Comments: toronto garbage

Thats just sad.

Posted by Gustavs at August 16, 2006 02:10 AM

Damn hippies. :-)

Posted by Sean Galbraith at August 16, 2006 06:29 AM

Nice details and good lighting but it seems a little too crowded to me.

Posted by navin harish at August 16, 2006 07:27 AM

OK... who got you so upset that you shot this outside their restaurant ?

Posted by Chuck at August 16, 2006 07:49 AM

Wow. We're gross in this city. Otherwise it's a good photo. Great range of highlights/shadows and pixel-sharp :)

Posted by sparklite at August 16, 2006 08:12 AM

Too much of Toronto looks like this, but it's interesting to see that people WANT to use the street receptacles, even when they are overflowing.

This shot has it all; the tagger's markings, the staple-studded telephone pole, the peeling Toronto sticker... and is that a bullet hole? The banana peel adds suspense. There's mystery, too. Who bags their garbage before they bin it, and what's inside?

Clever, the way the sign reads "+ more" and the sentence is completed by the garbage.

Good eye, Sam.

Posted by Bill at August 16, 2006 08:16 AM

Does anyone else notice that a fair chunck of this garbage is perfectly recycleable. And this isn't a new thing, recycling has been around for a while now. Why can't people get it into their heads?

Posted by wybenga at August 16, 2006 09:03 AM

Great shot, love the colours and detail.

Posted by Craig Wilson at August 16, 2006 09:07 AM

eww

Posted by mel at August 16, 2006 09:11 AM

Nice shot. The overflowing garbage can reminds me of my house up in college. Its like Jinga, whoever makes the trash tower fall has to take it out.

Posted by Ryan F at August 16, 2006 09:25 AM

This picture reminds me of a velvet painting. Where a unicorn is crying at the sight of a gun. with a thought bubble saying "why"
I'm not saying that's a bad thing. In fact I have the same painting in my living room next to my painting of a crying Indian.

When will everyone stop raping mother earth. Her earthly vagina can only take so much.....


P.s. We had a baby girl! I sent you an e-mail, but I thought you read these more.

Posted by Coop at August 16, 2006 10:05 AM

I love the effort it took someone to place that banana peel there.
Great shot...it tells the story very well.

Posted by tom at August 16, 2006 10:15 AM

Nice colors. Is the bluish of sky natural? I mean is it mad by camera settings or photo editing?

Posted by Bahador at August 16, 2006 10:31 AM

Who says Toronto "looks like an American city without the garbage"?

Posted by adam at August 16, 2006 10:38 AM

I like the dangly banana skin!

Posted by shannan at August 16, 2006 10:49 AM

alchemy (as in "chemistry") n. : the way two individuals relate to each other
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Apparently the restaurant owners have no connection with customers. Perhaps the "+more" is served cafeteria style. You may even find the "soup of the day" in that bin. There are few things less appealing than having garbage in plain view while eating.

Coincidentally, I walked in and right out of a restaurant Sunday because most of the tables had not been cleared after people left. Imagine your photo on every table in the restaurant.

Posted by Kevin at August 16, 2006 10:54 AM

The only redeeming quality with this sad commentary is that at least people tried...Do they place recycle bins around the city or just trash bins?

Recycling is the law here (NJ USA) and it's great that the effort is made...However, if the cities and towns don't place recepticles for the recycleable items then what are people to do? You could say carry them home, but obviously that's not always possible.

The shot is very well done.

Posted by Laurie at August 16, 2006 11:16 AM

You surely have a love affair with your polarizer. Bit overdone to my taste. Just like the garbage.

Posted by Hugh Petrie at August 16, 2006 11:22 AM

Bill: Nice comments. You captured my thoughts/observations. In addition, a *Canada* Dry soda can lies on its side on the ground. Is this symbolic of Canadian people's love of littering and hatred of recycling? Why do you Canadians not care about mother earth like us Americans?

Posted by furt at August 16, 2006 11:33 AM

There you go at making trash look good again.

Posted by Nate at August 16, 2006 11:33 AM

Love the banana peel hanging on for dear life...(!)
i.f.

Posted by i.f. at August 16, 2006 12:32 PM

I thought I saw you there on sunday. looking at this photo and the previous, me and u followed the same route.

Posted by Andrew at August 16, 2006 01:36 PM

i like the fact that it's an actual "daily" shot...a 'look what i saw' type. Why are your skies so dark lately? Just doesn't seem natural.

Posted by CrankPhoto at August 16, 2006 01:53 PM

czy ktoś sprząto w tym Toronto..?

Posted by Zosia at August 16, 2006 02:01 PM

"Who says Toronto "looks like an American city without the garbage"?"

Actually, it looks just like Detroit WITH Toronto's garbage. Why can't you guys bury your own trash, instead of shipping it to Michigan?

Hmmm?


Posted by Dave New at August 16, 2006 04:17 PM

Well, Sam (gulp). Did you eat there?

Posted by Kevin at August 16, 2006 04:30 PM

pure garbage hardcore... someone should take care of this

Posted by Lama at August 16, 2006 07:13 PM

a very normal picture. youve had way better shots. this one is very normal. there is so much in this picture that the focus which is the garbage goes unnoticable

Posted by nick at August 16, 2006 07:14 PM

The return of the 17-40 after months in exile to the 10-22!

How curious that nobody is sitting out on the patio.

Posted by Derek at August 16, 2006 07:34 PM

3 doors south of my workplace! Adrift skateshop loves Daily Dose of Imagery, and approve of this message.

With love, all skateboarders of Toronto.

Posted by Aidan! at August 16, 2006 11:20 PM

lol...your photos are so controversial, they spark soo much debate among your viewers

I love this picture, the lighting is beautiful and the shadows are very well defined. There's so much contrast and colour, it makes the garbage look almost ...pretty. In my photography class my teacher made us do an assignment where we had to find pictures with different lighting [hard light, soft light, side light ect.] I never really appreciated the difference light can make, until I saw this picture. (sorry to sound corny) I think if this picture was taken at a different time of the day, it wouldn't look so great, but I guess that’s what makes you such a great photographer, or any photographer great….to find beauty where others simply see garbage.

Posted by Josephene at August 17, 2006 12:20 AM

Not knowing anything about photography, I can't really judge the picture (though I like it!), but I'm commenting because I walked right past that same garbage can yesterday afternoon, and noticed all the trash carefully piled on top. There were fewer items when I walked by. Anyhow, I enjoy the blog, and it was fun to randomly run across a small part of my day!

Posted by Elizabeth at August 18, 2006 08:09 PM

Good eye - Bien vu !

Posted by JM at August 20, 2006 02:52 AM

I don't know how this sparked a debate about Canadian versus American recycling. I once worked at a ritzy hotel (in Canada) with recycling bins in each of the rooms. I found American guests had no clue what to do with them, even though it clearly said RECYCLE on it. Reading comments from Americans insulting our recycling habits is shocking to me. I seriously thought Americans did not even have a recycling program from the amount of diapers and other gross things I had to pull from the recycling bins. Rant over.

Posted by Elise at August 25, 2006 04:51 PM

Night at the bar.

Posted by Allan Siew at September 30, 2006 12:53 AM

Kensington is bound to have overflowing trash cans because of the incredibly high pedestrian traffic. Appearance aside, it's symptomatic of an area with considerably less negative environmental impact that a spread out residential area with several lanes of constant vehicle traffic.

The soft drinks, weighed with melted ice, upright and proximate, and the sideways pair of coffee cups. For these, I imagine two distinct couples.

That pole with thousands of rusted staples and vestigal fibrous clumps is always a striking sight in high traffic pedestrian areas.

And then Toronto, peeling, faded and tagged.

The banana peel, wedged in and hanging by some sort of eccentric garbage tosser performing societal obligation.

Lovely image.

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