things like chilly weather and moving and work and stress are starting to overlap, so naturally I\’ve gotten sick. I\’ve moved into a beautiful old house in Little Italy with two other Jens and a cat named Nin and a [...]

Can you feel it?

In Montreal, we clawed for the skies and not even gravity could deny us. It was my reaffirmation that only in our madness do we feel the most alive and clear-sighted.

Light trails remain in the wake of a car passing beneath the neons of 三六九 (Three Six Nine) Shanghai Restaurant. Seen from an overpass near Central station in Hong Kong.

Time for some full disclosure. Or, more accurately I guess, a blunt address to what\’s already fully disclosed. When I shoot from a rooftop, my eye is immediately attracted to certain things, so each photograph often takes on one of the following themes: 1. Postcardy scenes (ie, landscapes with 90-degree angles featuring the CN Tower [...]

Fellow Toronto photographers Sara Collaton, Tom Ryaboi, and I went on a great new roof last night, but those photos are still floating in the mystical Lightroom machine for now. Instead I thought I\’d repost a shot originally uploaded to Flickr, taken last year in mid-August on one of those perfect late summer nights you [...]

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.