Death of another blog...

This blog isn't getting nearly enough feedback for the effort I was putting into it...

So I'm going to kill it for now...

It'll probably return in another form in the future... stay tuned!

Spidey by Delineated

Spidey
Originally uploaded by Delineated.

It's not my photo, but I love the homage that Carrie did for me:

"It's like Fotograf.416 (Mike), only upside down and with a costume. :P"

It Snowed in Toronto

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

The title pretty much sums it up... I can't say I'm too excited about snow in October. In December on the other hand... LET IT SNOW! Gotta get my board'n on...

Cootes Paradise HDR

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

I fuck'n love this shot! One of my best in months. It was produced with two long exposure shots.

If you don't know Cootes Paradise, it's a wonderful place to take a walk around the water in Hamilton...

100k Views!

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

That's right fucker! 100 000 Views!

Too bad I missed it rolling over... oh well. I'll make sure it catch it at a million.

Toronto Zombie Walk 2006

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

I've gotten way to lazy with my posts... again. I'm going to try to keep these short so I actually do them!

Toronto Zombie Walk 2006 pics are up! My dumb ass was shooting at way too low of a shutter speed, but I still managed to get a few good shots. Check them out!

Sell Your Soul for a Black DS Lite

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

If you're an avid gamer, or a Nintendo fanboy, you likely know that yesterday North America received the Black (Onyx) and (Coral) Pink DS Lite. I'm definitely not a video game junky, but since receiving my first original gameboy at the age of 10, I've been a portable videogame addict.

Yesterday, over lunch, I went out on a mission to Future Shop to pick up a little black companion to my PSP. To my dismay, Future Shop informed me that they had not received their shipment yet. Upon leaving the store, my mind wondered as to were else I could acquire my latest gadget. Looking up and to my right the answer stared down at me in red, white and blue: Walmart.

Overcoming the sickness building in my stomach and the growing guilt, I entered. Sure enough, in the electronics department, there lied at least 20 of these prized systems. The buying power of this giant is truly astounding.

Europe 2006 - Copenhagen Part3

Copenhagen has some stunning parks that truly come alive in the summer, full of bathing beauties, beer drinking boys and angular architecture. We also stumbled across this fun miniature recreation of early Copenhagen.

Europe 2006 - Copenhagen Part2

Copenhagen has an amazingly modern metro system. Everything is less than five years old, automated, clean... and has lots of wonderful big windows for taking photos.

My Toyz @ 10mm

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

My Toyz with a Nikon D200 + Sigma 10-20mm.

Alley Jaunt 2006

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Originally uploaded by fotograf.416.

I'm feeling way too lazy to write about this...

Read my blogTO post here

Europe 2006 - Copenhagen Part1

Back to the Europe blogging...

Copenhagen is an amazing city! My enjoyment of the city was due, in no small part, to Christine's brother Dave being a wonderful host and tour guide. Dave kicked off an amazing week by meeting us at the airport, Carlsberg in hand!

Much of the first few days in Copenhagen were spend wondering the city, and riding around on the free bikes. That's right, free bike rentals! Just pop in a coin (equal to about $4), ride the bike as long as you like, then return it and get your coin back. What a system!

One of the best part of Copenhagen is a strip by the canals where rich people eat over priced food at stunning cafes, and poor people get drunk sitting by the water. It's a wonderful example of how people of different socioeconomic classes can coexist and share a wonderful space. A scene like this would never happen in North America. Public drinking and rich mixed with poor are both severely frowned upon.

Caribana 2006

About two weeks ago was Toronto's Annual Caribana Festival.

It was pure insanity as a million people crowded the Lake Shore. The floats and costumes were amazing, but based on my view statistics, you guys only seem to care about the lovely ladies...

Who am I to argue? Give the people what they want I say...

Hillside 2006

As another summer passes, so does another Hillside music festival. This is by far my favorite music festival in Ontario. So relaxed. Such great music! And they even have fabulous food!

I wish I had better photos, but this really isn't about the photography for me. It was much more about hanging out with my good friends Christine, Laura and Dave.

Good times... I can't wait for next year's festival!

Style In Progress 2006 - Dundas Square

In my humble opinion, the Sunday of SIP in the back alleys of Queen St. is the true Style In Progress. That being said, the Saturday event at Yonge & Dundas Square is always good times with Hip Hop artist, BBoys & BGirls, and of course plenty of graffiti.

Unfortunately the weather was shite, which really put a damper on the event, but the fans and artists still came out in full force. Although some might argue that graffiti on a canvas isn't real graffiti, this festival is about the art form as much as it is about the culture.

I would however have appreciated more of a focus on the current issues the graffiti community faces, but I'll take the party and leave the politics for another day.

Style In Progress 2006

Style In Progress this year was TOO MUCH FUN!

This was my first outing with my brand spank'n new Nikon D200 camera and Sigma 10-20mm lens. The super wide angel lens was everything I dreamed it would be. Never before have I been in narrow alleys and actually been able to capture entire pieces without making love to the wall behind me. What a joy!

Beyond my own personal camera masturbation, the graffiti this year was mind blowing! So many amazing pieces, as you can see from my insane number of photos posted here.

Special props to fucking insane We Kill You crew. I don't even know how to describe their ghost/tv/sticker/mask-wearing insanity besides saying it was brilliant and you need to check the pics.

I normally post the best photos near the top, but with the mind blowing number of photos posted, I've decided to just plop them down here in chronological order. Some of the best pics are near the end of the post, so don't be lazy, scroll scroll scroll...