there are two floral shops around the danforth that i always check out. this is bernard thibault's, about six city blocks from my apartment building. he used to dress the display windows of the competing big department stores (long been out of business) in downtown toronto, the eaton's and simpson's. i photographed this shop's window display in january during the same subject challenge week (see http://365project.org/summerfield/365-again/2012-01-26 ). i missed out on his Christmas display but i will make sure that this year i get to photograph his window.
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Very cool display. Like how you captured the light of the bird cages. It almost brings an eerie air to it. It almost reminds me of Cabinets of Curiosities. They started in the sixteenth century as a sort of mico museum of the creator's world. Things he or she loved about the area they lived in. Eventually it was mutated into something more....sublime. By the 1800's, which was basically the ending of them, they were used as displays for the wierd, grotesque anomalies of the world. Shrunkin heads, mutated body parts perserved in jars, strange exotic animals...etc.
@losthorizon - looking at it again now it does look kind of eerie. i didn't come by there in july so he would have changed it to something else. i should pass by today maybe and see what he has for august. he normally has this elegant lively arrangements but i suppose it's difficult to come up with something new and fresh when you've been doing it for more than 30 years as he has. thank you, beau.
August 4th, 2012
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@alia_801 - got you impressed eh? thank you, alia.
@catsmeowb - thank you, camille. i love that mirror frame that sometimes i tend to overuse it. it's nice though especially on flower photos.