For my third image from Banff, here is a foot bridge. There is some flare, but I don’t mind it. I like the shadow lines 🙂
Rolleiflex 3.5E3, Xenotar lens
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Category: Medium Format
Back to Banff
I have just returned from a two week work trip in Alberta, and I did have one weekend for photography, so it was up to Banff on Saturday. The day was brilliant, clear and cold.
Rolleiflex 3.5E3, 3.5 Xenotar lens
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes
Last Post for 2015
It’s been an interesting year: my photography exhibit and the trip to Scotland were amazing highlights; the back problems not so much. For my last image of the year, I go back to the Beaches for an image created this past summer. Tomorrow it’s January 1st, so in the morning I will be going out somewhere to do some photography, as this has become my New Year’s Day tradition. Happy New Year!
Mamiya RZ67, 90mm lens with red filter and polarizing filter
Rollei Retro 80s film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
Forgotten Film
If you shoot film for long enough, you end up with old exposed rolls of film, and you have no idea what’s on them. I developed such a role this week, and it turns out to be from Thanksgiving, 2014. We were stating in Smith Falls, Ontario, and I went out early one morning down by the canal. It was chilly, and steam was rising from the water as the sun came up.
Rolleiflex 3.5E3, Xenotar lens
FP4+ film developed in Xtol 1+1 for 10 minutes @ 20 C
Fellow Photographer
I had a fun portrait session this past Saturday with fellow Toronto-area photographer Philip Elliot. There is just something about shooting portraits with a Rolleiflex, and the square format. (Film used was Kodak Tri-X, developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C)
The Leaves Are All Gone
and only the skeleton of the forest remains.
Kodak Medalist I, 100mm/3.5 Ektar lens
Kodak TMax 400 film, developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Toned, etc. in post
Winter Paths
I’m happy to announce that the Exultate Chamber Singers have released a new Christmas/winter CD, Winter Paths. As a member of the choir I am doubly proud, as the cover features a photograph of mine, taken a couple of winters back with my Mamiya RZ67 medium format film camera. This is my third album cover 🙂
Physical CD’s will be available shortly, but for now it is available for purchase on iTunes.
Coffee and Portrait
I met up with my friend Jennifer yesterday at a Starbucks here in Toronto, and it marked the first time I have done a portrait shoot inside a busy downtown coffee shop. I was shooting with my Kodak Medalist which does not have the closest focusing lens (but otherwise a great piece of glass). Shooting wide open at f3.5 on Kodak Tmax 400 film, developed in Xtol and post work with Nik Efex.
One More From Todmorden Mills
I decided to post one more from my visit to this great location last Sunday morning. This tree does have a great shape: to me it looks like a hand making a gesture.
Kodak Medalist I, 100mm/3.5 lens. Tri-X respooled for 620,
6×9 neg. developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Medalist at the Mill
Two more from my visit to Todmorden Mills last Saturday Morning, this time shot with my Kodak Medalist, on Respooled Tri-X A bit of fogging on the edges but not affecting the image). I love that morning light!
My Third Eye 