Two Years Later

This funny feeling of being asleep for two years keeps on coming back from time to time, but there has been progress, after all. Now I can use Presto (Greater Toronto's version of the Oyster Card) on all buses and at all subway stations. The new GO Transit cab cars have already become a new norm, and so are the new streetcars around downtown Toronto. The airport train still runs, and now costs significantly less. However, the construction is still neverending at Union Station, and overall, public transportation is still kind of a joke.

I would've liked to buy the pancake lens for my Leica M from Voigtländer, the 2.5/35 Color-Skopar that has been raved about online, especially for its moderate price (I wanted something "cheap", so I can save up for, say, a Summilux, later). But being in Canada, the land of being mostly ignored and super slow delivery, the one store I knew sold them no longer had them in store. I ended up purchasing my first Carl Zeiss lens, the 2.8/35 C Biogon, for about double the price of the Voigtländer. The lens doesn't disappoint, and there are no regrets.

Anyway. The weather all of a sudden turned 180 degrees on Wednesday, and I had to go out and take some pictures of my hometown before moving time zones away, again.

Some of the UP Express trains now run in a 3-car consist


I was on the ferry from Hanlan's Point and got really lucky

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