I have pictures of this building too, but mine are night shots. Do you know what exactly this building is for?

It's a sewage treatment plant isn't it?

Yeah, I think it's just a big surge tank that gets used by the Ashbridge's Bay waste water treatment plant.

I had heard about weird photography rules in the United States, but never here in Canada.

I think we should all go down there and shoot pictures of this. HA

Nice photo. Damn shame that it'll never find its way online.

Hmm, Ashbridges Bay right??? I know where I'll be the next time i'm jaunting on the east side of the City. Essential infrastructure...ha...overinflated sense of self worth for that City Staffer.

Yes, worth the hassle.

I got hassled there this spring! I was taking a shortcut from the beach to Queen St with my SLR on a tripod (with a pinhole body cap) and took a few snaps with the digital P&S. The guy was a jerk, too, considering it wasn't fenced or even posted anywhere I could see.

That's one interesting construction, that's for sure.

How does it feel to be an outlaw? ;)

Cool story! Nice shot of an unusual building.

I like it, very Dusseldorf's School' style.

this is in canada? oh puh-lease, makes me want to start a photoset on Flickr taking nothing but pictures of "essenial infrastructure". if a terrorist wanted to know which things to blow up they would take pics, wait for the warning and then blow it up.

Yeah, I should probably mention that the woman who stopped me was very polite throughout our conversation so I never felt the need to get all up in her face about it. She even let me finish taking a shot I was working on setting up before she arrived. Of course, by that point I had already given her all the information contained on my driver's license.

She also mentioned that if I wanted to I had permission to take a picture of the 8x8 foot metal box just lies adjacent to the big tank. I thought that was kind of funny.

Good thing the seagulls didn't hassle you, as well. Worth trouble, I think.

It's just a fucking joke isn't it? If someone wanted to photograph something with the intention of doing something nefarious with it they probably wouldn't be as obvious as you, there are a thousand ways to take a photograph without looking like you're taking one. It's just a pointless attempt to look like they're doing something.

I like the result though man, I think it's very much in your style. Nice one.

I absolutely love risky pics. Even just on this basis, I like it.

The Senator Diner on Victoria St in downtown Toronto has a policy that you can't take a picture of their establishment without written permission.

How they enforce this is completely beyond me... as is why they would bother.

Fascinating structure, too bad it's so "essential"
and a nice shot too.
Next time they chase you out, try some work from the lookout in Hamilton, near the top of the Sherman Cut. I think you can get two bridges, the harbour entrance, a steel mill and part of the sewage treatment plant all in one cluttered shot ... and, apparently none of this is essential. If it were, wouldn't they take it in at night?

The Senator Restaurant's no-camera policy didn't keep me from doing a *360 degree panorama* inside the joint one early Sunday morning. You're welcome to view it at http://www.hainsworth.com -- I even got the business card of the owner to ask permission, but the wait staff just told me to be quick.