{"id":10968,"date":"2013-10-28T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2013-11-08T17:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:54:52","slug":"photographic-flaneur-downtown-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2013\/10\/28\/photographic-flaneur-downtown-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"A photographic fl\u00e2neur through downtown Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an unseasonably cold and rainy day this past July when I started to get restless, feeling as though I had been stuck in the house all day, and sensing that my chronic cabin fever was only going to escalate into full-on “get-me-out-of-here-now” fast.<\/p>\n

Realizing that the only way I would be able to rectify this feeling was to get out and go for a “fl\u00e2neur”, or more simply put, a conscious stroll around the city, and around other ‘urbanites’, I grabbed my iPhone (my camera of choice for these kinds of urban wanderings) and headed for Elgin.<\/p>\n

Dodging puddles and trying to manage both an umbrella and a smart phone, I let my curiosity decide where I would go or when I would turn, deciding it did not matter where I went, as long as I was aware of my presence in that space and time.<\/p>\n

Now this is, of course, a highly popularized part of town, and many of the sights I saw were the same you would expect to see in any ‘tourist’s guide to the city’. But it was for those very reasons that I wanted to walk it, with no purpose other than to enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of Ottawa, and to be present in a part of town that belongs to both Ottawa as Capital, and Ottawa as home.<\/p>\n

And so I\u00a0fl\u00e2neured.<\/p>\n

Can you name these spots? The get a bit harder after the first one.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"museum_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"facade_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"flowers_OF\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"doors_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"house_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"church_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"cafe_OF_KristenGagnon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Images by Kristen Gagnon<\/em><\/p>\n

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