Isabella Zhou

( 2024 – 2025 )

Same Window, Every Sky

Morrison Hall, Toronto · one skyline, autumn into winter

For a year my window at Morrison Hall looked out on this one stretch of Toronto skyline, eleven floors up over the college field. I photographed it whenever the light turned, mostly at dawn, from the first warm weeks of term through to the snow. Same buildings, never the same sky, and I miss it more than I thought I would.

Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS · ten frames · Morrison Hall, Toronto

01 / 10

Sep 9

Rain on the Glass

A grey morning in the first week of term, rain beading on the window, the towers soft behind the water.

Morrison Hall · 6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/400 · ISO 200

The downtown Toronto skyline through a rain-flecked window, above a green sports field and heritage brick buildings

02 / 10

Sep 11

Just After Six

Dawn, the sky still deep blue, one band of pink laid low while the city kept its lights on.

Morrison Hall
6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1s · ISO 80

The skyline at blue dawn, a thin band of pink at the horizon and city lights on

03 / 10

Sep 12

Sun Between Towers

A clear morning, the sun coming up right in the gap between two towers.

Morrison Hall · 6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/125 · ISO 80

The sun rising in the narrow gap between two downtown towers, warm light across the skyline

04 / 10

Sep 16

Violet Dawn

Up early, the sky gone violet and rose behind the downtown silhouette.

Morrison Hall
6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/20 · ISO 80

A violet and rose dawn sky behind the silhouetted downtown skyline
A dark storm-blue evening, downtown towers with lit windows, a floodlit field and a glowing Gothic tower

05 / 10

Sep 18

Storm at Dusk

A storm sitting low, the evening so dark the tower windows and the field lights still burned.

Morrison Hall · 9.7mm · ƒ/3.5 · 1/8 · ISO 250

06 / 10

Sep 25

Last Sun

Last sun on the towers, the sky above going lavender, a few people still out on the green. My favourite evenings up there.

Morrison Hall · 7.2mm · ƒ/3.2 · 1/5 · ISO 80

Evening light turning the tower faces pink and gold under a lavender sky, the green field and Gothic tower below

07 / 10

Oct 4

Fire Under Cloud

The best light I ever caught here: a lid of storm cloud, and under it the low morning sun raking the skyline gold.

Morrison Hall
6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/160 · ISO 200

Low gold morning sunlight raking across the downtown skyline while a lid of slate storm cloud hangs above

08 / 10

Oct 8

Before Sunrise

An October dawn, the towers and their cranes in silhouette against a clean deep blue.

Morrison Hall · 9.7mm · ƒ/3.5 · 1/4 · ISO 80

The downtown skyline and construction cranes in silhouette against a clear deep-blue dawn sky

09 / 10

Oct 14

The Blue Minute

Dawn again, cloud pulled across the blue, a thin warm glow starting between the buildings.

Morrison Hall
9.7mm · ƒ/3.5 · 1/40 · ISO 80

A blue pre-sunrise sky streaked with cloud over the skyline, a faint warm glow low between the towers
Winter sunset light turning the glass towers and clouds pink, snow on the rooftops and bare trees

10 / 10

Jan 20

January, Pink

Back after winter break, snow on the roofs, the low evening sun laying pink across the glass. The one winter I got from this window.

Morrison Hall · 11.6mm · ƒ/4 · 1/40 · ISO 80

( 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 single dorm window, first year, kept on the pocket Canon I carry everywhere.

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© 2026 Isabella Zhou — photographs shot on Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS