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West Highland Creek - everlasting
Today my seemingly everlasting journey up and down the Highland Creek watershed coincides with another everlasting event. For you see, I am currently in the midst of what can only be described as a camera battery miracle - a veritable battery Chanukah, if you will. Allow me to explain...
On my last trip along the East Don, just as I headed under the DVP, my camera started flashing the "Low Battery" alert, which usually indicates that I have about 10-20 more photos to take (depending on the use of flash, zoom, and other such functions) before the power completely craps out. Well, that day I went on to take 93 more photos and, by the end of my trip, the battery still hadn't died! Now, this in itself is not that spectacular. With judicious use I've occasionally managed 50 or more extra pictures after the fuel gauge had hit empty. But 93 was at very least a record, so I left the battery in and went out today, to the West Highland Creek, to see how far past "E" I could push it - starting where I began another trip back in July, I head south now, through Birkdale Park:
Birkdale Park becomes Ravine Park, but the creek remains the same:
OK, I know I just said that I'd stop taking pictures of shopping carts, but I simply couldn't pass on this one; upturned and mounted on a newspaper box, I feel it rather deftly conveys the irreverent iconoclasm of a classic Duchampian "readymade" while, at the same time, makes a prescient commentary on our modern consumerist society, caught in the banalities of a 24 hour news cycle:
Through Brimley Road and into Thomson Memorial Park:
Through Thomson Memorial Park and still into Thomson Memorial Park:
The creek extends the park through a hydro corridor and past Scarborough General Hospital:
Under McCowan Road and into Bendale Park:
I finish the day south of Lawrence, where I met up with the creek via its Southwest branch back in January:
120 more photos in all, and the battery is still chugging away! Now, I'm not a religious man, but I believe it is now safe to say that I am in possession of a battery sent down to earth by God almighty himself!
...or, I have a camera with a slightly malfunctioning battery indicator.
In either case, rejoice!
Today my seemingly everlasting journey up and down the Highland Creek watershed coincides with another everlasting event. For you see, I am currently in the midst of what can only be described as a camera battery miracle - a veritable battery Chanukah, if you will. Allow me to explain...
On my last trip along the East Don, just as I headed under the DVP, my camera started flashing the "Low Battery" alert, which usually indicates that I have about 10-20 more photos to take (depending on the use of flash, zoom, and other such functions) before the power completely craps out. Well, that day I went on to take 93 more photos and, by the end of my trip, the battery still hadn't died! Now, this in itself is not that spectacular. With judicious use I've occasionally managed 50 or more extra pictures after the fuel gauge had hit empty. But 93 was at very least a record, so I left the battery in and went out today, to the West Highland Creek, to see how far past "E" I could push it - starting where I began another trip back in July, I head south now, through Birkdale Park:
Birkdale Park becomes Ravine Park, but the creek remains the same:
OK, I know I just said that I'd stop taking pictures of shopping carts, but I simply couldn't pass on this one; upturned and mounted on a newspaper box, I feel it rather deftly conveys the irreverent iconoclasm of a classic Duchampian "readymade" while, at the same time, makes a prescient commentary on our modern consumerist society, caught in the banalities of a 24 hour news cycle:
Through Brimley Road and into Thomson Memorial Park:
Through Thomson Memorial Park and still into Thomson Memorial Park:
The creek extends the park through a hydro corridor and past Scarborough General Hospital:
Under McCowan Road and into Bendale Park:
I finish the day south of Lawrence, where I met up with the creek via its Southwest branch back in January:
120 more photos in all, and the battery is still chugging away! Now, I'm not a religious man, but I believe it is now safe to say that I am in possession of a battery sent down to earth by God almighty himself!
...or, I have a camera with a slightly malfunctioning battery indicator.
In either case, rejoice!
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