McLaughlin Snapshots

11/10/2024

10/26/2024

the last few hangers-on, in the literal sense 🍇

08/13/2024

here’s a little dispatch from the urban mundane. cheers :)

06/30/2024

snapshot from an overcast idyll of a day in the eastern townships

06/18/2024

moody, brooding, melancholic vibes (the streetscape’s, not mine!)

04/28/2024

a brazen, burning pastiche of hues from the fieriest of palates

04/16/2024

a (belatedly posted) eclipse pic 🌓

02/20/2024

a heterogenous cluster of milton-parc structures ❤️

02/10/2024

Montreal is truly a design-lover’s Mecca. Each and every one of the Metro system’s 68 stations features unique architecture; how many stations have you visited?

01/24/2024

A literal dinnertime window into the inner workings of one of The Main’s most vaunted (my opinion!) Chinese dumpling haunts: a restaurant whose exterior aesthetics and interior design—if afforded a mere passing glance during a stroll up or down storied boul. St. Laurent—do a poor job of elucidating the culinary magic performed inside the cramped kitchen, visible just through the thick, heavy panes of glass encased in the restaurant’s corner walls, walls that jut out flush with the sidewalk’s interior edges, demarcating where The Main meets quaint rue Bagg.

I love this city’s urban form; the contrasts between delineated public and private realms; the vibrant ballet of urban life which so uniquely, within the Canadian context, thrives—with its success largely predicated on time-tested Lower Canadian patterns, norms, and standards of urban planning and development: phenomena distinct from those that emerged in Upper Canada and other parts of English Canada over scores of years.

12/09/2023

Sometimes the cathartic qualities of symmetry can rescue a photograph whose subject lacks beauty or charm. Well, I thiiink that’s true, but in practice it’s an impossible theory for me to test. I live in Montreal, after all.