The Tenin Technique

Happy Anniversary to Eric Tenin at Paris Daily Photo! Eric is the spiritual father of all the City Daily Photo blogs. Without him, there'd be no CDP and without them, I wouldn't be here either. Bravo!

In honour of this anniversary, many of us are trying out what has come to be known as the Tenin technique. He places the camera very low - on the floor, even, and takes a photo from that perspective.

The photo today was taken a few steps away from Tuesday's photo. The sidewalks are made of large slabs of slate. They're very flat, and for all I know they're two hundred years old. The concrete sidewalks never last this long! If you look carefully, you can see Lawrence the Indian.

To see all of the photos honouring Eric's wonderful and enviable record (never missed a day in 5 years!) Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Sidewalk by the Mohawk

Also in the Stockade area is Riverside Park. In one of those accidents where names make sense, it's right by the river! Being close to the river means that ice from the river gets pushed up onto the sidewalk. The dog and I had fun negotiating this!

Maker's mark

Through a light dusting of snow, the imprint of the people who made my sidewalk many, many years ago. They ought to be proud at how well it held up. Researching the name gave me a 1947 advertisement in the local newspaper:

Cement Work

Attention, Home Owners

VISCO AND SONS

Are now equipped to take care land-

scaping, sidewalks, curbs, driveways,

garage and cellar bottoms. 1741 Ave-

nue A 3-6190


That last is the telephone number. These days, we dial 7 digits.

January weather

This was what it looked like outside my front door yesterday morning. During the night, we had rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow and when I took this picture it was freezing rain again.

Clearly, no one had the strength to shovel and scrape down to the pavement!