Photo du Jour : Berri Square

10 comments

1. I have an idea to make urban photography a little more productive: Pick up the litter before you take the picture. It will only take a few seconds. I miss living on Ontario. Montreal people are so incredibly dirty.

2. Of course not, it makes the picture way more intresting… its the cachet that gives Montreal un je ne sais quoi.

   /sarcasm

3. Montreal Guy, it wouldn’t be an accurate picture if the photographer picked up the litter first. You know Place Émilie-Gamelin aka Berri Square is a place where a lot of marginal and homeless people congregate. I’ve seen such places in Toronto and in many other towns and they aren’t a bit cleaner.

   This square also plays host to a series of summer events, and it would be interesting to take photos at some of them.

   It is better to organise corvées to clean up the litter in your neighbourhood park, street, etc. Sure municipal sanitation has a role to play, but can’t be everywhere. Don’t forget the big corvée on Mont-Royal (see Tree Tuesday).

4. Oh my! Two cups and a bottle. What squalor! You’d never see that in any other city. / sarcasm

   Rest easy as it appears that in the previous dozen or so photos, the photographers cleaned up before snapping the shutter. Or hadn’t you noticed?

   MontrealGuy do ever clean up random litter or do you just complain about other people not doing so?

5. I didn’t know this was about postcards.

6. I take my broom outside and pick up random litter every week around my block. Specially the one right by garbage cans which is way too common here. I used to do it in Ontario too. I can’t do it all by myself though, that’s why I’m asking for help. If there were as many litterers as un-litterers there would be no litter I guess. Maria thanks for the info.

7. I do also clean up around, but everyone in the co-op does: that is part of living in a co-op. There is a FILTHY alley round the corner from here but I’m almost afraid to pick up the stuff – no, not drug paraphenalia or used condoms that could spread AIDS or hepatitis B, just a lot of stuff that looks like it could give one a nasty cut. We’ll be on top of the matter; a neighbour started a successful petition to get two traffic lights on Beaubien between St-Laurent and St-Denis, because there were a lot of speeders and accidents.

   Yes, the mountain corvée is important: I’ve already done it.

8. Aren’t these the structures that guy from BC received a fine for sitting on last year?

9. I hate litter, especially in parks. But what makes this photo so charming, so indicative of that particular park and its regulars, IS the litter. You have to know Montreal to know just how great a photo that is. It speaks volumes.

10. appercu?