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Street photography: the delivery man.

On his knees he could have carried on more box in the grocery store.
On his knees he could have carried on more box in the grocery store.

The deliveryman above avoids unnecessary trips by carrying a stack of boxes so high that he can barely fit through the door of the St-Olivier grocery store in the St-Jean-Baptiste neighborhood in Quebec City. He could have added another box to the pile, but he would have had to enter the establishment on his knees. We don’t ask for that much…

Scenes like this feed street photography, which requires the photographer to be ready to capture ephemeral situations. The time allowed to camera settings is reduced to a minimum. Sometimes a photo is taken without looking through the viewfinder, hoping to have captured the essential.

This is the case of the scene above. I had just parked in the area and was getting out of the car with the camera still in the bottom of my backpack. Across the street, a delivery man was walking with a stack of boxes taller than him. In a few seconds he would be in the establishment, if the stack didn’t collapse after catching the top of the door frame.

To capture the scene and gain speed, I pulled the camera out of the bag with its preset settings adjusted for street photography and shoot without taking the time to make sure the subject was captured.

Just looking through the viewfinder to frame perfectly would have taken a few extra seconds and been enough to ruin the scene, as in the absence of the delivery man, only the man holding the door would have appeared in the photo. And it is obvious that he is not the main subject. He is very kind to hold the door (it’s the least he can do), but apart from the fact that he seems to have a white support stocking on his left leg (because of the sun), he was the secondary subject from the beginning…

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A Guay crane at work in Old Québec.

This is what a Demag AC435 all-terrain telescopic crane looked like before it received the colors of the Quebec company “Grues Guay“:

Demag AC 435 crane
Demag AC 435 crane

This all-terrain crane was recently at work in Old Quebec, on the Côte de la Montagne. The coast has a fairly steep slope and it was necessary to create an artificial horizontal surface using pieces of wood to make the work safe.

Stabilization of a Guay crane at work.
Stabilization of a Guay crane at work.

The crane operator used a stepladder to get in and out of his vehicle as needed:

Stepladder provided for the Guay crane's driver at work in Old Québec.
Stepladder provided for the Guay crane’s driver at work in Old Québec.

So this gave the following result, once the crane was at work:

All-terrain Demag AC 435 crane at work in Old Québec
All-terrain Demag AC 435 crane at work in Old Québec

With the telescopic arm fully extended:

All-terrain Demag AC 435 crane from Guay at work in Old Québec in 2021.
All-terrain Demag AC 435 crane from Guay at work in Old Québec in 2021.

In the last photo below, you can see a person in a basket that is suspended at the end of the telescopic arm, confident that the tens of thousands of pounds of counterweight will keep the crane from tipping over. The calculation had to be very precise. Everything had to remain stable throughout the day! And since the work on the building lasted several days, the same operation had to be repeated every morning …

Guay crane at work in Old Québec on Côte de la Montagne in 2021.
Guay crane at work in Old Québec on Côte de la Montagne in 2021.

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The upscale sector of Beacon Hill, in Boston.

Porsche in Beacon Hill in Boston 2019
Porsche in Beacon Hill in Boston 2019

In the upscale sector of Beacon Hill, in Boston, there are a lot of luxury cars. It would appear, however, that some of the owners of these cars are less popular…

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A restaurant behind each door…?

Restaurant publicity and washrooms in Victoria.
Restaurant publicity and washrooms in Victoria.

A publicity for a restaurant in Victoria shows on a wall « Food with a view » and sends the customers towards the washrooms. It is only for people with huge appetite. The « view » itself is not specified. But everything is free.

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Conversation between tourists in Old Quebec.

Typical communication between people in the modern world.
Typical communication between people in the modern world.

Why talk when you can write?

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Street photography in Old Quebec.

Playing with the fountain in Quebec City.
Playing with the fountain in Quebec City.

The boy tests the water temperature before running across the water jets located beside Quebec City’s City Hall.

The light in the water jets required an exposure correction of + 1/3. The shutter speed was set at 1/80 which allowed to see the boy clearly at a time when he was not moving too much. This shutter speed also allowed to visualize the water jets effects while limiting the ISO to 1250, even with such a low light. The aperture was only 6.3, just enough for what had to be photographed.

The picture was taken with a Canon 5DSR full frame camera equipped with a Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens.

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A dog’s life in Old Quebec.

A dog's life in Old Quebec.
A dog’s life in Old Quebec.

There are dogs that have a more difficult life than the dog above. For many years, this dog has accompanied his master who works as a coachman in Old Quebec.

This picture was taken with a hand held camera using a shutter speed of 1/60, which is very little considering the 200mm focal length. Normally, with 200mm, a photographer would have to use a speed of 1/200. But the light was not ideal and the ISO already at 3200. I stabilized my position as best as I could by using one of the Château Frontenac’s wall, which is solid enough!

The lens used was a Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM mounted on a Canon 5DSR camera.

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Quebec City and Île d’Orléans in Summer
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Acrobatic performance in Quebec City.

A female acrobat in Québec.
A female acrobat in Québec.

The strange composition of the picture above was only possible because the lady was suspended in the air by a rope surrounding her body. The interaction between the two people is vertical: the young woman observes the man who looks somewhere else.

In the picture below, a woman stands in equilibrium upside down on one hand. Both pictures were taken during RDV Quebec 2017, while an impressive crowd was visiting Quebec City lower part of the town for the tall ships rendez-vous.

Acrobatic performance in Quebec City.
Acrobatic performance in Quebec City.

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Street photography and biking.

Street photography and biking.
Street photography and biking.

The owner of that bike above will be happy to learn that the inner tube is still in good shape as it can obviously hold the air. So in order to repair the bike, it is only necessary to change both wheels, the bike frame, the chain, the chain guard, the saddle, and both fenders.

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Did I miss the onshore call?

There is nothing like a cruise to meet people...
There is nothing like a cruise to meet people…

They told him a cruise was the perfect place to socialize…

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