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Friday, April 15th, was my last day in Montreal, and I wanted to make the most of it. I finished my presentation (at the AERA Annual Meeting) by 10:30, and my friend Gayle Curtis and I were going to see what we could see in just a few hours. We decided to take the metro out to the Big "O", and see the Insectarium and the Botanic Gardens, then see how much time we had left (look for some of those pictures later on). Gayle was staying another couple of days, but my flight was early Saturday morning.
Gayle wanted to rest when we got back to our hotels on Rue Sherbrooke (around 5:00 PM), but I wanted to try to get some close up pictures of Habitat '67 before the sun set. I knew more or less where it was, so I set out walking on what would turn out to be about an 18 km round-trip.
I did get down to the Promenade du Vieux-Port and took some nice shots of the Habitat from across the Alexandra Basin, but I still wanted to get closer. As I walked along the promenade, following the bike trail, heading toward the Bonaventure Autoroute, I stopped and asked people (in my exceedingly poor French), "Ou est l'Habitat Soixante-Sept?" Some knew where it was, some didn't. Some spoke English much better than I spoke French, but we all got along, and I kept getting a little closer.
Finally, a bicycle rider from Tunisia asked me "Ou est la Canal Lachine?", and we looked at my map and communicated in broken English and broken French for a while. He convinced me that the Habitat was another 20 km, so I decided to turn away from the river and head west along Rue Peel toward my hotel. As I was walking, I saw some skateboarders ahead, sailing down a ramp and out over Rue Peel. A small crew was filming and photographing them, so I joined in and took several shots (I'll bet you were wondering where this story was going). This picture is one of them.
It has been significantly altered from the original. I'll post a reduced version of the original in a workshop, so you can see the differences. Essentially, I moved the stop sign further away from the skateboarder, dropped the billboard (which reads "Autopsie d'un Meurtre" -- "Autopsy of a Murder") down closer to the freeway to get rid of some of the clutter of signs and posts, then "replaced all the things I had moved with the objects that should have been behind them. I'll give more specific details in the workshop. |
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