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© Billy Wilson 2011

The historic Distillary District of Toronto.


The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.

This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.

Technical Information:
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ?/3.5-5.6 *Shutter Speed: 1/100 Sec. *Aperture Value: ?/4.9 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 29mm (46.4mm Equivalent on 35mm Film)

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This is my local Greggs factory shop, walking through these hallowed doors is like walking through the gates of vahalla with a sumptious eternal feast layed out for you.
I always go for the apple danish, 50p well spent, sometimes if being particulary piggish i may go for the Iced ring donut... fucking nice!!
I also recommend for maximum sickliness the caramel slice, that will make you wretch, but im a hardened cake eater, so i can eat two before feeling like barfing.
I once had to buy a shrimp sandwich for some git called Polly at this very outlet. Polly is noted for his hairstyle, a style referred to as the "Ray", but thats another story.
I couldnt see anything containing water based crustaceans, so i got him a tuna baguette, after all its a water based life form... more like a shrimp than a chicken or a beef.
I took it to him and he told me he doesnt do tuna, so it went to waste... a fussy Polly and 1,000's of starving people in the world, it makes no sense to me.
I also once got a pastie from here, it looked like it contained dog meat, it was foul. Several days later a bloke i work with that goes by the name "the Drink" got one too... he told me he was thinking about it for 2 days, salivating at the very thought!!

True story that.