Happy New Year to all my readers/viewers!

The following blog posts represent the most-read, “liked” and shared content produced in 2018.

Picking winners can be a bit of a weird science. The vagaries of social media and search engine algorithms have more to do with what gets seen than anything else. So, once again, I’ve tried to mix total page views with other metrics, including reader response and comments.

I don’t deliberately chase the news of the day to develop posts (I’d get a lot more traffic if I did) but one or two posts benefitted from topicality.

I’ve added posts which endure beyond initial interest to the Best Of Page.

Counting this one, I made 70 blog posts this year — the record number boosted by November’s 30-day photo challenge, none of which, you’ll notice, appear in this list. Still, I learned a few new things from the exercise and reinforced what I already knew: quantity does not always lead to quality.

As 2018 comes to a close, I’m assessing how to best divide my time between the many tasks involved in maintaining this blog page and the larger website.

A Texaco station, coincidence and convergence, at Broadway & Heather, Vancouver, BC

How the Internet brought together two vintage views of lost Vancouver architecture.

Read More...

Fishing Wednesfield’s Bentley Canal, 1988

Casting back in time: a memoir about canals, fish, and a bridge to the past.

Read More...

Ray Parker Sr. (1929-2013): a memorial gallery

A tribute to Ray Parker Sr. (1923-2013) "a true vaudevillian" entertainer.

Read More...

Vancouver to Toronto by Greyhound bus: a photo essay

Bussing to Toronto: a Canadian documentary in Kodachrome

Read More...

The Gutenberg disaster: WordPress goes rogue

The carnage left in the wake of WordPress's decision to force the Gutenberg editor on the masses.

Read More...

Bathurst & Queen Streets, Toronto, 1988

Winter street photography in nineteen-eighties Toronto

Read More...

Introducing new old photos of Vancouver in the eighties

Raymond Parker Photo announces new additions to the ‘80s Vancouver photography collection.

Read More...

Streetcar, Queen Street West & Palmerston, Toronto, 1988

How and when: Making a fleeting photo of a Toronto streetcar.

Read More...

Welcome to Toronto: the city that never sleeps

Sleeping above the trains in Toronto, a photographer's journey.

Read More...

Bye-bye Old Blue, hello to Victoria’s new Johnson Street Bridge

March 31, 2018 festivities in Victoria, BC bid farewell to city's old "Blue Bridge" and hello to a shiny new Johnson…

Read More...