This blog entry features photos with soft and hard lighting from the Plateau Mont-Royal. The Plateau is known for its progressive, trendy, and artistic character. I tried to show that character as much as I could in these photos.
Soft lighting A pedestrian on Mont-Royal Avenue looks at a screen held by an activist for the international animal-rights/vegan group, Anonymous for the Voiceless, on the evening of September 27, 2025.Hard lighting A monument to Quebec poet Louis-Octave Crémazie in Square Saint-Louis in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Photo taken in the afternoon of September 28, 2025.Soft lighting The Olympic Stadium can be seen in the background as crowds of pedestrians walk down Mont-Royal Avenue in the Plateau Mont-Royal on the evening of September 27, 2025. With 101,054 residents, the Plateau is the most densely populated borough in Canada, according to Google Arts & Culture. Hard lighting Pro-Palestine Protesters gather in front of Mont-Royal metro station in the Plateau Mont-Royal during the afternoon of September 28, 2025.Soft lighting Mural on the side of Baguette & Brochette restaurant in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Photo taken on the evening of September 28, 2025.Soft lighting People sit in Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park in the Plateau Mont-Royal on the evening of September 28, 2025.Hard lighting L’Institut Raymond-Dewar (an institute for deaf people) in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Photo taken in the afternoon of September 28, 2025.Soft lighting Mural across the street from Sherbrooke metro station in the Plateau Mont-Royal. Photo taken in the afternoon of September 28, 2025.
