much nicer than a pile of bricks from the past....best view I've seen of To. yet....nice..

Amazing color!

And I completely agree about the dracula bit. There's a flock of dark things flying just under those clouds.

Its the blood red clouds that do it and the way the sky seems like a painted backdrop. The hazy clouds are cool.

Cool photo

Wow, that looks like it was painted!

very soothing.

cheers,

I have been watching your site for a couple of months now, and while most of them felt really generic to me (I would wonder, what is the big deal? It's such a simple picture? People think his focus is a high point?!?) this is the first one where I wow, I have to respond.

Beyond your almost-computer-generated-its-so-awesome macro shot of the water drops on leaves, This is the only one I would use to a)use as a desktop and b)pass around to other photography friends.

All I'm saying is, Sam, I don't understand most of the praise you get because I feel like as another amateur photographer in Toronto, a lot of your stuff looks a)easily reproducable or b) not that original, creative, etc.

But at the end of the day, I have to admit, I wait for photos like this to show up.

Keep doing more stuff like this! I'd take it over shots of Yonge-Dundas Square anyday.

P.S. Your stop motion photography is also pretty awesome. That kinda stuff is what really got my attention to your site.

I *must* *have* a wallpaper of this. Beautiful.

What a beautiful skyline it is!

Looks incredible... i like too much

Just beautiful!

One word.
Whoa.

This is my first comment on this site despite being a daily visitor for many months now. I think the reason I come back day after day is not necessarily because each and every photo is great, many are, but because each photo seems real. More of a photographic diary of each and every day rather than the BEST photo Sam can take. I think Sam posting the best shot out of the best of that days events is why it's interesting. Black out in Toronto - Sam took up the challenge...it's black...pretty hard to photograph I think, but it was the big event for the day and Sam posted what he got for that day. That's real, and interesting I think! So thanks Sam, great site...and lovely sunset! Is that an 18-55 zoom lense you used?? Love the boldness and brightness of the moon and how you got it with the wide lense!

It's seems like that the moon could roll over the clouds. I like it for this reason.

Please, please, please... put a link to download the picture in its original size... I'd really like it as my desktop!

By the way... WONDERFUL SHOT!

Don't listen to those who tell you're just an "amateur" making "plain" pictures and so on... OK, maybe some pictures may look a little banal, but photography is an art and I believe the shots you take have a particular meaning for you.

Kudos, again!

I think that this must be one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever seen. Congrats, and thanks.

Beautiful!!

This is really beautiful. As someone already said, it looks lke a painting, but of course what artist would conceive of the color combinations that nature has at its disposal. Beautiful.

This looks like a painting out of one of my kids night time story books...all soft and soothing. Much better than the last few pics of the city streets covered in snow. I live in Ottawa and see that stuff everyday.

This shot is intoxicating.

Simply beautiful.

Very beautiful! Sam was this taken from your apartment window? or from the ground? Great shot!

Sam-
I have to say that it's the ordinary things in life that make the best photos(sunsets, benches, buildings, etc)! Kudos to you and all you have done! I always enjoy it

wow!

You captured a 'swimmer' in the sky....surreal
This planet is stunningly gorgeous but polluted.
Thank you for making me think & see

In terms of the criticism-as-praise-comment from above--whatever!--there are plenty of us who admire and appreciate all of your images. And yes, this one is especially gorgeous. The colors are incredible, and the moon couldn't be more perfectly positioned above the cloud layer. Breathtaking!

"Toronto's Eastern Skyline" could be the name of a whiny pop-punk/emo band. Nice photo, too.

The feeling of this photo reminds me of sitting in a quite plane at sunset. It looks like you were pretty high up when you were taking this picture !

Oh my! That's a beautiful shot, great colours and oh so soft clouds...

Odyssey 2005!!

I am not sure what "Karen" is referring to. This is yet another example of why your photo-blog is so widely read. Increadible, lovely photo. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Yes, a lot of the shots here are "ordinary" and "plain", but then again, so is life. What makes Sam's pictures extraordinary is the clarity, colour and sharpness.

You say they are easily reproducible? OK; show us. Sam doesn't do anything that only *he* can do, but he does them quite well and I hope some day to be able to crank out a quality picture a day like he does.

Now, back to the subject matter. Nice! A desktop-sized image would be most highly cool...! :-)

obviously a good shot, but quite depressing.. I've never seen a red so dreary

Bee-yew-ti-ful!!!!!

But I'm trying to understand why it is of the eastern skyline if it is the moon at sunset. Or is it the moon at sunrise? Or is Sam just trying to confuse me (not hard to do!)? :-)

I love this picture. It's so calming and soothing, although it does have that foreboding element to it as well. I was wondering what your policy on people downloading your pictures to use as personal computer backgrounds?

Dam Sam, You am the Man!!!!

I started visiting this site everyday about four weeks ago. Since then from time to time I look at the city and say to myself that's the way Sam sees Toronto cause he does see Toronto.

These photos are filled with information, they are candid, they reproduce a point of view and a moment, they make me say bingo! so often.

I check out your site every day and really enjoy it. This picture takes the cake!

Lovely Shot! behtarin azin nemishod!

Hi Sam - You shot this with the 18-55, huh? I remember a while back you got the 70-200 f/4L and I was very excited to see what you'd do with it...and you did do some amazing stuff. But I've noticed that you haven't used it in a while (for a posted picture)--what happened? I would think it'd be great for this type of shot, to bring in the moon even more. I mean, maybe you just didn't have it on you (certainly not as portable as the 18-55), but if you ever find it collecting dust, I know someone *ahem!* who'd be happy to take it off your hands ;)

I've been checking out your site for a while but haven't ever commented...though not for lack of being impressed. I do think this is a great shot; wonderful colors and your usual knack for framing. Keep it up!

Beautiful skyline, BUT same moon as here in Florida. I will have to have moonlight run...

It is Sams Diversity of style that brings so many people flocking to this site everyday to see what suprising new photo will be awaiting them. It is absolutely wonderful how he can change from one form to another so adeptly. Its like a suprise waiting wrapped in a box to open the ddoi page in the morning.

To appreciate Sams work a person must have the ability to accept a variety of style and appreciate the subtlety of his eye. As is with all great things that are subtle, his work is sometimes mistaken as being easily done. I think its a token of his skill that it appears so.

I think often photographers get trapped within the mindframe of a certain style or search too much for stylistic elements of technique that they want to criteque. Yet somehow lose sight of the entire image and the enjoyment that a simple subtle shot captured at the right place in just the right way can can bring to a viewer with an open mind. The key here is that sam sees with such an open mind and captures what he sees without overthinking technical aspects or stylistic forms to the point of rendering the image into an artifical looking somehow detached object that viewers have trouble relating too. This is all too often a common flaw amongst artists who too isolate themselves and their work from the audience.

Kathy, it is the moon at moonrise, in the east

Excellent analysis of why we're here, Scott.

Ned, I know it's the moon at moonrise, but the sky looks like a sunset in the west!

C'est vrai que c'est splendide.

Félicitation, c'est un plaisir d'aller voir la photo du jour tous les matins.

Merci!

AMAZING PICTURE ;o)
Beautiful moon/sunset!

wow! i can't say how much i loved it.

Absolutely beautiful! Looks like something from another world. Great work.

Simply amazing!

This photo seems otherworldly to me. It's a great shot and the lower thirds colours just seem like another planet. The slightly lighter ribbon tinge in the bottom left hand corner makes it appear as if there's another sun just gone down. Great photography!

Wonderful, enchanting, and inspiring shot!

So red, and the sun so sharp! I love the color variations in the sky as well.

As I read the other comments, the thought occured to me that this kind of a picture, beautiful though it may be, impresses me less than a lot of the "ordinary scene" shots - for example, the pile-of-bricks a few days previous. My reasoning - naive, probably - is that in this shot, the sunset/moonrise in question was stunning, and a sitting duck, and the photographer "just had to press the trigger"; in an "ordinary scene" shot, the photographer is able to recognize and extract something beatiful from a scene I would just stroll past obliviously. So the moral here for me is, "keep your eyes open, there's something beautiful to see every day." Thanks, I'm really enjoying your site. - Mike

the dracula sentiment is quite understandable, since there is a scene just like this in the movie "bram stoker's dracula"
all in all, breath-taking colors. that's the kind of stuff u only c in paintings by monet. i'm thinking darker vanilla sky.

This shot looks like it was taken at 30,000 feet pointed directly out at the horizon. Very nice.