( 2024.09.15 )

From the Fairmont

Front Street, Toronto · golden hour from my mother’s window

The week my first year began, my mother came with me to Toronto and stayed at the Fairmont on Front Street. This was the view from her window: the low sun raking gold over the old stone buildings, the evening she dropped me off.

Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS · three frames · Front Street, Toronto

01 / 03

6:41 pm

The View Down

The old stone building catching the last of the gold, the street quiet far below.

Front Street · 6.2mm · ƒ/8 · 1/160 · ISO 80

Looking down from a high hotel window over Front Street, glass towers above and a stone building lit by low golden sun, a quiet intersection below

A long Beaux-Arts stone facade on Front Street lit gold end to end at golden hour, a red streetcar waiting, people at the crosswalks

03 / 03

7:04 pm

Long Shadows

Closer in, the columns burning gold, shadows thrown long across the road.

Front Street · 8.3mm · ƒ/3.2 · 1/800 · ISO 80

Stone columns and arches glowing gold in low sun, long shadows striping the intersection, people crossing and colourful barriers on the street

( about )

I’m Isabella Zhou. Photography lends me wings toward a dreamland I haven’t found yet, and these journals are what I carry back from the flights. This one is a borrowed window and a golden hour, the evening my mother left me to the city, kept on the pocket Canon I carry everywhere.

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