Author name: Glenn Specht

Serendipity or sometimes you just get lucky

I have been shooting a lot with a lensbaby.  The effects I can get are great, when you take the time to set it up, get your focus perfect…take test shots.

That is not how I have been using it.  I set up a prefocus point and press the stutter when something interesting might be in my range.  Added to the “spray and pray” part of this style of photography, is that I have been shooting out the window of moving street cars for a lot of my images.

(This is the basis of the series I am working on My Toronto. )

This style of photography reminds me of the days of film… never knowing what you have until you take it home and look at it.  It also brings a lot of luck into the capture of images… the wow factor when you look at them.

I am not sure what caught my eye to press the shutter on this image… but the result was not what I was expecting.

I went out yesterday to photograph “THE FENCE”… the security fencing they put around parts of Downtown Toronto for the G20 Summit.

I will leave my political views about if this should be happening to another time and place, but the security they have put together for this event is staggering.

As I was walking along King Street, past the Scotia Tower, the other photographer I was with and I started taking images of the building.

A security guard came running out to us shouting “It is illegal to take picture here“

I usually deal with security guys in a calm manner… by explaining that what they are telling me is bullshit, and then slowly move along.