One year ago (though it honestly feels like a lifetime), some fellow urban explorer/photographer friends and I were lucky enough to climb one of Toronto’s most amazing high-rises—one that we had often dreamed of visiting but never thought possible until the opportunity suddenly presented itself. After that serendipitous day, a photo Tom Ryaboi took of [...]

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 [...]

안녕하세요! That\’s about the only Korean I\’ve learned in my 5-day stay. Oh, and 감사합니다, and indeed I must thank you for your patience. Photo backlog is enormous, writing has been sub-par, and the spambot army is waging war with my mass-deletion sprees. Flying back to Hong Kong in a few hours, and I won\’t [...]

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. [...]

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.

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 [...]