Man, super nice color and feel. Seems almost like an artist's rendering.

is it just me or does that building look like it's on fire?

nice photo nonetheless.

This photo is very nice, im assuming it was a cloudy day, great composition and the strong cartoonish color gives it a sureal look, nice photo

such steady hands for 1/20!! Very nice photo

We have a building just like that here in Manchester UK - lovely crisp shot it seems to jump out at you

Sweet shot! Can you give an idea of what kind of sharpening you used on that?

Wow! My favourite one for ages. Love the contrast between the ultra-modern in the distance and the comparatively old flatiron building in the foreground. Colours are great. Somehow looks wider angle than 17mm, too -- maybe it's because of the 'inbuilt' distortion in the building itself...

Keep it up!

Wow. The contrast between the new and old buildings really makes it look like a photomontage.
Nice composition...

Wonderful light and colors. I really love your shots.

Stunning - this is a great shot! I love the perspective and colors. Excellent!

I'd like to be the first to say:

Wow.

I especially love the contrast of the flatiron building's sharp colors against the backdrop of gray buildings.

Magnifique

very cool house!

Splendid !
ill keep checking for updates religiously
Well done again!
Cheers

You nailed it as always Sam. Amazing shot, really vivid and like a scene from a movie, kinda makes me think of Gotham or Metropolis! :)

You captured really nice colors in this shot, Sam. Admire your work

It feels like a comic book movie, like Gotham city (but more cheerful). I think it's because it's the juxtaposition of old and new -- and the sharpness.

very nice composition and nice angle.
perfect sharpness and contrast...

Very nice shot. I like the muted colours, sort of dull gray with the red brick. Any chance of a wallpaper version?

Wow, I love this picture! It has a surreal look to it, especially with the smokey windows of the firestation. Almost looks like something out of Gotham city.

Excellent picture :)

wow this looks futuristic, like they stuck that old building in the middle of all this new age city, very cool.

this is amazing sam... sometimes its hard to find new words for something thats amazing but this is truly special.
its like a painting, did you alter it in photoshop?
well done

wow.. this shot seems like one straight out from a movie.. the richness of the color and the overcast sky and the smoke from the top of the building creates a cinematic mood.. great work! ;p

Excellent shot Sam. The tiny Flatiron building amidst the huge concrete towers gives a look of history and heritage in an otherwise modern city. Keep it up!

Yeah it was pretty grey yesterday. Kinda liked it that way. That building is very cool to take a photo of. It is very unique. You can see Old Toronto and new Toronto just by the different buildings.

This is stunning Sam. This is my favourite photo since the pumpkin patch. It has a very dreamlike, almost background matte painting quality to it. I'd be very interested to see what kind of processing was applied to this image.

What a fresh take on a much-photographed building! Marvellous!

The best photo of Toronto I've ever seen.

oh my god... is that building on fire or is it a cloud? you are so lucky to live in toronto, i found it beautiful. i live in marcos juarez, cordoba, argentina and this is so diferent, a little town, lovely, but soooo diferent. great to see your pictures.

Really amazing! This shot have something of surreal. Looks like the buildings were put there as a Lego construction. Great work!

Wow! what a nice shot. Razor sharp clarity as if I am standing in the scene it self.

I like the mixing of vintage and modern architecture! Great capture. Very crisp focus.

Beautiful sheen to this one! Actually saw you with your tripod on the northeast corner of this block last night. I was driving by and unfortunately traffic did not allow me the chance to stop and say hi.

I want this on my desktop!! Excellent photo.

Nice shot ! I like it.

The left building in the back seems to go from out of Metropolis.

I insist, but it will be really really great when it will be possible for each shot to see the "before" and the "after" your digital darkroom spells :-p

Kind regards,
Y.

soooo good

desktop sized image avalable?

hey, that's one of the coolest pictures i've seen of the flatiron building (probably one of the most-photographed Toronto icons). Nice.

Great shot!

I think the photo is fantastic. The saturated colours and well defined lines brings my attention the the subject straight away. *applause*

>Hello, continue to enjoy your wonderful photos everyday, especially today since I used to work at the Old Spaghetti Factory in that area, and I love that old building on the corner, several music videos have been shot there

Ken from Toronto
Cedar Grove, NJ

I love this city! You are the best, Sam.

the old and the new

old looks now

old looks anchored

great contrast

cool visual story

What!! You guys have no snow??? Why did I leave TO! This shot makes me miss my old neighborhood.
Another great shot Sam.

Great art has something that speaks to different things to many people. By reading the comments up to this point, this picture definately qualifies. I'm just so happy that a photographer of your calibre happens to live and shoot in my home city. Might I be the fourth or the fifth person by now to humbly request this in wallpaper size?

Magnificent!

Wow that looks like something out of Project Gotham Racing 3, if they were ever to put in Toronto as a city. Sort of surreal. Good job.

As i've said before, your tones are always intriguing. Well... not always always but this picture is an excellent example. Keep up the wonder!

hmmm, not meaning to take anything away from this great picture, but i WAS wondering if YOU would ever do this most-cliché toronto motif! heh!(for all non-torontonians, it's in almost every tourist guide of toronto ever published). in vindication of this picture, i admire your choice NOT to do persepective correction on this shot (which, in the end, makes it not-cliché!)

The best of the year, so far!

wait! now i know! there's a movement in photography right now which puts vernacular photography on a big pedestal. fotos that LOOK like they were taken straight out of a family album of banal snapshots... but with SUBTLE differences, even if the difference is, say, just an extremely high technical quality unlikely of a snapshop. not saying you're toady to anything as low as a "movement", but the analysis sortof fit in with the picture of nathan phillips from the day before...

GOTHAM CITY!!!

Nice contrast between desaturation and color...

Beautiful colors and scene! Also very smooth.

Wow! Another story-teller picture of you! Purely beautiful.
I have to confirm AndyM's comments about the same building in Manchester UK. There are lots and lots of such buildings here in Manchester however, none of them with such a back ground though.
Try our city once, you will love it when you see it.

I've been an addict of your site for a few weeks now, but this is one of my faves. In addition to being an amazing shot - the colour and structure of the building just pop! - it also reminds me of a happy time when my kids were small and I would walk with them through that area to meet their dad for lunch at the fountain (just west of the building). Thanks, and keep them coming!

How cool is this. The strange building makes me remember a dream I had. The whole picture is kind of dreamlike.

wow...toronto is such a beautiful city. your pictures are great...thank you for the daily eye candy.

Great shot. Classic.

The building that looks like it's on fire is the TD tower at BCE place, the base of which you might remember from this picture: (http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_architecture/060104_1419.shtml).

I think the "smoke" is steam and heat from the building's heating system reacting with the cold air (not 100% sure though). I can assume everyone that it is NOT on fire and is like this all through the winter.

This has to be one of Toronto's more interesting heritage buildings. Quite like the one in New York city on Times square, though that one went through a very clever rebuild to use the original frame and space. With luck Toronto will get to keep the flat iron. The area is sure spiffed up since I last went bye it.

really a lovely shot.. mesmerizing colrs of thata building n ya, the structure rocks !!

Sam, that's just stunning. There's no other word for it. We're waiting for our new home to be built in that neighbourhood; this picture makes me feel homesick for a place we've not even lived in yet!

Please, please, *please* make a desktop version out of this one. It might actually be my favourite ddoi picture ever.

Incredible!

That's true, it's looks like a 3D rendering using radiosity...it's very strange...this architecture is very interesting.

Also one of my favourites. But you seldom disappoint.

Amazing, superbly shot Sam.

This is great. This is way I voted for you!

Incredible, one can find thousands of photos of the flatiron but this one has such an original perspective, I love it.

I love this shot, it's so clean and crisp.

Wonderful picture. I request for a wallpaper please.

Great shot, looks like a painting. :)

No offense, it's a pretty standard shot to me and I'm curious as to why so many people find it so incredible.

Great cartoonish quality... the background and left side look like they are in black-and-white. Great composition and sense of geometry.

Here is the other end of this building too:

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_architecture/040914_806.shtml

I like Sam's shots of this building as others have said too, because they are from different angles than usually done. Typically they are shot from straight on the thin edge. That is pretty easy to get too as the street physically splits there to go on either side of the building, providing a nice median to stand on to get that angle and not get hit by a car.

--Pete

Awesome capture of the building. Is the background masked?

history. great.

Ive always liked photography, but I never really thought of it as something to do with my life. But after looking at those amazing city shots you got in downtown Toranto, you inspired me to start a career in it. I hope some day I can be up to your standards.

wow. absolutely perfect composition and saturation... wow.

What wonderful light!!! The glassiness of the windows and the saturation of the red brick is all truly great. Nice photograph.

Nice - how come there is no traffic? When ever I try this shot the junction is so busy!

We have a flatiron here in Belfast (Northern Ireland). There is a very small bar inside, and coinsidently enough I went in it today with a friend for the first time! Great shot!

A lot of pictures have been taken of the flatiron --definitely takes some balls to try and take your own! Amazing amazing shot, Sam. You really did capture it differently than I've ever seen it. Wallpaper?

Woah -- I pass by this building and area all the time, but this is a surreal photo of it all. It looks like it's CGI. Amazing!

Wow, amazing. Would love to set this as my desktop. Any chance of a larger one.

Very Professional, the impression on the building brings it to life

This is surreal 'cuz it's been photoshopped. but it is more interesting than the Nathan Philip Square one.

holy cow sam, thats what i'm talking about! way to go man. there's so much to be said about this picture, and most of it has been said above. you know this is one of your best!

Woah, what a architecture mix, that`s great!

In this day and age of what I perceive as unimaginative architecture, it's great to see well-kept buildings of old that actually *look* like they've been built by people.

I look at your blog every single day and this is my favorite shot ever. I love the way the CN Tower is kind of snuck in the back corner. I am getting a D-rebel soon and I can't wait. Too bad we don't have more interesting things to take pics of here in Oklahoma! I'll be moving to Toronto in late summer with my boyrfriend and I can't wait to be able to take some pics of something interesting. Thanks for the inspiration!!

some of the buildings look 2 dimentional and the others look 3-d. looks like you superimposed two pictures. very cool.

Wow! There's something surreal about this shot. Amazing!

Manuel

PS: also using the opportunity to say Hi from my San Francisco Photo Blog!

What a neat looking building! Thanks for sharing.

Makes me think of Sim City 7 or something... You're incredible. :)

What a wicked building. The composition highlights its dramatic shape nicely. Great shot.

...so where is bruce wayne?...this seems like a very beautiful shot ferom a modern batman movie,very nice composition,epic feeling,and sad mood...
very nice Sam ...keep going for the best work...