Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
I try and take photographs that are slightly offbeat, but this is not always possible. Last September, I was in Montreal and had taken about a dozen shots of the main stadium from the 1976 Olympics. It would have to be one of the more dominant (and recognisable) sights anywhere in the city, especially with its controversial roof. But all the shots I took were standard views from the street and the footpath. I kept looking around for an unusual aspect to capture when I turned and saw this reflection in the large rear window of a people-mover that was parked in just the right spot. It was just the view I wanted. I shot this frame to show the rear wiper and a hint of the manufacturer's logo, but I was just lucky with the cloud formation. And if you look carefully, you can see the headrests on the vehicle's rear seats. Sometimes, a photographer just needs a bit of luck.
10 comments:
Another way cool shot! You always get me looking at photography in a whole new way. Thanks!
Hi Allan,
Hey, you're the guy who took the sensation red-canoe-on-the-lake-at-sunset picture! That is one mighty impressive benchmark.
David
Hi Allan,
It's only just struck me - as a guy who has a reputation for fun blogpost headlines, I should have titled this one after the Alfred Hitchcock classic, `Rear Window'.
David
Or perhaps, simply, "Alice"?
As In `Through The Looking Glass'?
There was a book lying near Alice on the table. She turned over the leaves to find some part that she could read, for it was all in some language she didn't know . . .
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YKCOWREBBAJ
!nos ym ,kcowrebbaJ eht eraweB'
!hctac taht swalc eht ,etib taht swaj ehT
nuhs dna ,drib bujuJ eht eraweB
'!hctansrednaB suoimurf ehT
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She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. "Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course!"
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JABBERWOCKY
'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
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Just goes to show what standard of reading I've attained, huh?
Tnaillirb ffuts
(It's okay, I was always a bit backward myself)
Have I been wrong all these years, El Tel, or was it the ``jubjub bird'' rather than ``jujub''?
I did a search. There are as many references to Jujub as there are to Jubjub, however, the more 'authoritative' sources appear to support your childhood memory of the latter.
I cannot debate the authenticity of the word, one way or another, because mine was a deprived childhood in which "Alice" was for the birds, leaving me to concentrate on Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs and, believe it or not, Dale Carnegie!!
Make of that what you will.
Dale Carnegie? That's some tale, Carnegie.
I grew up reading `Eagle' comics and just about everything else I could get my hands on.
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