Photos from Montreal.

My exploration of post processing continues with these pictures from Montreal. I fooled around with black and white this time around, trying all kinds of stuff. It was October and the days quickly turned dingy. There was a brief moment near the docks when the light was just right through the clouds, but for the most part colour took a back seat to form.

I've been making an effort to take more picture of people. I often get criticized for the lack of a human element in my pictures. It's not always apparent that people live in the places I visit. I'm quite careful when I compose photos and people have a tendency to ruin that by moving and doing what they want. That whole pesky free will thing. This may be why real photographers pay people to stay still for them. Those I did capture though have that journalistic feel. Which is a pretentious way of saying that they're people being people.

I'm pretty happy with the series overall. I have to restructure my galleries so for now I'll orphan the Montreal gallery. I have to change the navigation in the site to make it clear that there are many galleries and that it's moving between them is fairly easy. It's sort of cryptic now. What used to be appealingly minimalist about my site is now just user unfriendly.