About Alicia

Freelance photographer. Toronto skyline specialist. Person who sets alarms for 4 a.m. without complaint.

I grew up in Lisbon, studied visual communication in London, and moved to Toronto in 2020 because a stock agency told me the skyline was "under-shot." They weren't wrong. Within a year the tower became my primary subject — not by design, but because the light kept pulling me back.

Six years later I have more frames of that 553-metre needle than any reasonable person should. My work has appeared in travel editorials, airline magazines, real estate marketing, and the kind of corporate presentations where someone needs a dramatic skyline behind a pie chart. I shoot for several stock agencies and take direct commissions for architectural and cityscape work.

The cameras

Current bodies: a Sony A7R V for the serious work and a Fuji X-T5 for days when I want to travel light. Previous bodies that earned their keep: a Canon 5D Mark IV (sold after four years of hard service) and a Nikon D750 that fell into Lake Ontario from a slippery pier. We don't talk about the D750.

Lenses I use most for tower work: Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM for wide environmental shots, Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM for compressed skyline frames, and a Tamron 70–180mm f/2.8 for the Polson Pier and Humber Bay long shots. For the deck interior, a 35mm f/1.4 handles the low light and tight spaces.

Why this site

I kept sending friends the same advice by text: which ferry to take, what time slot to book, where to stand with a camera. Eventually I wrote it all down. This is that document, turned into a website because I got tired of copying and pasting.

346 Metres is not a commercial project. I don't sell anything here — no prints, no presets, no workshops, no tickets. It's a photographer's notebook that happens to be public.

If you want to reach me, the contact page is here. I'm always glad to hear from other photographers, especially if you've found a new angle on the tower that I haven't tried yet.