City - St. John's State - NEWFOUNDLAND Country - Canada
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A small community crammed in up against the hillside near the mouth of St. John's Harbour. In the early 1960s, when my family lived out here, this was a seedy and decrepit - if not outright dangerous - part of town. Nowadays it is a place of artists and eccentrics. And so quaint.
Thanks, Michele. I have a fondness for older things too - rather difficult to indulge in Saskatoon, the City of Parking Lots, let me tell you. But St. John's (the older part, where I was) was quite a study in contrasts. Shiny new glass-and-steel hotels rising out of century-old neighbourhoods, lots of what we would call "sympathetic infill development" in older residential neighbourhoods, that sort of thing.
Nice shot Jon. What a beautiful place. Great detail, composition and color. I like the old + the new altho I like the old best personally. The contrast makes it a 'real' picture of these progressive times we live in. Michele~
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