I like the light rays following the angle of the roof. The yellowish/green lights in the background are a very nice compliment to the overall feel of this foto. Love the rust colors, too!

Stunning... looks like that building is made to be photographed.

I am not enough english friendly to explain what I feel, so I will do it in french ;-)

Epoustouflant, fantastique, stupéfiant, sensationnel ! Une pure merveille. La cristallisation de la lumière est tout simplement extraordinaire, et les détails... les détails ! Ciselés avec tant de précision ! Une telle maîtrise de la chambre noire digitale est tout simplement prodigieuse...

Merci, Sam. Vous êtes un être rare, mêlant un talent remarquable à une générosité hors du commun.

Avec mes plus respectueuses et amicales salutations, ainsi que mes remerciements les plus sincères.
Y.

PS:
Explain to us ! Please !!!!!!

great still life shot and nice lighting.

sick shot, great color, the light beams pull my eyes right to it

i like your pics and blog...

I ask myself how you do this shots... Makes me a little bit nervous :-)..
The light is great and the colours...uuhh...

I found this site accidentally.I meant to look for the meaning of dose at fist.But when i goole it ,i got this site.English is not my mother language .So maybe i don't express myself very well.Your pictures are pretty and they make me to love Toronto.Are you professional cameraman?

Looks like the makings of a time machine! Cool picture.

oh no your shooting mode has disappeared this time! otherwise nice shot.

simply beautiful. u've managed to get perfect lighting in every corner.that's amazing

I would have put this pic the following day after the other one on the left side. Just to put them in sucession would have been cool to flip back and forth....and now when I see this one 1.5 months later, it doesnt do as much for me. Just my opinion though! Still a cool shot with the machine in the foreground ;)

wow! sometimes when i see your pictures, i cant help but wonder, "did this image really exist in this world? its so beautiful!" thanks for capturing those moments for all of us!

Another fantastic photo from the Don Valley Brickworks. But this one it's not so appealing like the other ones that you've show us viewers. Its brilliant but there's something missing. Is it my impression or the "daily dose of imagery" template its different? : )

It's a few days late. But congrads on National Post article and photoblog award. You truely deserve all these.

Amazing depth to this photo, can't help thinking you've done a High Dynamic Range photo with photoshop, is it possible that this photo is actually about 5 different exposures merged?. Or is it just brilliant lighting that has allowed such a rich photo to be taken.

Great shot anyway.

I discovered your site yesterday after seeing the article in the Post. I moved to Calgary from Ontario 7 years ago.
Your blog makes me home-sick.
That's a good thing.
I have shared the site with friends and family I know that have migrated out west also.
Thank you for sharing your photos.

large res would be appreciated.

I love the light in the brick works. its makes for really great pictures. Althought I'm sure most of it is talant to be able to capture the light so well. I love this series of pictures.

I keep wondering that there were, apparently, no "no tresspassing", signs around the brick works. Strikes me as odd for such a hazardous potential.

It would be neat if someone who knows could identify the machines purpose, which holds true for the other views you've taken of the place. It is super photogenic and you've caught some excelent light in the place.

Surely belongs in a spy movie.

Sam, quite often I find your titles just as intriguing as your fantastic photos. Today, they are truly a perfect match!!
Thanks, once again.

basta cazzo

creepy! it looks like it should be in a horror movie. great shot tho!

I love industrial photographs they have a beauty all of their own

This looks like a missing level in Half Life 2. I love it!

I'm baffled, didn't you post this picture already?

Wonderfully composed and lit. Those rays of light are amazing. I like the crispness of the shot as well. Very nice one.

This photo looks suspisiously like something by Michael Reichman at The Luminous Landscape. Can you comment. Do a Google on Brickworks. This would be extremely dissapointing.

i would love to see a version focusing on those streaks of light.

Great stuff, I started a similar photblog about a year ago, a picture a day from alaska.

Sam (and Sam's blog fans), I have many thoughts but i'll try to be brief. I almost commented once before, on the shot from Oxford with the bicycle and the pink petals. Loved that one.

I too found your site by accident, can't even remember how, and have made it my home page. Through you i too have come to love Toronto. After the abandoned trash bin photo I sent away for five subway buttons from Spaces -- i've never been to Toronto! I happened to have worn my Spadina pin the day before you posted your Spadina Ave. photo.

I deeply love this photo and that it is posted weeks after the other photos from that location. There's still so more for us to learn about this visual and emotional space, but to look too quickly in succession would make the images less mysterious. More easy to see and forget.

On a broader note, while they are almost always beautiful, some of your images have seemed -- to me -- a little cold, a little empty. Mostly the ones of buildings against the sky. I sometime wonder why that is. But this photo is as warm and inviting as a picture of an amazing face: Is it the fleshly color of rust? The presence of small details? I have a lot to learn about photography and composition. Is it the arrangement of circles and planes and angles and colors that makes one photo sing and another merely hum quietly to itself?

Anyway, thanks for the daily glimpse beyond my own little corner of the world (Oregon), and the inspiration!

Kelly

Ooooh, any chance of a hi-res picture? I'm in need of a new desktop background, and this looks wonderful!

(for the record I run a 1680x1050 screen ;)

It appears that I was in error in suggesting that this photo loked suspisious. Please accept my public apology for casting some doubt on your excellent work.

Sacred Machine? It really is. The beams of light came down to warm it up, to take it's loneliness away and it's sadness. What a deep picture Sam. What a picture.

Excellent!
Nothing more to say.

Hey Sam,
I've had your website as my homepage for about 4-5 months and this photo finally made me post a comment.
Your photos of the brickworks are absolutely stunning. Something about the crispness of your photos is very pleasant to the eye. Awesome work man.

H.

there's a lot to keep the eye busy in this photograph. i like the capturing of the many spots of light leaking in from all over -- like shining a flashlight thru a pourous slice of cheese.

interesting ghostly glow coming from the row of openings at the furthest point in this perspective. those must be windows. i wonder if it is the material in the glass that diverts certain areas of the light spectrum in that way.

Great shot. How did you get the light rays?

Great shot!

I like sites atmospheres like this very much!

Dear Harold McNamara,

How are you? Are you the one who knew Martin Ho ten years ago? If yes, please reply me at martinhe2005@yahoo.com.hk . I miss you. If not, sorry for the mistake.

Best,
Martin
February 1, 2006

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