Foreign Intelligence Brief #352: What Did Shanghai Look Like Twenty Years Ago?

That’s Shanghai (specifically Pudong) in 1990 at the top (the year before Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms) and in 2010 at the bottom, now home to 20 million people. I bet both were taken at noon.

Smoke Break #760: The Cool New Breed of Digital Travelogue…

Mike Matas and his girlfriend travel 1000 miles through Spain and Morocco over two weeks, take thousands of amazing photos and then stitch them in HD on Vimeo.

PS. I want to go to Spain and Morocco.

Get In There With Jackson Zhao, Enterprising Photographer Guy

A friend of a friend is the young photographer Jackson Zhao, who is looking to beef up his portfolio with some high end hotel and restaurant shots. If your place needs a refreshed set of photos at no charge, contact him through his website. I trust he’ll pick and choose, so good luck.

Scout Photos: Later February, We’re So Bummed To See You Go…

It’s that time of the month again, when we unload handfuls of Scout photos from the preceding four weeks. The Olympics made it a fine month, as did the Mixlympic games at George, but there was plenty going on besides, including Chinese New Year, neighbourhood walkabouts, and a date with Monsters. Have a peek… Read more

Scout Photos: Goodbye January We’re So Bummed To See You Go…

Michael Eckford photobombs competing barman Geoff Robinson (who would ultimately win) at the Inniskillin icewine cocktail competition held at The Diamond on January 18th

It’s been a good and interesting month. It began with my friend Nathan, notorious dog gobbler and sous chef at Lumiere, inviting my wife and I to dine at the Relais Gourmand restaurant. Not since a lunch with the CCC folks at West a couple of months ago had I done a fine dining, multi-course affair with paired wines and petit fours or felt compelled to don a jacket while in a restaurant, so this was something of a special occasion. For certain, I’d been on a tear reviewing inexpensive restaurants for the newspaper, and felt like I’d paid enough dues in poutine, ramen, and burgers to warrant a little foray back into the world of refined excess. I don’t mean to say that I had deserved or earned it, but rather that I supped and drank heartily and naturally in good conscience. Read more

Because We’ve All Wanted To Be All-Access Voyeurs In Prague…

This slice of Prague is part of an image unlike any ever assembled: the world’s largest spherical panoramic photo, 192,000 pixels wide by 96,000 pixels high, some 18.4 billion pixels in total, weighing in close enough to 20 GB to make the jaw drop. To put it in analog terms, it would be 16 meters long on actual photographic paper. By clicking here (or on the image above) viewers can zoom in and out and rotate from the city’s television tower height to a voyeuristic maximum.

Scout Photos: Goodbye August, We’re So Bummed To See You Go…

From Scout’s bad to marginally alright cameras comes a variety of shots taken during the month of August… Read more

Scout Photos: ByeBye July, You Were Twice As Awesome As June

From Scout’s bad to marginally alright cameras comes a variety of shots taken during the month of July… Read more

Scout Photos: ByeBye June, You Were Pretty Dang Sweet, Too…

From Scout’s bad to marginally alright cameras comes a variety of shots taken during the month of June… Read more

Scout Photos: Take It Easy May, You Were Pretty Dang Awesome

Here’s a slideshow of snaps pulled from all those that Andrew and I have taken around town over the past 30 days or so… Read more

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