Another new drain discovery in Montreal taken with a new wide angle lens. I was starting to get frustrated with the limitations of my old lens. It wasn't nearly wide enough to be able to photograph certain things underground. Not that this shot is an example of one of those things, but Tokina's 12-24mm should be more than enough to fit everything I want into the frame. It's also a fair amount sharper too which is always good.

Another one of Montreal's sewers, tentatively named Pee Neuf because it runs under Pie IX boulevard. As far as I can tell, it was built during the 60s, perhaps to help accommodate the growing residential population of Rosemont and adjacent areas. It's an unusually deep one- roughly eighty feet or so beneath street level, a depth which exceeds most of our city's subway lines. Over the course of its length are several mid-level connections that cause nice little cascades of water to come down like the one shown here. There's also a touch of brick found in these sections, most likely because engineers figured it would hold up better to the forces of erosion.

Laval, a community found North of the island of Montreal is proving to have a few interesting bits and pieces of storm drains here and there. It's nice to be able to get inside something through an outfall for a change. Just about everything in and around Montreal involves going in through a manhole chamber; something which isn't always so easy to do, especially around busy streets. The fact that that storm drains like this one don't have shit flowing through them is a nice little bonus too.

When it's cold outside, underground is the best place to be, especially if it involves a steam tunnel.

Seems as though there was a bit of team effort involved in filling out this one.

Grid patterns and employer signage. Two of my favourite things. It's as though the owners of this place saw me coming.

A workbench inside the Owens Illinois glass factory in etobicoke, Ontario. I probably should've shot this with a larger aperture because the background's a bit too busy. Details like the "Thank you and good bye, B1!", the half-empty (half-full?) plastic bottle and the collection of tools don't really stand out as much as I had hoped they would.

Another view inside Montreal's Silo #3. Not the most interesting of grain elevators out there, but it still has its moments.

I guess it's time to get posting again. I figured the best way to start off the new year was with a picture containing a little T&A. And hey speaking of T&A, Teri and Andrew (aka yours truly) are now officially engaged. The wedding's set for June, and won't be taking place in a sewer or a grain elevator, but on an island in Greece. It's ok though. I can think of worse places to have to have a wedding.

Storage bay inside the Miron complex and a nice example of industrial mushroom columns, too.

Taken inside the former Miron complex in the port of Montreal. It was originally designed to be used a grain elevator, but was later retrofitted to store cement powder and other aggregates related to construction.

Loose translation: keep your work environment clean and tidy. Apparently I need to do the same because I can't seem to keep dust from getting on my negatives.

Inside a work area of another mill found on the property of the Jeffrey asbestos mine.It's a mine that's been opening and closing for the past decade or more, but now with resources depleted, a bankrupted owner and unfavourable market conditions, it seems as though the chances of it ever reopening are slim. The mine, along with many of the others I've posted pictures of here in the past, are being maintained by a Quebec-owned holding company. No plans have been announced for any of the properties, but it's only a matter of time before they auction off what they can and demolish the rest.

I think this sign might have been better suited on the wall of the room in the preceding photo. "Please don't leave your stuff on the tables