This is part of a strange park that runs for a short distance along the waterfront In Oakville Ontario. It was once part of a large, privately owned, estate, that was re-zoned sometime ago to allow for a development of large and costly houses to be built there. Part of the agreement allowing the re-zoning, required that a strip of land, right along the shore, would be made over to the city for a park. ( At least, this is the story according to a local real estate agent I spoke with.) What we see here is the rather elegant access to a landing dock used for the previous estate, which the city seems to have decided to keep as it is. I find this park has a slightly depressing feel to it. Not sure exactly why. Maybe because it reminds me in some way of Edward Gorey illustrations?
@briaan I didn't really use a filter, I shot in raw then converted to B&W in Capture 1. I used a photoshop action called Watercolour 3 by Photography BB and then did some tweaking to that image to arrive at what you see above.
I think what's sad about it is that you know it's incomplete- it went with something grander, but this is all that's left. You just know it was more substantial than this at one time. All that being said, the editing suits it really well!
