“Headin’ Home” – 401 Westbound, Toronto

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“5 Wedges” – Early morning drive to Uxbridge, Ontario

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“Best Foot Forward” – Young man airs our his left foot while barrelling down Highway 401

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“Welcome to Big Sky Country” – Somewhere in South-Western Ontario

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“Constellations of Dirt” – A car window and the setting sun

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“Into The Sunset” – Driving to Grand Bend, Ontario

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“Dominoes” – How long ’till the Gardiner all falls down, Toronto?

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“Toronto Put To The Test” – The Gardiner’s new LED signs remind Torontonians that we are being tested

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“Mecca” – The drive to Waikiki from Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii

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“That’s not a hairpin-turn; THIS is a hairpin-turn” – Forks of the Credit Road, Caledon, Ontario

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“Sticks” – Snow-covered trees, Highway 401, Milton

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“Miles To Go” – Quote from the Robert Frost poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ on the back of a big rig

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“Over-the-Top” – Glimpses in the side-view mirror, Rosedale Valley Road, Toronto

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“Surfacing” – Car passenger naps in the rear-seat, Willowdale, Toronto

"Surfacing" - Car passenger naps in the rear-seat, Willowdale, Toronto

Montreal – An Eastern Circumnavigation Video

This is a time-lapse video of a car trip I made around the eastern half of Île de Montréal in December of 2009.

The music track is “Comme des Enfants” by Cœur de Pirate  from her 2008 self-titled debut album. It and her recently released sophomore album “Blonde” are available on iTunes.

This video was shot with Canon 5D mark II using a 28mm f/1.8 lens and a MacGyvered/ghetto rig that involved my Induro tripod, Manfrotto head and using my laptop bag as a mounting weight. Here’s a picture of the setup:

Montreal Circumnavigation Camera Rig
Montreal Circumnavigation Camera Rig
You can trace my route around Montreal on this Google Map:

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Some of the geographic highlights:

A & O – Start and End points of the journey dominated by the large yellow house on the North-East corner of Gouin & Saint-Laurent

D – Gouin Est & 28e Av features a float-plane parking lot on the north side

F – Is the Rue Bureau Cul-de-Sac at the eastern tip of Montreal

J – Caserne Letourneux – a beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright-style building at the corner of Notre-Dame and Letourneux

K & L – Passing under the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and heading into the Ville-Marie Expressway Tunnel

N – Schwartz’s – home of the world’s greatest sandwich

“Repeat Offender” – @Purolator truck festooned with parking tickets, Toronto

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“The Reason Toronto Traffic Is So Bad” – Should this driver even be behind the wheel?

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Cute or questionable? Comment below.

“How Did That Happen?” – Car with weird body damage on the 404, Toronto

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“On The Road Again” – Golf carts in-transit

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This will be the first of two posts today. I’m sending this to test something and welcome the lovely weather here in Toronto.

Sunrise on the Gardiner

The Loads Are Longer in Texas

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“Feedback Loop” – Escher-like freeway overpasses in Texas

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This in a continuation of my fascination with Texas overpasses which began with “Crossing Over” – Overpasses near the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, which I posted last August.

“Old & New” – Mustangs on a trailer in Texas

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“Shocking” – Bumper sticker, Honda Civic, Woodbridge ??? nuff said

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“Gotta Keep The Tiger Clean” – Bizarre moving van logo

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Not sure how the tiger applies to moving, or why it appears they only decided to clean that part of the truck.

“No Saving” – Unfortunate cropping of a No Name trailer #photo #driving #iphoneography

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“I Had No Idea They Were Dangerous” – Back of bus warns of wheel chair danger, Toronto

“Headin’ Home” – Transport truck on the QEW, Ontario

“Hi!” – Sheets of snow peek out from top lip of a transport truck trailer on the QEW, Ontario

“Pan-O-Rama!!!” – Driving west on Lakeshore near The Kingsway, Toronto

This panorama is my first ever iphone panorama and it was made with the PanoLab app by Originate.

 

“Driving to the Moon” – 401 to Montreal (homage to Christopher Pratt)

Inspired by the amazing Newfoundland/Canadian artist Christopher Pratt’s painting “Driving to Venus”