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.

I entered my second decade today. My first thought, although by no means an unfamiliar one, was that I\’m rapidly running out of time to blame my ignorance and flaws on my youth. Age makes too convenient a scapegoat for many things. This happens to be one of the reasons why I resent ageist people, [...]

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 [...]

It feels good to be here again. A seasoned acrobat would have faltered at the location we were able to revisit last night. While I succeeded in my goal of re-taking this particular shot, I found myself spending much of yesterday simply enjoying the feeling of being where we were. It had been a long [...]

This is the start of a magnificent love affair, I can tell. Caught up in various real-life duties and in seeing the work of Mike Quigg, Miles Storey, and Brian Day last night at their show, I neglected to upload a photo and share yesterday\’s big news — I have a new baby! It was [...]