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shades of high park
Originally uploaded by 416style

Lately I’ve been spending a fair bit of time along the banks of Grenadier Pond in High Park taking video and snapping photos. Sunset by the pond is stunning. Milky mauve shades stretch across the water and dim as yellow leaves gather at the glowing shore. This latest favourite still photo I’ve captured reveals a fishing platform jutting out over the pond, a little slice of paradise among the giant trees that burst with autumn colour.

centre frame
Originally uploaded by 416style

I’ve been a bit of a flickrite for awhile and been asked by poeple around the world whether my photos can be used in print and online. It’s been exciting. Despite seeing my photo printed in Travel Girl, hearing Marketing Magazine used a shot (without asking I might add) and getting a Green Roof shot into Bruce Mau’s Massive Change exhibit in Chicago, my highlight is having my shot of the Revue hanging in the Intercontinental Hotel’s Signatures Restaurant (220 Bloor Street West).

The resto recently renovated and rebranded. Now it’s filled with a stunning array of images from all our favourite spots in Toronto. I went there with my aunt recently to have a bite, and although it was a quiet Monday night the experience was fantastic. Of course the service was terrific (being that it was so quiet) and I enjoyed our server’s sense of humour (no stiffness here), but it was the food and the little extras that kept popping up on our table that made the night. All the food was native to Ontario, which to me is a another huge plus. I ate the Manitoulin Island trout with soba noodles and broth - delicious - while enjoying a dark red glass of wine and looking out over Proof’s beautiful patio next door. It’s what summer in the city is all about.

Friday night’s Brassaii party kicked off the Contact Photography Festival exhibiting across Toronto until May 31st. Photographers Alex vs Alex set up a photo booth to get stills of the crowd as they entered, setting a bit of a red carpet vibe. Meanwhile Toronto’s most loved photobloggers were in full swing getting their snaps of the jumping crowd inside while others milled though large prints of Toronto strewn across Brassaii’s glossy white walls. CBC’s report on Contact finds fellow blogTO writer Jerrold Litwinenko inside before the show.

1. breath from another, 2. follow me, 3. chachi’s sunday bath, 4. untitled, 5. listen carefully, 6. deep space - cielo nyc, 7. good morning america, 8. cityscape,

9. hark the herald, 10. idle, 11. parliament hall, 12. CMC, 13. swing sookie, 14. humber bay, 15. reids killer whale, 16. kabuki theatre,

17. pop, 18. giraffe head, 19. colourful toronto, 20. sky at city hall, 21. osaka neon, 22. bongo drummers, 23. toronto island airport ferry

As much as I love Toronto’s shiny side I also love it for its dark corners too. I scoured my flickr photography group fourONEsixSTYLE looking for stills to share with you. This one, as the last skyline shot taken from high above the clouds on a passenger plane, shows an angle of this city I’ve never seen before and reveals a futuristic looking city. Toronto, the Gotham City of the Future? Maybe not, we’re still a clean, green city for the most part, but when that ubiquitous fog rolls in does make me think there might be a little madness stirring under the fog’s heavy veil.

This photo is hands-down the most gorgeous photograph of Toronto I have ever seen, flickr buffs call it cloudporn. Local blog Torontoist (note lack of link) credits their reader Gareth for submitting it, but unfortunately they don’t offer a link to his site(s), as most blogs would do. So I’m left searching the back pages of flickr on my own just to find more of these delicious shots. I’ll share them with you here at fourONEsixSTYLE as I do.

When I started this blog over a year ago I was given a handful of templates to choose from created by Blogger, and because it was a Sunday afternoon whim I chose this one.

However, the site has evolved and it may be time for the branding to evolve too. I appreciate all you loyal blog readers stopping by fourONEsixSTYLE and think you deserve a bit more eye-candy. Problem is Blogger doesn’t let you change the template unless you’re willing to part with all your content - and I’m not. I do have some solutions up my sleeve so stay tuned and tell me what you think of the simple design I whipped together for you.

Four corners streetcar
Originally uploaded by 416style.

In a vain search to see where 416style’s recent TTC strike piece ended up in Google’s search priority list I came across this streetcar pic I’d posted on flickr now heading up Spacing wire’s story of the same subject. I was so pleased. Spacing is a fantastic Toronto-based publication (web + print) that features stories and photographs about public spaces and urban planning. Seems Torontonians care a ton about how our public spaces are used and abused. Want to find out more? Check out Spacing for yourself. You’ll get insight into things such as what a Toronto Flaneur is and does, and how many colours and shapes make up the Toronto subway system.