{"id":32071,"date":"2025-08-06T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32071"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:48:11","slug":"everything-is-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/everything-is-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"everything is relative …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allandale Ontario Station c1906 or earlier. A slight crop of the original postcard by The Valentine and Sons’ Publishing Co. #100942<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. …When this charming postcard of the GTR station in Allandale was sold, Grand Trunk trains delivered passengers to\/from Toronto; This end of Kempenfeldt bay was clean, sail boats floated along on a summer’s breeze and people ate a hearty meal at the station restaurant.<\/p>\n

Today, GTR and its successor, CNR, no longer deliver passengers; The ending ‘d’ was dropped from Kempenfelt<\/a> bay; the end of the bay is\/was polluted; the pleasure sail boats have departed; a dirty 30s government dock was build and allowed to deteriorate; and the restaurant is no more.<\/p>\n

In the 1840s daguerreotypes were considered marvellous. Portraits could be taken in minutes and the final product delivered to the sitter in under an hour. And it was cheap compared to a miniature (painting). \u00a0No one cared that the colour was lost unless hand painted. No one cared that it was a one-off image. It was remarkable that a sitting took only a few minutes. So short that special clamps and furniture were sold to briefly hold the subject steady.<\/p>\n

Today we capture an image in full colour in sub-seconds; view it and if acceptable send it anywhere in the world seconds later. Who ever hear of minutes<\/em> to capture a portrait and then mail it (the original!) to another taking days, weeks or months! Indeed things are relative – and we are so spoiled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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