Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Nature => Topic started by: Shortsighted on February 21, 2024, 05:32:42 PM
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Charline had a clever idea. I wish I knew what that was like. I’m not so obtuse though as to squander a good idea when I actually identify one, but instead savvy enough to elaborate upon it. She imagined curating a portfolio of B&W photographs of Ontario provincial parks and then compounded this brilliant idea with an additional notion that she could present it on this forum as a version of contest without a winning prize. Even her creativity has it limits.
I thought that I would honour that idea with a rather lame version of the same concept using B&W photos of local urban parks to see if my photos could allow identification of the parks, or hot spots. This may not work, which firmly places me in familiar territory but I’ll give it a try, two photos at a time.
#1
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-mLMKn9f/0/FF5HFsXvn3DcR8JGx9sdj2SBt8cRNpsmrQcKLPr2r/L/Brickworks%20B%26W-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-mLMKn9f/A)
#2
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-pcfQR6C/0/FVXZ9hSz4x939TVSzPmK2f92GTKNb3wfXW3v83swQ/L/Rattray%20Marsh-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-pcfQR6C/A)
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Great pics. Second one is Cranberry Marsh?? Have not been there for a few years. Opposite end of the known universe!!!!! It the ruddy traffic that partly hinders adventuring out that way!!!!
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That's a negatory good buddy. #2 is not Cranberry Marsh but I do agree that the traffic everywhere is one of a list of deterrents to visiting these sites more often, even without taking into consideration the carbon footprint. Remember when they said "leave nothing but footprints" as the responsible way to explore? Now we need to consider even those footprints, if they are carbon-based.
Hint: #1 is fed by a very well-known water course that has been in the news over the years vis-a-vis pollution, contaminated soil, housing projects and it sits on what was once an essential industry for a growing Toronto. Awe-shucks, I gave it away.
Hint: #2 is probably more out your way and if it wasn't for that fact I would visit it more often. Did someone mentioned traffic?
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First one looks like Evergreen Brickworks.
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#2 reminds me of Rattray Marsh but I haven't been there for a long time. :-\
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Doctor, doctor, read all about it, you got a bad case of knowing your stuff. Yes indeed, the pond/wetland was taken near the Evergreen Brickworks. As for image #2, it looks a lot like Rattray marsh because it is Rattray marsh. Is it too far away from you that you haven't visited the park in years? Are you just not into seeing rats in a tray. See, these are a lot easier than Provincial Parks.
Please find two more below:
#3
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-HRTGfFr/0/DbVKZXNT77RVCQcrC8CtjcVLqkBK3jgGSsFgP66v8/L/Pool%2C5%20copy%2CB%26W-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-HRTGfFr/A)
#4
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-MvqfsB3/0/Dzm3dbkj2Pg93fC3NJmdQPHV487qXKpNmXGLRPL3w/L/Bluffers%20Park-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-MvqfsB3/A)
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Shortsighted ... I used to live a lot closer to Rattray Marsh. Now I walk to Kariya Park and Riverwood, occasionally Zonta Park.
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#3: Grenadier Pond - High Park, Toronto.
#4: Scarborough Bluffs - Bluffer's Park.
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Grenadier Pond is not the location. The featured site is much farther east. Bluffer's Park is, of course, absolutely correct. Like no other. I'll add a couple more later because right now I'm making dinner and therefore don't have the time to look for something.
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right now I'm making dinner.
What are you making?
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Making a rich General Tao stir fry while listening to Rich Terfry on CBC: Smoked tofu, red onions, Shitake mushrooms, snow peas, broccoli, roasted eggplant, hot peppers, red peppers, bamboo shoots, yams. Usually I'll make Basmati rice too but I started too late for that. I don't eat meat anymore. Also cut out dairy.
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stir fry
Now I'm hungry!
Still trying to figure out #3, wondering how much further East this park is
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Considerably farther east than Bluffer's Park, although there are still small bluffs still further east than the featured site. As you can see on the photo there is a beach and there is a wetland behind the camera.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7knx7Rn/0/CpnQdRwztWGbsVf2SmdwNQpnR47KwfmrmHPT39xh5/L/Mouth%20of%20Rouge-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7knx7Rn/A)
Looking in the other direction of #3
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Egret flied over Rouge Beach wetland? Good catch!
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Site:5
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-CxmjX95/0/zg2McwLjxg568mwLjVVJZ9Sk4QSRScBq3JTRZp9p/L/Hanlan%27s%20greens%2CLR%20-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-CxmjX95/A)
Site#6
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-JFdTSzK/0/CzRXw7N8Hf7k9ZhNsJrCVLjSc3kJv5jpqkjtS4KZd/L/Hanlan%27s%20Greens%2CLR%2Ccopy-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-JFdTSzK/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-NHGZmQ2/0/FB8ZGsxG9NRJ338jjc8DtQjZpTBtLhkPjdKrZRdBH/L/Humber%20Bay%2C%20East-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-NHGZmQ2/A)
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#5: High Park - Toronto. Are these the cherry blossoms?
#6: Humber Bay - Etobicoke.
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For some reason the B&W photographs don't appear but from what I can recall #6 is correct - Humber Bay Park looking NE. The other photograph does not depict High Park. The bare truth is that this park is not very high at all. Oops, I just spilled a little of my piping hot coffee, so at this point I might as well put it down and stop han(d)lin the keyboard.
#7
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Dd75jr5/0/FWG6rdJdmWkrCqSVNFLwkkB4r89TfRNNgvkFbmtRr/L/Tommy%20thompson-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Dd75jr5/A)
#8
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-HdTfnQZ/0/CG4kZ4W4LCdWrTQd7kbFtrtVrPXJxBvXWhknmP9dr/L/Source%20creek%20to%20Grenadier%20pond%2CLR%20-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-HdTfnQZ/A)
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I've never been to Rattray unfortunately.
#7 is Tommy Thompson Park.
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Yes, Dr. John ... #7 is indeed Tommy Thompson Park ... looking NxNE.
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Shortsighted... all the clues earlier were for Hanlan's Point? Photo #5
#8: going to try HIgh Park again! Photo reminds me of North Grenadier Pond/Wendigo Pond. ;D
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I've never been to Rattray unfortunately
It's a beautiful park to visit, have seen lots of birds and wildlife there - deer, muskrats, raccoons, snapping turtles.. Very relaxing with wooden boardwalks through the woods and by Lake Ontario. :)
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My arm is killing me from pulling the bell-chord so energetically. You are absolutely right. Hanlan's Greens on the north-to-middle stretch of the island is actually quite lush in colour. #8 is as you suspected ... Wendigo pond and the source flow to Grenadier pond. I really didn't expect anyone to get that one, so I may need to make them harder.
#9
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-2q5Mq4g/0/C5HfhJMsZXSDRN3C7sTFgv5Qs8jNKKnz2RnwdBdws/L/Colonel%20Danforth-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-2q5Mq4g/A)
#10
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-B4MPZZM/0/M2XWx4VWfJJqJc2Dd77q2wmZ8MfCKh8qQ3KRvLP8/L/Cranberry%20Marsh%20from%20beach%2CLR%20copy-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-B4MPZZM/A)
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#9: this is a tough one, lots of parks with bridges!
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What's a park without a bridge. Parks should have trails that fork, detours that circumvent a moral dilemma, lots of vivacious sigmoid curves that beckon the intrepid, and most important of all ... at least one bridge. Some bridges are wooden, some are steel, while the most charming are stone. Some bridges are flat and some are curved, while the most thrilling sway as you walk on them. If our parks didn't have bridges I would need to find some place else to life. This bridge is steel and rings when you ride over it with a bicycle. I think of it as the ringing, singing bridge and it marks the near end point of my southward journey through this park before it reaches the lakefront and yet another steel bridge. This bridge is cute because the span is short, just enough to span a slow-moving drainage ditch. I find that Eastern phoebe often build a nest under it and they do so without a posted permit. I saw a Black-billed cuckoo sitting on the opposite side to where the camera took this photo. The drainage ditch flows into a creek, which then flows into L. Ontario. It is in the east-end.
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What's a park without a bridge.
Best one I've ever visited back in August 1986 North Vancouver, BC: Capilano Canyon Suspension Bridge! 8)
Many different types of wonderful bridges (that you've described in your above posting) here at parks in Ontario. ;D
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#11
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-FjfTnmk/0/DVST6VvPqBVSj8tZ8V6FBSrGjCdn73LmCL2m44LFG/L/Ashbridges%20spit%2C2-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-FjfTnmk/A)
#12
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-QwRn9bv/0/CJnFjfCF9C7q2RNqVsnQPHRBm4zK5TfdKqmtBscXQ/L/Ashbridges%20Spit-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-QwRn9bv/A)
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Was i#12 the Bluffers? What a dramatic shot!
I guess the meadow shot was from Downsview, wasn't it?
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No, it is not Bluffer's Park, but there is a trick to #11 and #12. The meadow shot? I'll show you a meadow shot, young lady! Actually, Charline, the 'meadow shot' has already been correctly identified by the Doc as Tommy Thompson Park.
#13 Meadow Shot! I originally took the shot because of colour, the colour created by the sea of dogwood stems that are red in an otherwise yellow tinged meadow ... out east. Additional hints are available online for $1.99 each. Get them while they last.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7qfhR8x/0/n3NTLXnBpG9HwwMTh9zjLvSxdn5HS9j6ZPfcv4WG/L/Lynde%20Shores%20Meadow-L.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7qfhR8x/A)
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The old lady is going to Arrowhead again!
I like the textured effect of the meadows. I can now recognize the Tommy Park location.
I saw big waves in the Buffers. But since you are living near the shoreline, you could shoot from the waterfront trail.
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The waterfront trail is common to many parks. This one is on a spit and it's not Bluffer's. It used to be one of my go-to parks before my 'go' fell off my 'to' and left me remote from my 'used to' days. That statement is stupid enough for a song lyric. I need a melody maker!