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Here are some of the shots I took during this year’s Nuit Blanche:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Garden Tower in Toronto #1

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Garden Tower in Toronto #2

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles and New City Hall

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles #1

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles #2

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles #3

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles #4

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Forever Bicycles #5

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: The Rose is Without Why

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Ferris Wheel #1

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Ferris Wheel #2

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Parallax

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: (X)Static Clown Factory

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Illuminated Dean

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Rumbling Drumlins

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013: Monster Child

Headed downtown soon after sunset this evening to catch this year’s Nuit Blanche outdoor art festival. I took a selection of lenses with me, but in the end I only ended up using two of my fast lenses: my wide-angle 25mm lens and my 50-300mm telephoto.

I headed to the TIFF first, where I saw “Cent une tueries de zombies”, a looped compilation film showing 101 instances of zombies meeting oblivion. Fun, but it didn’t make for great photography so I ventured back outside and headed for the CBC building where I took in Skylum:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Skylum

Then up to Metro Hall where I caught the artists putting together “Throw Up”:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Throw Up

Then over to David Pecaut Square to see the crowds taking in “Lifecycles”. I took a number of shots, but the one I liked the most was this one of a couple watching “the grass grow” as someone in the crowd put it:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Couple Watching “Lifecycles”

Walked toward Roy Thomson Hall where I saw the installation “High Water”. Took many photos of it but few came out the way I hoped. The one I like the most conveys what I think was the right sense of poignancy intended:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Detail from “High Water”

After that was the crowd favourite “Green Invaders”. Lots of fun:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Green Invaders

I also liked the collection of neon lighting thrown together in what was called “Invisible Streams: As Above, So Below”:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Invisible Spaces: As Above So Below

Then up Yonge Street where there wasn’t too much in the way of art installations between King and Richmond — save for this one:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Crowd at “Button Happy”

…so I doubled-back and went up Bay Street where I caught the edges of the crowded “Fun House”, which included this guy who was gobsmacked by something:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: Gobsmacked

I concluded the night by checking out some of the installation at Nathan Phillips Square, including “World Without Sun”:

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012: World Without Sun

I then hopped on a streetcar heading east and feeling tired and not wanting to face more crowds, went home.

Took the girls down to see some of this year’s Nuit Blanche late last night. We headed down to Nathan Phillips Square and basically roamed around the area and saw (and heard) what we could see.

Here’s a couple of my favorite shots from the evening:

Nuit Blanche: Cardiac Combustion Chamber 1

While you can’t really see it in this shot so much, the drummer was playing within an “exploded” car (think the technical drawing version of “exploded”), with all of its parts suspended by wires, providing enough space for the percussion equipment.

Was annoyed by another photographer who waded in past the crowd barrier and took close-up shots of the drummer. In so doing he managed to become a largely blobby blur in most of my shots, and worse, encouraged others to do the same. So this shot and one other were the best I could do.

I also like this shot of a kid pointing at something while visiting the sound+light display that accompanied the Chevy Volt ad display:

Nuit Blanche: Volt Promo Tent 1

Many more shots were taken, the rest of which you can see below: