November. 2020. Outside the windows of the North Toronto Swimming Pool. cell phone photographFamilies out in force on Xmas morning at the Eglinton Park hillBack in the 90s Maria and I and a lone male diver signed on to a six-pack dive boat to do a drift dive on a reef off St Croix. Amazing reef, hundreds of thousands of schooling fish, healthy corals and terrific viz. Pre-climate change days. We were at 60 ft and were planning a dive of 50 minutes. Boat was to follow our bubbles. We whizzed above the corals barely having to kick. When we came to the surface after a 5 minute stop at 15 feet, we found ourselves alone a fair distance offshore and a long way from our boat. Unbeknownst to us the current had changed and we drifted one way while the boat went in another pushed by a different surface current. Pictured is Maria and an American CIA agent who signed on for the dive. We pumped up our BCs and waited and waited and waited. Talked ourselves out. Weren’t particularly worried, since we weren’t far from shore, but we were concerned the nanny we hired to look after our sons back at the hotel might freak out. Also thought about the reef sharks we had seen below. After taking this picture were able to flag down the boat that was searching for us!Actress Dawn Wells best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the Gilligan’s Island sitcom (1964 until 1967) has passed away due to the Covid virus. She was in Toronto five years ago to help open the Toronto International Boat Show. I got her to pose for this picture in a very expensive Sea Ray, a far cry from the Minnow. Very knowledgeable about boats and fishing and Toronto. A joy to photograph.Actress Dawn Wells best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the Gilligan’s Island sitcom (1964 until 1967) has passed away due to the Covid virus. She was in Toronto five years ago to help open the Toronto International Boat Show. I got her to pose for this picture in a very expensive Sea Ray, a far cry from the Minnow. Very knowledgeable about boats and fishing and Toronto. A joy to photograph.
Photographs – In focus and also the best of sweirsweir’s Art of the Blur. Fall 2020. Taken with various Olympus cameras, Iphones, Ipads and pictures supplied by associates (where noted). Contact me if you wish to use any of the photographs (usually no cost). stephen@stephenweir.com
Used in the filming of It2frequent sight on street corners and in the parks of TorontoPort Hope, downtown used for filming of It and It2closing service for Caribana downtown at St Stephens on King St East. Anglican with members of the FMCJane Finch May 2020Guess Where? Beside Niagara Falls. Only place that has a recycle bin for ponchos!Still surviving Covid after 10 years Sept 2020Castlefield AvenueSuiting up beside the St Lawrence RiverHighway 2 chipwagon opened shop in August across from shore dive site just east of Prescott. St Lawrence riverDivers in Prescott. 40-50 divers every Saturday and Sunday at the wrecksite. No charge. No boat needed! Crowds dropped off by mid-OctoberPhoto from Airwaves 2016- Young Karin, an Icelandic singer still in her pajama phase. Was often called Young Karen but that has changed with because of the new meaning of Karen. Iceland music festival November 2016you wash the dog. you buy our soap. you pay us for the water. you open the front door – it is covid time at Yonge and St Clair in Toronto. October 2020Media night at the Italian Film Festival. August 202oin front of Roehampton condos. Public art. Yonge and Eg – TorontoWaiting for our food at Port Hope’s Schnitzel drive-inTwin Lion platePORT CREDIT – fishing for salmonEvery gift bought after December 2nd was purchased online.Had to find watermain shutoff for plumbers on Boxing Day – sprung a leak (and the furnace broke down)Andrew, Mike and Donna talk to the family in Ottawa and Osgoode, Ontario Christmas Day. Dining Room has become the Zoom RoomDoggy Mural and Christmas stickers on the window – Gerrard and RiverChristmas afternoon. Donna, Mike and AndrewWeir Here Zoom screen
Robot Broil House, Yonge Street, north of Bloor. Maria took picture with her cell phoneChimney on next door neighbours house is all I seePublic art in front of apartment/condo complex. Davisville Avenue, Toronto, ONTSilly Pigeons. Photo taken on Sunday. Bank doesn’t open till MondayOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAWeir Team. Popular mid-town Toronto real estate company. No relation.Popular CHUM FM morning hosts aren’t popular these days thanks to their maskless picture. Defaced. Broadway and Yonge, Mid-town Toronto.someone used two homemade stickers to point out that the two CHUM radio morning hosts are wearing anti-covid masks!Leaside pony left out for the garbage truck. TorontoBack alley butcher shop, set for IFMonster’s lair, sewer pipe, If movie(s). Port HopeMural painted for the making of the movies, If. Back alley downtown Port HopeGina, Donna, Andrew, Mik, Maria and Peter, Schnitzel House patioPort Hope’s Roadside Schnitzel HouseOn the banks of the mighty Ganaraski River, Port HopePORT CREDIT Fishing for Salmon in the Ganaraski RiverPHONE BREAK FOR THE YOUNGUNs Schnitzel House Patio, Port Hope
tent city – Toronto City Hall – Nathan Phillips Square
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Gas Station Holy Water – sanitizing your hands anyway you can
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIt was 42-years ago that I took this picture for the editorial page of the Lakefield Leader. Editorial all about the joys of summer in the Kawarthas. Nothin’ changed, except the bait shop boat house fell over a few weeks after I took this black and white picture. Lakefield, Ontario, Canada.Public Art yonge/eg
BLM at city hall Toronto July 4thview from the Niagara Falls Canada trainmaid of the mistMostly empty (because of virus rules) Cdn Hornblower shipdeck crowded, US’s Maid of the Mist – under the Canadian fallsNiagara Falls Canada – their version of the Lock BridgeEmpty OnDuty 24 antiperspirant serves as a glasses holder on my deskOnly in Niagara Falls Canada will you find a recycle bin for ponchosFlying the Atlantic Mas coloursSign of the times, July 4th city hall toronto blm protest by atlantic massign of the times BLM at city hallOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAmore city hall blm interviewsBLM city hallBLM city hall Atlantic Mas
Akil interviewed by Global TV and CBC about BLM at city hall in Toronto
tent city at city hall 2-days before it will be torn down
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2 pack a dayer 60-year old found-art photograph. No it isn’t me. Unclaimed snapshots from a long closed Windsor shop. Child is holding two packs of Export A cigarettes. Why our grandparents’ smoked. 1960
Actually a warehoused funhouse wall at the CNE. Old photo but using re: virus shutdownrelatively good condition – found on Briar HillYonge and MontgomeryMay 23rd poop bags Avenue Rd north of stclaircell photo near lawrence and bathurst – covus relatedMaria took this picture in the 80staking pictures of the stuff I am finding in my attic cleanup. So far no bites on the 1990’s race car. Never out of the boxtaking pictures of the stuff I am finding in my attic cleanup. So far no bites on the 1990’s race car. Never out of the boxBACK ALLEY MURAL IN THE GAY VILLAGEOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAVICTORIA DAY IN TORONTO ON YONGE STOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAContact / Band photography show outdoors Brock St TorontoOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAI am cleaning out my attic of my files. Finding some interesting stuff. Back in the seventies I probably attended a presser at the GM Oshawa Assembly Plant. Swag was this coaster set. No idea why I got it, or what it stands for. Box in terrible shape but set itself is in good shape. Ipad photo
lakefield leader photograph by sweirBack when it was ok to paint your house pink. Andy’s house next to us. 1992. 111 Ontario Street (we were at 109) downtown Toronto
Picture for the Lakefield Leader. 1978 and 13 year old Bill Speed (Toronto hockey player) sells Maple Leaf coach a power play lottery ticket to raise money for the Ontario Hockey AssociationMaple Leaf Coach Roger Neilson visits the Lakefield Lions Club to talk about hockey. Neilson is a Peterborough Country resident. Wasn’t allowed to use my flash – q’uelle domageMy Back Pages (cleaning out my files during the Pandemic). 45 years ago Joe Clark came to Peterborough to promote his leadership of the Conservative party to the local media. His wife Maureen McTeer was with him, but would not let me photograph her because she had just broken her arm and didn’t want to be pictured with a cast. As I remember she broke her arm in a wild Ferris Wheel ride at local fair. At the time I was the the editor/photographer for the Lakefield LeaderJoe Clark at the podium. 1974ish presser in PeterboroughOne of a kind sweir business cardMy Back Pages (cleaning out my attic files during the Pandemic). The day Dief the Chief came to town. Lakefield, Ontario. 45ish years ago. Believe it was a guest appearance by the former Prime Minister at the Lion’s Club luncheon. I remember I was fine $1 for not wearing a tie and swearing. Don’t know who he is talking to. I was the editor/photographer at the Lakefield Leader at the time.
My Back Pages (cleaning out my attic files during the Pandemic). The day Dief the Chief came to town. Lakefield, Ontario. 45ish years ago. Believe it was a guest appearance by the former Prime Minister at the Lion’s Club luncheon. I remember I was fine $1 for not wearing a tie and swearing. Don’t know who he is talking to. I was the editor/photographer at the Lakefield Leader at the time.Bonaire.The early 80sstore typewriter 40 years later – picture by George Socka
in 1994ish had a contract to help with promo of the antiflea drug thanks to Mary ManakDive in Hamilton Harbour 1994 with Environment Minist
bachelor apartment shared with Bruce Paton for a month – then he robbed me!
Getting my daily steps in at night. Just before midnight I came upon these messages from three different households on Briar Hill in North Toronto.
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Getting my daily steps in at night. Just before midnight I came upon these messages from three different households on Briar Hill in North Toronto.Getting my daily steps in at night. Just before midnight I came upon these messages from three different households on Briar Hill in North Toronto.four authors at last month’s RBC Taylor Prize luncheon
2020 RBC Taylor Prize winner Mark Bourrie for Bush Runner – PHOTO : Tom Sandler (CNW Group/Charles Taylor Prize)OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASunLime shoot
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Ignoring monsters on the streets of Bogota – posted this month – taken last year
Ignoring death on the streets of Bogota – sweir photo posted this month – taken last year
Perdita Felicien gave me this pr photo for an article I did on her new show all-round champion TVO. She is in the middlefor an article about the new mas season – not my photobelow photo supplied by reggae mas band for this article in the caribbean camera
my foot. in green room with robyn doolittlelining up to get finalists to sign books – ben mcnally books and brunch and king edward hotelBook signing at the king eddie – it was all a blur – the art of the blurziya signs reality bubblemark speaks at books and brunch – sold outlobby of the king eddie very empty because of virus
selling the taylor prize books at harbourfront panel discussion with the authors – bookseller from the University of Toronto bookstore
John Moore and Robyn Doolittle
Robyn at the mike, harbourfrontJessica at harbourfront with two aunts of dead women lost on the highway of tearsauthors sign books at the end of the books and brunch talkTimothy on John in studiomark by kj at the books and brunchRobyn doolittle waits for the next fan to get her book signed. photo at king edward by kj mullins, taylor prize books and brunch
