MDC - The Beginning

I think this is my first entry this year, so I'm officially not doing so well with the updates. I did some soul-searching and decided to write a series of articles for topics. It's pretty tough to always come up with the next new thing when you're settled into a place. So I'll be writing about my commute for a bit. And we'll see where this takes the blog. I've decided to abbreviate "My Daily Commute" to MDC in the title, which will leave a bit more space for the subtitle.

Anyway, so this morning I went off to my 15 to 20 minute walk to work armed with a camera. Weather as you can see was quite kind, which caused some of the shots to be overexposed. I'm still taking these with my digital compact. So now I'm wondering if it's finally time to get a DSLR. But with a Las Vegas bachelor party (a good friend is getting married soon) coming up this weekend and the Christmas travel being expensive, I think I might hold off for yet another bit...

So back to the beginning. I took these photos at the back of our building. The big ugly structure that seems to be in the way of the shots is the Gardiner Express Way. Some clever dude decided to put the highway on pillars so to keep the traffic noise away from the city. However, traffic increased and since no one very much likes being below a highway, some other also clever guy decided that we can just build a street underneath (Lakeshore drive). What neither of them seem to have thought of is that this will generate an enormous echo and hence noise. So here we are: stuck with a big noise generator and some of the heaviest stop-and-go traffic in North America.
Luckily our flat has south exposure and with that only minimal noise pollution.
Okay, I'll be back tomorrow or on the weekend to show you what it looks like under that highway.
Warning spoiler alert: It's not pretty ;)

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