Massey Hall, 178 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON

© Christine Mastroianni, all rights reserved

When I walk around in places like Toronto I always have my head up in the sky because while there is much to see at street level, there is also so much going on overhead. Have you ever done that?

I originally started gazing upwards because of all the tall buildings that brazenly reached towards the sky higher than us common folk could never dream of reaching! Then I started to discover the most incredible architectural details that were perched at the top of the more modest buildings and I was hooked. Now I always shoot upwards. Not only do you capture things that people who walk Toronto's downtown streets on auto-pilot never care to notice, but you can create the most interesting negative space imagery when the tops of the buildings appear to converge!

Besides, you could never take a picture like this of a cultural and historical icon like Massey Hall from over on Yonge street with a zoom lens - you would have had to have been directly underneath it! And that's just where I was!