I was at McDonald's having lunch with my friend Johnny, when he noticed this rare horizontal rainbow in the sky above us. It was what is known as a circumhorizontal arc, a phenomenon related to refraction and the alignment of the ice crystals in upper-level cirrus cluds. When first observed, it was about 30 degrees wide, but I did not have my camera at the time. About 30 minutes later, I got my camera, and was able to take these shots of the end of it. The shots above...

Down By The Main

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC

This post complements CE's Red Light District article posted earlier today. He has already described a great deal of the following pictures quite well. I suggest you have a look at his article. Superock Tattoo Parlor has been around as long as I can remember. The Romance sex shop used to have a giant apple over the door that has disappeared in recent times. It used to be kept immaculately clean, but not anymore. Boutique Erotika, another sex shop across the street. The blank windowpane with the tree reflected in it actually houses the silhouette screen that shows the...

Red Light District

author: CE : Montreal, QC

After passing through the north gates of Chinatown on blvd St-Laurent you will enter a noticeably seedier part of the city. This is the part of Downtown is generally known as the Red Light District (I've also heard it referred to as the "tenderloin" for some reason, I'm sure the French probably have some good names for it too). The area is well known as a good place to get any sort of drug, prostitute, or poutine desired. Cheap import stores are also in high abundance slightly further...

Tour of Montreal’s Chinatown

author: CE : Montreal, QC

For a city the size of Montreal, its Chinatown is quite small. Located just outside of the financial district and sandwiched between Vieux-Montréal (old Montreal) and the Red Light District, the seven or eight blocks that make up Chinatown is a great place to eat authentic Chinese food, buy cheap imports, or just hang out and people watch. On blvd St-Laurent looking south toward Vieux-Montréal. A recent fire took out a couple buildings. When I took the picture about a month ago, you could...

Quite Possibly the Weirdest Mural Ever Made!

author: CE : Montreal, QC

Police

author: CE : Montreal, QC

Bicycle cops at the annual anti police brutality march in Côte-des-Neiges: Outside the American Consulate at a demo protesting the war in Afghanistan:

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