I went to a gun club near Kitchener, Ontario for a story in the mid-90s. It was really hard back then to get a pistol permit in Canada, and now there's a freeze on new purchases unless you're in a club that does training for events in the Olympics. A psychology professor from U of Waterloo invited me. He did say he was in a bit of minority as an academic gun owner. It surprised me that in freestyle shooting they all weren't shooting .22s, but some people preferred larger calibres.
Mark Bellis
Hi all, journalist photographer, Blogging since 1996. Written for Toronto Star, Cité Libre, Toronto and Ottawa Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Morgunblaðið (Iceland), Indian Time (Mohawk/Kanien'kehá:ka) . email markbellis@spamcop.net, enjoy! All content copyright Mark Bellis, and other copyright holders unless where noted.
Monday, July 20, 2026
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Pressed flowers
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Bumper crop of cherries
Lots of cherries from dwarf tree - I only had a few last year, but this year another tree near it bloomed, so it got pollenated by another variety, which it needed. Sour cherries. Not a lot of Japanese beetles this year.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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Friday, July 10, 2026
Wellesley Restaurant, 464 Sherbourne St, Toronto, Ontario, c. 1995
It's probably a Sunday. The saying, maybe by Leacock, was that you could shoot a cannon down Yonge Street on Sunday without hurting anyone, since the Lord's Day Act and provincial laws kept most things closed then unless it was a designated tourist area like Chinatown. Although those laws had been overturned, it still was dead downtown even in the early 90s. The next photos are of my friend, artist and musician Cheryl Jonah, and myself - I'm not sure if they were taken in the Wellesley, but they were on the same roll of film and it looks like the type of restaurant the place was:
Yes kids, in my day you could smoke in restaurants!
I liked this one!
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