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Canada Correspondent, @nytimes.com. Mostly photos, mostly made on film, a lot of it large. austen@nytimes.com
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More wonders of Washburn Island on Lake Scugog near Valentia, Ontario. The island is actually an peninsula. (Hasselblad SWC, 38mm f4.5 Zeiss Biogon, Fuji 400H)

Two partly collapsed buildings, all their paint long gone, surround by overgrown forest.
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Thank you

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Washburn "Island," Lake Scugog, near Valentia, Ontario. (Hasselblad SWC, 38mm f4.5 Zeiss Biogon, Fuji 400H)

A dock on a calm morning with some fog. There are two Canadian flags flanking it. Some of the dock boards are painted red and there is a red bench built into the dock.
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Thank you. That’s a very fine example. It’s great that it still has the pre AT&T breakup name.

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At the same time they could also blend in.

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My theory is that while wireless is obviously their underlying disease, Uber is the pneumonia that’s killing them off rapidly. A lot of the survivors are/were in places where people called cabs.

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The magnificent cylindrical phone booths at Central Station, Montreal. The remaining ones at the Montreal-Trudeau Airport vanished a few months ago. (Hasselblad SWC, 38mm f4.5 Zeiss Biogon, Kodak Tri X)

Two cylindrical payphone booths made of corrugated metal in a mostly empty train hall. The light in the one on the right is burned out. A large arrivals and departures board is in the distance.
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Most of Ontario's On Route highway service centers still offer pay phones. On very rare occassions I've seen truck drivers use them. Most of them are kept well out of general view. (Leica M Monochrom, 24mm f2.8 Elmarit M ASPH).

A wall showing, from left, a ATM, two pay phones one of which is lower for accessibility, a Pepsi vending machine and a terminal to check lottery tickets.
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The junction of the Yellowhead and CanAm HIghways in Dafoe, Saskatchewan on an extremely windy and dusty day. (Hasselblad SWC, 38mm f4.5 Zeiss Biogon, Kodak TriX)

A gravel parking lot with the shadow of a light looming. A sign spells out MOTEL vertically. A car is moving away from the camera on a highway.
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Slightly deranged cat robot server at a sushi place on Water Street in St. John's, Newfoundland. It has turn signals. (Leica M Monochrome, 28mm f2.8 Elmarit M)

A cylindrical robot with a cat's "head" containing a flat panel displaying to upturned eyes. A stone clad bar is behind it.
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Ian Austen
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Canada Correspondent, @nytimes.com. Mostly photos, mostly made on film, a lot of it large. austen@nytimes.com
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