City of Lights V
One of the most beautiful twilights in recent memory settles over the Toronto skyline in March of 2018. With no boats yet in the water for the season, the harbour is about as calm as it can get. Items of interest: almost perfect reflection, empty harbour. File size: 25947×8188 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe […]
Golden Horseshoe
The skyline glows in the golden hues of fall 2017. Items of interest: low-lying cloud layer, golden hues. File size: 47275×8338 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
June Twilight
The lights of solstice come out in this ultra-high resolution panorama. Over 8000 pixels tall and with less water, this framing gives your composition maximum resolution of the CN Tower, Rogers Center, and downtown core. Items of interest: perfectly clear sky, less water for maximum building resolution. File size: 46608×8406 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: […]
March Twilight 2016
A dead calm settles over the Toronto skyline in this ultra-high resolution panorama. The late sunset/early twilight hues make this a truly exceptional print. Items of interest: almost-perfect reflection, gorgeous sunset hues, intriguing cloud arc. File size: 28122×8468 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Earth Hour 2016
The skyline glows deceptively bright during Earth Hour 2016. Of note is the lack of almost all logos as corporations shut their lights off between 8:30 and 9:30p. Of particular note is the Trump logo still burning brightly, while Scotiabank, CIBC, CBC, Toronto Star, the CN Tower, the Skydome (Rogers Center) and many others have […]
July Twilight
The sky glows in beautiful July hues as the sun sets over the iconic 2015 Toronto skyline. The first of a new series of ultra-high resolution panoramas, this image clocks in at over 160 megapixels. Items of interest: massive 160 megapixel resolution, open dome. File size: 21542×8075 File depth: 16-bit. Colour space: Adobe RGB.
Bollard Lift
The lights come out over the City of Toronto in this dramatic motion time-lapse, transitioning from day to night. Items of interest: perfect transition from day to night. Timelapse length: 26 seconds Original capture: 1 hour, 30 minutes Codec: Apple ProRes 4:4:4 Resolution: Full HD
Toronto Iceline 2015
A gloriously clear January day frames almost-perfect black ice covering the inner harbour, reflecting the Toronto skyline in this high resolution 2015 panorama. Click image to view larger. Items of interest: skyline reflection in almost perfect black ice. File size: 18904×5353 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Cloud Chamber
Aircraft lights compete with star trails over the Toronto skyline at night, as seen from the crumbling eastern gap. Items of interest: crumbling eastern gap, aircraft and star trails File size: 5616×3744 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
February Iceline
The Toronto skyline begins to glow as twilight settles over the record-setting winter of 2014. Almost 30″ thick in some places, the inner harbour has been frozen solid since December. Items of interest: completely frozen inner harbour File size: 13797×4464 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Toronto Earth Hour 2012
The Toronto skyline dims almost imperceptibly during Earth Hour 2012. Compared to a regular night, the obvious changes are an unlit CN Tower and Dome, and a conspicuous lack of corporate logos in the downtown core. Items of interest: Earth Hour 2012 File size: 12981×4393 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
The Longest Night
The crumbling eastern gap frames this dramatic 5 1/2 hour timelapse, as air traffic over the Toronto skyline competes with the stars on a perfectly cloudless night. Items of interest: rare star trails, aircraft trails, boat trails, eastern gap Timelapse length: 1 minute, 10 seconds Original capture: 5 hours, 30 minutes Codec: Apple ProRes 4:4:4 […]
Winter Bones I
Barren winter trees perfectly frame the Toronto skyline during a late-season December twilight. Items of interest: barren tree silhouette File size: 9542×5401 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Golden Hour I
The brightening eastern sky lends lovely pastel hues to this ~90-megapixel panorama of the Toronto skyline, photographed before sunrise in October of 2011. A myriad of sky cranes can be seen along the skyline, steadily moving eastward. The relative openness of the Port Lands as seen here will change dramatically in the next few years. […]
35mm Snowline
The Toronto skyline glows above a snow-covered inner harbour, framed between silhouetted trees. Items of interest: snow-covered inner harbour, tree silhouette framing File size: 17462×3223 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Empty Spaces
Photographed during one of the larger building booms in recent history, over twenty sky cranes are visible in this panorama, each one a new building in progress. Items of interest: almost perfect harbour reflection, over twenty sky cranes on the horizon File size: 16738×3266 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
Almost Glass
Painterly clouds give this high resolution panorama of the Toronto skyline a unique effect, while motion in the inner harbour helps to obscure the city’s reflection, leaving more compositional space. Items of interest: painterly clouds, no harbour reflection File size: 13850×3134 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
IR Skyline
An unusual take on the Toronto skyline in winter, this panorama shows off early morning light in the eerie light of infrared, a spectrum of light invisible to the naked eye. Items of interest: infrared view of the Toronto skyline in winter, broken inner harbour ice, low resolution File size: 4517×1375 File depth: 8-bit grayscale […]
Rorschach Twilight
The Toronto skyline takes on a life of its own in this dramatic panorama. The inner harbour is beginning to freeze, and scattered ice plays with the near-perfect reflection. Clouds roll past overhead lit from the city below, partially obscuring the CN Tower. At over 120 megapixels, this panorama not only shows another side of […]
Earth Hour 2008
A study in contrasts: the skyline goes dark for Earth Hour in 2008. Despite the additional cloud cover in the lower image, the ambient light is comparable across both images, showing just how many people turned out the lights for the event. These panoramas are available together or as single files. Items of interest: before-and-after […]
Solstice Sunset
Twilight settles over the Toronto skyline on summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Photographed during the civic strike of 2009, the inner harbour is completely devoid of the ferry boats that service the Toronto Islands during high season. At well over 100 Megapixels, this panorama can be extensively cropped to fit any project. […]
G20 Twilight
It’s June 25, 2010, and Toronto is on the eve of the 2010 G20 summit. As the city collectively holds its breath, marine security restrictions leave the inner harbour completely empty, unheard of for a Friday evening in the summertime. Clocking in at well over 100 Megapixels, this panorama not only captures a unique moment […]
Overflight
Appearing out of orbital twilight, space shuttle Discovery soars over the Toronto skyline after undocking from the International Space Station on her final orbit ever before being decommissioned and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for permanent display. Items of interest: International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery, frozen inner harbour File size: 4965×3310 File depth: 16-bit […]
1830 to the City
The ferry Ongiara streaks toward the Toronto skyline in this early 2011 long exposure. Items of interest: ferry Ongiara long exposure, frozen inner harbour. File size: 5616×3744 File depth: 16-bit Colour space: Adobe RGB
