Fred Lum takes walks around the city with an informal group of his photographer friends, capturing details of the streets with non-digital and often unconventional cameras. This shot of a utility pole in Kensington Market was taken with a pinhole camera, the technology that created the very first photographs centuries ago.
Mr. Lum, a Globe and Mail staff photographer, noted that poles like this one - textured with the history of a thousand notices of lost dogs and violin lessons - will one day be extinct. Postering bylaws so far have protected the right to put up notices from the community, but concrete and metal poles will eventually replace wooden ones.
"You could say it is a statement about freedom of speech," Mr. Lum said. "But it's also just a cool picture of staples on wood.
"It reminds me of barnacles on a rock."