Shek's Aperture: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Day 2

Thursday 21 June 2007

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Day 2 - The People

A city is only as beautiful as the people living in it. Here are some people of Ottawa, giving this beautiful city some motion, life and colour. The simple attitude of the people make Ottawa a really chilled out place. Very laid back.

Here is a song to go with the pictures. Kinda heavy, so mind those ear drums...

Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

The Texas Ranger

Chic (as in fashionable to the uninitiated)

Banana Man

Iron Maiden

kids

Afternoon Bake (picture taken from 18th floor of the Westin Hotel)

Street Performer

Laptop Girl in her own world

Elijah wood look-alike dude in his own world

3 comments:

Ash said...: Some totally interesting people there....well-captured.

The Elijah Wood lookalike is so cute!; 21 June 2007 at 11:12
Anonymous said...: The last picture is great - I love seeing captures of people, deep in thought.; 22 June 2007 at 18:24
Abhishek said...: @ash, @squidder
all these pictures were taken in the middle of a busy wednesday afternoon. I was intrigued to see people in such states of consciousness. My favs are the laptop girl and Ironmaiden.; 22 June 2007 at 18:37

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Portraiture

I see so much beauty around me. Everyday people doing everyday things are all beautiful. When I visit a new city or plainly go around my own, it is the people in their natural self who carry the character of the city with them that attract my attention. Everyone takes pictures of that quaint building or that historic monument. They are the lifeless parts of a city that give a city only structure and form. People give life to a city. With my label: Portraiture, I attempt to capture this very beauty in its nascent form, sometimes unawares of the prying lens.