Rick Carroll

It’s wonderful to see our soldiers back at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa. What could be more Canadian?

Photographs>Memorial Soldiers for more photographs.

Rick Carroll

People are probably wondering why I would call this post “Bank of Canada”? The reason is that I feel that companies are not the brick and mortar but the people that work there.

Once again I asked this woman if I could photograph her and she had no problems with it. Perhaps her blank stare is a moment of her feeling awkward.

Rick Carroll

Well downtown was pretty quiet today. The combination of heatwave+pandemic however gave me the opportunity to chat with this young woman trying to sell boat cruises on the Ottawa river. This was one of the rare occasions that I actually asked if I could take a photograph and she said “Yes”.

Good for her.

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share with me. I hope you like the photograph.

Rick Carroll

Flawed? For sure. Needs work? Absolutely. I am talking about this photograph and that is why it has not been posted.

I walk the streets of the best city in Canada almost daily and that city is Ottawa. ( Sorry Toronto ) I see law enforcement everywhere and I have decades of seeing and knowing the incredible work these men and women do. Work that most of us could never muster enough courage to do. Instead we criticize.

So many cry foul, look to reduce budgets and at the extreme, look to eliminate. All because of a few bad apples and perhaps some outdated practices and policies. Much like this photograph, police forces need to be worked a bit and edited with the help of others in the community, a joint effort.

Personally I can’t imagine being under this magnifying glass constantly. How would any of us fare out given such conditions?

Perhaps it isn’t evident to everyone, but we are in a time of great change and the corona virus has been the catalyst for many of these changes.

So… A few bad apples eh? All of it seems like nothing when I compare it to the bushels of bad apples in today’s society. Positive and permanent change can happen and it will. We just need to show support to our law enforcement and say thank you.

We need them and they need us.

Rick Carroll