Well, our luck is really holding; we had another gorgeous spring afternoon on Monday, April 26. And this time, the Toronto Shooters Club gang took advantage of the excellent weather to explore Yorkville. This famous Toronto neighbourhood was full of inspiration, featuring subjects including urban landscape scenes, architecture, sculpture, people and even pets.

The group, consisting of Patricia, Ivan, Roman and I, eventually gathered at about 6pm near Yorkville and Hazelton Avenue. I had to take my boys to the doctor first (luckily the office is in Yorkville) so I was delayed in joining the group at the original meeting place, the parkette at the corner of Bellair and Cumberland. Once I joined them, I discovered the group was well engaged in exploring the several sculptures adorning the wide sidewalks along Hazelton.

We meandered along Hazelton until we reached the end of the commercial area. Backtracking, we then stolled along Scollard Street and enjoyed several more opportunities to shoot architecture, sculpture and urban landscapes. Once we hit Bay Street, we turned north and entered a grassy parkette on the west side. It was here we encountered an French bull dog – quite a character – out for an evening walk. Several of us enjoyed getting shots of this charming and very obliging subject. Once that episode had come to a close, we were getting hungry and split up.

Meanwhile, I had come up with the extended plan to try to catch the sunset from the section of Bloor Street between Castle Frank station and Parliament Street that overlooks the Rosedale Valley. Roman had decided to join me, so we grabbed a quick pizza slice and then hopped on the subway for a quick ride over to Castle Frank. We made it in time and I set up my tripod facing west up the valley as you can see from the HDR I made from the view. Hope you like it!