{"id":269,"date":"2014-02-12T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/montreal-revisited\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:28:54","slug":"montreal-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/montreal-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why go back and revisit photos that are getting close to four years old now, I have plenty of new good content to share. However there is something to be said for taking a look back at your photographic journey, and to see where, everything changed. For me, that change really took place here, in Montreal Quebec during my vacation there in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5166034199\/\" title=\"Alley by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1318\/5166034199_8a6671757a_b.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Alley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5166035033\/\" title=\"narrow streets by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4062\/5166035033_d0bcaaca5e_b.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"narrow streets\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5157941152\/\" title=\"Spectacular by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4104\/5157941152_4281d652d6_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Spectacular\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think my muse finally woke up in Montreal, especially in old Montreal. And film started to come back to me in a big way. But not just medium, but stylistically I finally got what I was looking for in my photography. I wasn&#8217;t just taking snapshots with big cameras, I was thinking, composing, and building an image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5166632730\/\" title=\"Notre Dame Light by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4005\/5166632730_0ef83199c2_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Notre Dame Light\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5166039339\/\" title=\"Window Detail by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4144\/5166039339_279a2ef774_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" alt=\"Window Detail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5161155950\/\" title=\"Untitled by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1107\/5161155950_a7653a04e0_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was clear definition. Lines, perspective, detail. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5148425678\/\" title=\"Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4001\/5148425678_0e9923976a_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5148428840\/\" title=\"What time is it Mr. Wolf? by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4006\/5148428840_223e38c898_b.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"What time is it Mr. Wolf?\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5157365905\/\" title=\"Abandoned by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4103\/5157365905_6e46f4f765_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Abandoned\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So why Montreal? I don&#8217;t know, maybe because I just felt comfortable in the city, more so than any other big city I had visited to date. Or maybe something just clicked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5161171328\/\" title=\"Chapel by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4049\/5161171328_769937a3d9_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Chapel\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5147830551\/\" title=\"Christ Church Cathedral by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4152\/5147830551_7b81007589_b.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Christ Church Cathedral\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/5161173716\/\" title=\"Old Doors by .:Axle:., on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4046\/5161173716_f6199f7ffb_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Old Doors\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also seemed to develop an obsession with photographing doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why go back and revisit photos that are getting close to four years old now, I have plenty of new good content to share. However there is something to be said for taking a look back at your photographic journey, and to see where, everything changed. For me, that change really took place here, in Montreal Quebec during my vacation there in 2010. I think my muse finally woke up in Montreal, especially in old Montreal. And film started to come back to me in a big way. But not just medium, but stylistically I finally got what I was looking for in my<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/montreal-revisited\/\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[22,158,27,88,545,600,26,794,546,602,31,157,793],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}