City Daily Photo Theme Day: Double

The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For February, that theme is Double. See how others are interpreting the theme right here. 

I start with these shots taken at Lansdowne Park one morning. Two big doors at one end were open for load-in of the flea market, which is here a couple of days a month. A pair of regular doors flank the big ones.

On another side of the building, the doors as they look closed.

Churches commonly have double doors. Passing by Fourth Avenue Baptist Church in the Glebe, I took this shot of the main entrance.

A few blocks away, and a few nights later, I took this shot of the main doors for St. Matthew's Anglican Church.

Double is Two, and this fits the theme. I attended a concert showing of The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers at Lansdowne Park one night. The movie was screened, with an orchestra and choir doing the music live. A handful of orchestra members were already warming up as I took my seat.

Another two, taken at home- two shoes in the Dutch style. The key chain I bought in the last year from a Dutch store here. The porcelain version was passed down from my parents. Both have a place in my roll top desk.

I have a number of beer mugs and tumblers from Thor's Trinkets, an artisan who appears locally at the Christmas market here each year, as well as Comiccon. Among the tumblers is this one, with cinema's greatest secret agent as the motif. 

Double letters also drew my eye. Two eateries are side by side in an office tower downtown, and I stop by either of them on occasion. This double T is part of the signage for Manhattan's, which specializes in burgers and poutine.

Its neighbour is El Toro Pizza, and I'll stop for a couple of slices if I'm passing through. The double Z suits the theme.

Double is also a pair. These two sit outside the main headquarters of Library and Archives Canada.

Another set of double doors. This is one of the secondary entrances for a funeral home in Centretown.

I took this on a snowy afternoon some days ago. The main post office building downtown is at Sparks Street and Elgin. All three of the entrance points are flanked with stone lions. And because of the shape of the roads- particularly Elgin, which here veers sharply towards the northwest to meet Wellington at Parliament Hill, we have the effect of two streets in one shot.

Lastly, this one is from the archives. Back in 2019 I stopped in at the Ottawa Art Gallery, where on the main floor, a table with mirrors was set up. I took a shot with the phone I had at the time, looking thoroughly disreputable. Double the trouble, so to speak. But who's from the Mirror Universe, or is this the Matrix?

"I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson..."