While visiting in Waterloo this summer, we decided to go for a walk.

I thought that I'd take my camera along to see what I might find to photograph.

M_24_0018 This is a former Seagram's distillery, now an apartment building.

So what was here that drew my eye?

Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

I saw not a building but patterns, the repetitive shapes of the windows and shutters.

M_24_0013 Here again I saw patterns in the repeated vertical lines of the fence boards.

Oh, yes, the orange flowers? They break up the pattern and draw your eye.

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Look, it's a hat. Instead I saw not a hat but circles.

M_24_0024 More circles creating a pattern.

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Someone had already created the art. I only saw and copied it.

The railing and step add another dimension, depth.

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The famous Magnum photographer Ernst Haas said that colour is joy.

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The diagonal line created by the stairs adds visual flow, taking your eye through the photograph.

Many people look, but few see.

Photographs can be made once you remove the labels and see shapes, patterns, lines, colours, etc.