Early morning, Old Port of Montreal, June 2011

Dawn across from the Marché Bonsecours at the Old Port in Montreal, June 2011.

Urban birdhouse, Montreal, June 2011

Birdhouse in the urban landscape, Montreal.

Colonne de Juillet, Place de la Bastille in Paris, July 2002

The July Column on the Place de la Bastille in Paris on a rainy July day. The column, built belatedly between 1833 and 1840 on the orders of King Louis-Philippe I, commemorates liberty gained in the July revolution of 1830, on a site once occupied by the notorious Bastille prison.

A 1808 plan by Napoléon to have an elephant-shaped monument erected on the square never advanced beyond a full-scale plaster model being built. The design had called for access to the top to be enabled by a staircase running up the interior of one of the animal's legs.

Clock tower at Old Port in Montreal, June 2011

The clock tower at the Old Port of Montreal, June 2011, including inside during the climb, and the view both to the West and to the East once at the top, at the end of a 192-step climb.

Completed in 1922, the 45 metre-high tower marked the entrance to the city's port and guided incoming ships, and honoured the memory of lost sailors. It also served to indicate the time in an era when wrist watches where not yet in common use.

Snowdon Theatre facade, Montreal, June 2011

The facade of the Snowdon Theatre in Montreal. Built and opened by United Theatres in 1937, the Streamline Moderne (or late art-deco)-style cinema was designed by Emmanuel Biffa, who also conceived the interior of the Rialto Theatre in Montreal, as well as some 60 cinemas across Canada. After switching to an all x-rated program in 1968, it ran Charlie Chaplin films and nothing else for a full year in 1972. Its life as an active cinema ended in 1982.

Some photos of the interior as it appeared in years past:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/2169297344/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/2169299534/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/1639784685/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dct66/3686174219/

Church in Paris, France, August 1983

A street scene I shot featuring a church in Paris, back in August 1983. I have not been able to trace where exactly this was taken, and what church is shown. Anybody have any ideas?

Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, June 2011, part 2

 

Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, June 2011

Late afternoon at Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal.

The first small chapel on the site on the west slope of Mount Royal was built by Saint André Bessette in 1904, and a larger church was completed in 1917. The dome of the oratory is the third-largest of its kind in the world, and the church, which attracts over 2 million visitors and pilgrims every year, is the largest in Canada.

Brother André credited the miracles attributed to him to Saint Joseph; most of these miracles had to do with healing of various infirmities, and in the basilica is displayed a massive wall covered in crutches belonging to those who came to be healed. Brother André was beatified in 1982, and canonized in 2010.

Palais des Congrès, Montreal, June 2011

Outside and inside the Palais des Congrès in Montreal.

On a back road in eastern Dominican Republic, February 2011

Leading cattle along a dirt road in eastern Dominican Republic.

McGill University campus at night, Montreal, June 2011

 

Nighttime view of the Lorne M. Trottier Building on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, June 2011. Inaugurated in 2004, the building houses the School of Computer Science and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Hotel Gellert and thermal baths, Budapest, Hungary, August 2002

The inside pool and the main lobby at the baths of the historic Hotel Gellert in Budapest, Hungary. Located on the right bank of the river Danube, the Art-Nouveau hotel was built between 1916 and 1918, and the adjoining Gellert Baths spa dates from the same period. The earliest references to local waters' healing capacities date back to the 13th Century, and in the Middle Ages a hospital was located on the site.

The complex is renowned for its Art-Nouveau main hall, seen in the second photo, with its gallery and glass roof.

Old Montreal skyline, June 2011

Sunset view across the Vieux Port to Old Montreal.

Another sunset in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 2010

Sunset along Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine.