Now, the horror of the crushed bicycle will forever haunt the owner -- if he were to find out about this photo ;)

Like the bottom:0 right:0 one, cause here you see that this was really an accident. It has more "action".

Hah, well documented Sam. Atleast the bicycle owner took it good spirits it seems. I really like the bottom right shot, works well.

Life is full of surprises, and not all of them are good. On the up side, no one was hurt, it looks as if the power, phone, cable lines were spared, and it doesn't even appear to be blocking up traffic.

Too bad about the poor guy's bicycle. I wonder if the city will pay for the repairs to it?

Nice catch.

Oh - I used to work at 260 King St E, which is right there, isn't it. Wow.

I once had my car totalled in that car parking lot during a snow storm. It was parked. The taxi who hit his brakes on King st in the snow wasn't, unfortunately.

Thanks for sharing!

It's good to have the cop there, eh? You never know what else that tree might try to pull.

Single photo maybe a little bit boring,
Set of fallen tree photos became art of happening.

If the biker's lucky he may have good insurance that will cover part of his loss.

Looks like no windows were broken.

Reminds me of about 10 years ago an Ottawa Photographer's neighbour came home with a new car and that night a tree in his yard fell on it and totally destroyed it. Some folk have BAAAD karma.

The large vertical makes me wish I had a 3 foot tall screen so it could be viewed all at once. Of course, there's no resolution where the browser will show all of it. Annoying.

Good photojournalism. Distracting. Get back to art, Sam. Of course - when it's under your nose.

Ouch!

Impressive shots. You just don't realize how massive a tree is until it comes down and crushes something. We had four land on our home during a hurricane and another eight around the perimeter of the yard. It took the house a year before it all settled back into place after having the weight of the trees on the house for just two days.

Great angles

Good journalism, and I like the collage layout of the photos. With regard to the middle photo, I was feeling that it was a bit on the long side to start with, but you know I actually quite like it - scrolling up and down on that photo feels like looking up and down as you would need to do to take in the full scene if you were there in person.

what a pity :D

I like the top shot the best -- a cop guarding a crushed bike and fallen tree as seriously as a crime scene is priceless! But I agree with Harlequinpan that the set turns your photos into an great story.

poor guy! I thought I'm lucky!

totally ironic. i love it. the guys face is priceless. he deserves a new one. i like how you captured the guy taking horizontal shots of the tree.

Terrific shots!

Impressive photo report. Lucky, no one got hurt! I had already nominated you, I am sure that you will win in some category. Keep up the good work Sam

Poor guy... Glad no one was hurt.

Nice documentation of the scene. If he needs pictures for insurance purposes, he's more than covered. =o]

I think there was lots of warning, judging by the fact that it fell and the condition of the wood,it's been dead some time. If someone had acted a year ago when they noticed it had no leaves, it would not have fallen today :)

Great pics, always love them.

Nice documentation.

A good name for this series: If a tree falls in a city..

Roots must've rotted... lucky no-one was hurt! Even the bike seems to have escaped serious structural damage. Hey, where's the white chalk-outline around the tree's dead body :)

this place looks the area around where I used to work a few years ago... aren’t organic’s offices right there?

Fantastic series - really fun to get the whole story in these fotos - great photojournalism.

you may be amused to know that the word "ki" as seen in the top photo, means "tree" in japanese.

:)

cool site

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