Rija's Photo Blog

finals for street ppl

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:30:27 +0000

To see the finals shots for street ppl: http://www.rija.ca/EI_Old/images.html and under Newest Photographs, click on the first group “People”.

this will have to do til i code it for my new website, in html5 and css3

final artwork

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:29:26 +0000

am starting printing w/correct profiles…so now you get to start seeing some of the final artwork.

whistle for carribana

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:57:44 +0000

meet a carribana fan. kieth collects whistles, $5 each. he’s got about 7. and is hoping to go back to carribana next year and get more. he’s shy.

reintroducing grant in all his glory

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:33 +0000

so i learned how to make black and whites, the proper way. and now i might actually do black and white in my final images. here is grant again, he was one of my first photographs of this street series (sept 15 post). and i have to say, im okay with this.

seelim in the spotlight

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:48:16 +0000

seelim, i don’t know if im spelling his name correctly, was hilarious with his first pose. i walked by him at first and he kept talking to me as i was walking. sort of muttering, please… so i went back and asked if i could take his picture, and he said sure and totally burst into this huge expansive pose. he was smiling and sort of muttering. he sort of reminded me of galum… maybe i shouldn’t say that?

look what the windsor winds blew in

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:46:17 +0000

ron hails from windsor, on. he’s here for the week complete with his collection of tattoos. a unigoat; a syringe and the number 13 1/2. he says a unigoat is a goat and unicorn, symbolizing good and evil in us all. very gestalt of him. the syringe is from his 4 years on speed. he got clean in at brentwood in Windsor. it took him 4 months or maybe 16 months? on his cheek the number 13 1/2 is reminding him of his unwitting involvement in a bank robbery back in the late 80′s. thirteen is the number of jurors + judge at his trial. and 1/2 represents his 50/50 chance outcome. he spent 11 months in prison, for his part in the crime.

harmonica steve

admin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:34:13 +0000

i ran into steve on saturday evening. he says he’s normally by the ferry docks. he plays the harmonica. he’s a kind of concerned about the coming winter. he was very enthusiastic about playing his harmonica for me. he told me that he had a job before, but it paid only $3 an hour and then his boss accused him of theft. for some reason i really felt bad for steve. i sort of felt he should be home in a nice warm bed somewhere.

facinating character…

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:15:17 +0000

joanne, was so much fun to shoot. she loved posing and was giggling once she started. she’d be good in sales cause she kept ‘closing’ by asking for more money for her poses. her hair gave her lots of personality. although towards the end, she seemed to have a beef with the aliens who took her body for ten years. i mentioned that her body looked fine to me. she just gave me a look…

i forgot about street animals

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:03:26 +0000

meet muckwa! that’s native for bear. rick is from northern ontario, but he’s been in toronto for 20 years. muckwa is his good friend. they hang out near the eaton centre. muckwa is very friendly. well, he was friendly to me! good muckwa. he was barking at someone else. maybe one day i’ll do a story on street pets. or maybe not.

85 and still biking

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:00:02 +0000

from communist bulgaria in the 1940′s. peter came here with his son. his son has since grow up, gotten married and gone back to bulgaria. he says he’s 85, never spent a day in the hospital. peter did pull out his false teeth to show me that he’d had dental work. every day he can be found on the same park bench. and on rainy days in the bottom level in the eaton centre. he asked if i could bring him back a picture. or maybe he wanted all my pictures so he could sell them on the street for me. I didn’t fully understand that final directive. he still bikes!