Ok those ones of your partner (right?) in the fog... amazing. You didn't need to go that hard right off the bat!
Your photos are making me want to try and do more street photography again, even though I feel pretty scarred by doing it many years ago for several years. Love the one of the people crossing Portage at Arlington.
Not sure if intentional - but I found the first half really highlighted the openness of Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba. In some ways beautiful (like the lake and prairie landscapes) and in others not so much (the wide open roads). There's just so much room in this part of the world.
Ok also the beautifully lit shot down Notre Dame looking towards the Lindsay Building is great but that parking in lot in front of it just screams Ideal Opportunity For A Well-Designed 21st Century Park/Plaza. Get Montreal on the phone pronto, Winnipeg!
Hahah didn't mean for them to come off so strong, the order is just how they were taken. I could have tried to organize them all in a particular way but because of the nature of these posts looking back on the month, a strict chronological order makes sense!
Thank you! Yes I wouldn't even say I do a lot of street photography as I am mostly biking everywhere and biking isn't as conducive to doing street photography.
And yes in the beginning of the month I was taken to different, more rural parts of Manitoba which is hightlighted in the photos and which you picked up on.
I area where we were going to (where the fog photos were) was close to Crystal City in the west part of Manitoba. Over the years I've come to really like South western Manitoba more and more. I don't mean like immediately southwest like Altona, Winkler and Morden. I mean more like extreme west, pretty much just the western corner of the province. Basically anything west of Crystal City. You get a lot more elevation and places like Turtle Mountain national park and also riding mountain are there. Also Boissevain is a hidden gem of a small town. But yes I like it but also I'm scared of the sheer openness of everything, particularly coming from, and being so familiar and comfortable with density.
Yes I was just thinking of that the other day when I was biking past that parking lot on the corner of Notre dame and Ellice. There used to be a labour temple? there, I think. But yes during the summer the city put on this outdoor concert in the space, and so clearly that space has been used for other, better things in the past, albeit for only shorter times. They are doing some renos on the road just outside the Burt, might as well keep going and do that whole triangle block!
No, chronological makes sense. I waste so much time trying to curate my photos so that the photos bounce off of each other in a particular way (generally it means they contrast, so if a photo has a lot of blues, the next one shouldn't -- maybe it'll have a lot of reds or browns). It takes way too long!
I also like far western Manitoba. It's the part of the province where the towns actually look a bit historic with some consistency. Manitoba has been settled earlier than most points west, and you can feel that in the oldness of Winnipeg but practically every small town within 100km of the city is bereft of much history. There's places like Niverville and Saint Adolphe, which are basically entirely car-centric sprawl. There's places like Sainte Agathe, with a bit of history, but still mostly car centric. There's Steinbach or Beausejour with a more traditional (to my eyes, coming from Alberta) main street and grid but the buildings are much more modernist, like you'd expect out west. I am guessing that a lot of this region was very rural, with a small post office and gas station and church as the "town" up until recently. But you go west, and there's Carberry, Killarney, Virden, Wawanesa, Boissevain, Glenboro, etc with some real remnant history. Anyway... in terms of built form, aside from Winnipeg, this is my favourite area of the province.
Ok those ones of your partner (right?) in the fog... amazing. You didn't need to go that hard right off the bat!
Your photos are making me want to try and do more street photography again, even though I feel pretty scarred by doing it many years ago for several years. Love the one of the people crossing Portage at Arlington.
Not sure if intentional - but I found the first half really highlighted the openness of Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba. In some ways beautiful (like the lake and prairie landscapes) and in others not so much (the wide open roads). There's just so much room in this part of the world.
Ok also the beautifully lit shot down Notre Dame looking towards the Lindsay Building is great but that parking in lot in front of it just screams Ideal Opportunity For A Well-Designed 21st Century Park/Plaza. Get Montreal on the phone pronto, Winnipeg!
Hahah didn't mean for them to come off so strong, the order is just how they were taken. I could have tried to organize them all in a particular way but because of the nature of these posts looking back on the month, a strict chronological order makes sense!
Thank you! Yes I wouldn't even say I do a lot of street photography as I am mostly biking everywhere and biking isn't as conducive to doing street photography.
And yes in the beginning of the month I was taken to different, more rural parts of Manitoba which is hightlighted in the photos and which you picked up on.
I area where we were going to (where the fog photos were) was close to Crystal City in the west part of Manitoba. Over the years I've come to really like South western Manitoba more and more. I don't mean like immediately southwest like Altona, Winkler and Morden. I mean more like extreme west, pretty much just the western corner of the province. Basically anything west of Crystal City. You get a lot more elevation and places like Turtle Mountain national park and also riding mountain are there. Also Boissevain is a hidden gem of a small town. But yes I like it but also I'm scared of the sheer openness of everything, particularly coming from, and being so familiar and comfortable with density.
Yes I was just thinking of that the other day when I was biking past that parking lot on the corner of Notre dame and Ellice. There used to be a labour temple? there, I think. But yes during the summer the city put on this outdoor concert in the space, and so clearly that space has been used for other, better things in the past, albeit for only shorter times. They are doing some renos on the road just outside the Burt, might as well keep going and do that whole triangle block!
No, chronological makes sense. I waste so much time trying to curate my photos so that the photos bounce off of each other in a particular way (generally it means they contrast, so if a photo has a lot of blues, the next one shouldn't -- maybe it'll have a lot of reds or browns). It takes way too long!
I also like far western Manitoba. It's the part of the province where the towns actually look a bit historic with some consistency. Manitoba has been settled earlier than most points west, and you can feel that in the oldness of Winnipeg but practically every small town within 100km of the city is bereft of much history. There's places like Niverville and Saint Adolphe, which are basically entirely car-centric sprawl. There's places like Sainte Agathe, with a bit of history, but still mostly car centric. There's Steinbach or Beausejour with a more traditional (to my eyes, coming from Alberta) main street and grid but the buildings are much more modernist, like you'd expect out west. I am guessing that a lot of this region was very rural, with a small post office and gas station and church as the "town" up until recently. But you go west, and there's Carberry, Killarney, Virden, Wawanesa, Boissevain, Glenboro, etc with some real remnant history. Anyway... in terms of built form, aside from Winnipeg, this is my favourite area of the province.