Urban Landscape

As a young photojournalist in the early '70s I would spend days shooting urban assignments. I loved this so much that in my spare time I would walk the same streets with Leica M3's over my shoulder shooting people and cityscapes. The grittier the better.
When I returned to photography after a long absence I resumed my urban wandering. But, I quickly discovered the joys of landscape and nature work. Today I shoot very little in the city, but when I do find something that captures me it makes me feel like I did back when photography was a fresh new passion.
Shopping Cart — Toronto, 1993
In 1993 I was just beginning to return to photography after more than a decade's absence.  I bought a Nikon F4 and several lenses, and would wander the urban landscape looking for images.
One fall morning I came upon this abandoned shopping cart lying in a stream bed in one of Toronto's numerous ravines.  Though the image satisfied me it was the beginnings of a thought process that lead me away from the ...