Shot on the ground, August 2026

Standing in Meaford

Not photographs of the town. The town, with you in the middle of it, able to turn around. Drag any of them.

The harbour

Standing on the breakwater rocks, marina on one side, open bay on the other.

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Insta360 X5, August 4, 2026. Photograph by Max Greenaway.

Out on the breakwater

Further out along the rocks, with the town behind you.

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Insta360 X5, August 4, 2026. Photograph by Max Greenaway.

Beautiful Joe Park

On the trail above the Bighead River, August.

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The park is named after a real dog. Beautiful Joe lived in Meaford, was rescued by a local family after being badly treated, and became the subject of Margaret Marshall Saunders' 1893 novel. His grave was found on this land and marked with a cairn built from stones out of the river. It has been parkland since 1963.

Insta360 X5, August 2, 2026. Photograph by Max Greenaway.

Low water over the stones

Standing on the river bed in high summer, houses on the far bank.

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Which river this is has not been confirmed, so it is not named. It was called the Beaver River on the file it arrived in, and that same file naming turned out to be wrong about Beautiful Joe Park, so the name is being left off until somebody who was there is sure. The houses and the placed stone on the far bank say it runs through a settled place, which fits both the Bighead and the Beaver.

Insta360 X5, August 2, 2026. Photograph by Max Greenaway.

On the Nikon

Shot on one day in August. Press one and it plays, leave it alone and it stays a photograph.

A white vessel sits alongside the stone breakwater at Meaford harbour, with the masts of moored sailboats crowded behind it and flat blue water in front. Clear summer sky. — The harbourA vessel at the breakwater, marina behind.

A working tug moves slowly past the end of the pier at dusk, silhouetted against a pale sky. The green pier light is lit on the right and the water is still and grey. — Workboat at duskComing in past the pier light, the light going.

Open water of Georgian Bay under a clear sky, shallow and green near the camera, running out to a low wooded headland on the horizon. — Georgian BayLooking out along the shore to the headland.

The rock armour of the Meaford shoreline curves away from the camera, with the treeline and rooftops of the town behind it and the bay on the other side. — The shorelineAlong the rocks, town behind the trees.

The wide stone bed of a river in high summer, water running shallow between pale rounded stones, dense green trees closing in on both banks. — Low water over the stonesA river running shallow in high summer, not yet confirmed which one.

Every one of these is loaded only when you scroll to it, because they are a few megabytes each and nobody should pay for four to look at one. The bottom of a 360 photograph is always the hand holding the camera, so these start you facing the horizon and will not let you look all the way down.