and amidst all those engineering codes, there's love.

This is such a picture. All those codes and signs with different colours, and all of a sudden that heart in the middle or should I say at the heart of that intersection.
Sam, this picture is absolutely great. All the elements and everything. I should say your eyes are catching things that nobody else can. Just imagine how many poeple have passed that heart and never noticed it.
I bet it is still there and they can't see it.

really cool it looks like some demonic cult has taken up residence here!

Great image. Looks like you will have major construction in the short future ;-)

somehow like on a children's playground..amazing, i like it very much
cheers from switzerland
joe

That big red heart in the middle of it all definitely looks like some sort of engineering symbol... =D

the heart! amazing shot, (baba to dige ki hasti!!!!) take care

looks like a toy set.. took me a while to find the heart although it's right in the middle :) And I have recently encountered lots of those colourful symbols here in Warsaw streets too.. maybe that's some sort of world-wide conspiracy in the making? ;)

those 2 white umbrellas are cool too

Great POV. It's almost as if a kid went crazy with crayons. Instead of covering his kitchen wall, he went out in the street.

i've never seen so many of these marks in one place before. and the road system here in orlando always has constuction codes on it.

Looks like the engineers have been out in force. I would expect this is preparation for aerial photo mapping.

Fun shot and record of how it looks!

Such a crazy image... as always, I love it.

Yeah! another Bay and Edward, I love it. Bravo.

What marvelous shot!Is it "The Sam Code"?
The taxi always at the right place!Why you are so lucky?

I love how there is a heart painted right on the suicide strip between the streetcar tracks.

cool shot... which only means one thing.... jackhammers are imminent.

it seems taht all the cars are coming to crush the heart that has stood up in the centre of the world :)

The patterns are brilliant! It is also a remarkable photo with all the urban activity in it - great capture sam! Also, the heart in the middle is a perfect final touch.

This is a very cool shot... Love the colours. Looks like the corner is going to get seriuosly ugly soon though.. yikes.

I agree with Susies conspiracy theory. The whole intersection in front of our house has been marked colorfully where all the water-, electricity-, sewage- and long-distance heating-lines run along last Friday. But no chance for such a great overview of it like you have :) I guess we should watch out for power-outage and forage some water and candles ;)

greetings from rainy Germany!

....or some children were playing some kind of wild and dangerous game of hopscotch! And that must be the heart of downtown T.O. ;-)

Very fun observation, Sam! Thanks!

See if you can get another shot after the crew comes and demolishes the intersection to get to the heart of the code.

The two ladies with the umbrellas remind me of being in Tokyo at one of their crazy intersections. Often there would be a hundred or so people crossing all at once over their intertwined zebra crossings, many of them stylish Japanese women, all with their perfectly colour-coordinated umbrellas. I love the neutral tones you captured in this photo ... makes the bright chalk colours and the taxi stand out even more.

Very nice shot Sam!

Looks like big bird was walking in the area :)
As usual, amazing pic

And there's a heart, too. Love this aerial shot!

Very cool image. Graphical, picturesque shot.Nice.

the heart is what stood out for me - placed just off-centre - lovely!

Cool!

We are all wandering about in different directions quite aimlessly, Trying to find the meaning we've lost in a forgotten time. We are living in an era profused with irrelevant signs and symbols that are there just to distract us from the simple answer we need in this vague and obscure universe.

That is quite a sight from up there. Looks like there will be some traffic tie ups coming there soon.

Wonderful! Great image, well seen and beautifully titled. Well done Sam, and thanks for doing it.

This is a very clever shot. I love the heart! It made me chuckle.

Do these symbols foretell a traffic nightmare in the near future?

Great view and interesting subject. Marks look as if enormous birds had been trampling along the pavement or a graffiti convention had occurred.

looks like a lot of orange lines with wings flying across on the cement! AHHHH ITS AN INVASION.
that is insane, how many pipes and electric things are under that cement? ive never seen so many electric symbol things.
and a radom heart drawn on the center of the intersection haha.
this is really cool, the perspective this is taken is very nice, reminds me of movies. especially those white umbrella holders at the top.

the colors look so happy
(:
great shot

what a great picture!!!! wow!!!! You find visual poetry in a comun place. You have a fan from México

I have to ask... was that heart there before the engineers showed up? A very neat look at what will apparently soon be a messy intersection.

most of the time I love your high contrast treatment you give your images, this is one of those times.

Nice spot. The heart is a great touch. Well taken.

Yep -- it's a demonic code, alright. Just in time for 6-6-06 :-)

Hey, and thanks again for all the great pix of Toronto. I'll hope to visit there in August and October this year. My first visits to Canada, inspired in part by your blog.

I predict you will soon take a photo of the Bay and Edward intersection with construction workers digging the ground!.... I always had this gift of telling the future!...

Pretty cool. The cars look like matchbox cars :-)

wonderful angle,well done.

Thanks Sam for all the great shots! This one makes me think of that old game "Jacks" (or some such), and I'm just waiting for the hand to come in and clear away all the jacks and detritus in its wake.

wonderful photo, Sam....I love how you manage to make the simple things in life pop vibrantly in your photos. I'm a very long time viewer, first time poster. I don't know how it works...but can we get this one blown up to a lovely wallpaper size =]? keep up the awesome work,
~Brendan

This is a great capture. The colors and lines are both so interesting. I really like this!

This looks like Cingular footprints all over the place.