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A Walk Through the Upper Beaches down to Glen Stewart Ravine and Glen Manor Drive

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 Toronto real estate agents have this habit of remaning certain neighbourhoods to make them sound more appealing, in this case East Toronto became,  The Upper Beaches.  Prior to being folded into the City of Toronto, over a century ago East Toronto was a thriving village with it's own history and railway hub on the then Grand Trunk Main Line. Echos the old village remain with Main Street being well the main street for the former village. While the Grand Trunk station switched over  to CN, was replaced with a GO Station in the late 1960s, the railway yards off the main line have long been replaced with townhouses.  This was part of my Summer of exploring parts of the city I'm not too familiar with, I started my walk at The Bothy Coffee shop on Gerrard east of Main, then worked my way down Main and then along Kingston Road to the Glen Stewart Ravine.  Camera: Minolta XD, MD Rokkor Lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Kodacolor 100.  ...
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Scarborough Wander Part Two

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 I put my Canon L Series FDn 20-35 F3.5 Zoon to work on this photo walk, a fun lens to work with. I did have some distortion at 20mm but that can be easily fixed in Lightroom. Outside that, it's an amazing wide zoom lens and lightens the load in my camera bag. The only other L Series FDn lens I own is the 100-300 F5.6 Telephoto zoom, thta I really must shoot with more, but I need the right opportunity, maybe up north.  Now wandering around the Golden Mile in Scarborough, I should have left the 100 F2.8 lens at home, I didn't use it. Then again I wasn't out for wildlife, or surveillance photography either. In the end I enjoyed this photo walk it took me out of my usual haunts and forced me to visualize inner suburbia.  Canon New F-1 AE, FDn 50 F1.4 Lens, 20-35 F3.5 L Series Zoom Lens.  Film: Harmon Phoenix 200 Mk 1 (The red box). 
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