Last Sunday I was out shooting wth my friend Ori in Ashbridges Bay. He had his 4×5, and I was shooting with my Mamiya RZ67. For a few minutes the water was calm enough for clear reflections, then a breeze came up and the moment was gone.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm/4.5 lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
I love this old building on Queen Street East in Toronto, near the River St. bridge. Glass and steel just doesn’t do it for me the way an old building like this does.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 400 film developed in Ilfosol 3
Toned in post
OK, so I am the last person on earth to start watching Game of Thrones (hey, photography takes up a lot of time!) so when I was at the old Eastern Avenue Bridge last weekend, a couple of times some of the structure reminded me of coats of arms.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
I recently went back to the remnants of the old Eastern Avenue bridge in the lower Don Valley. The intersecting jumble of old steel caught my eye.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
OK, this is the angle that everyone shoots in BCE place. What I tried to do is play with the contrast to make it about light and shadow, as much as about architecture.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
Still avoiding the cliche image 🙂 This is looking in the opposite direction.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
The interior of BCE Place in downtown Toronto is photographed so often that it is difficult to avoid the cliched images that have been taken so often. In this image I tried changing the angle to get the building within the building.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
llford HP5+ film developed in Ilfosol 3
There are certain spots I am drawn to repeatedly, and this location in High Park is one of them, especially off-season before plants have really started growing again.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm DistagonÂ
Rollei Retro 80S film
Last weekend I got together with friends Sean and Ori for some large format shooting at the unused rail bridge in the lower Don Valley in Toronto. I was shooting my Speed Graphic 4×5, with a 127mm/4.7 Kodak Ektar lens, using Fomapan 100 film.
Here’s a image of my friend Sean, setting up an shot with his 4×5 view camera, taken with my Olympus XA 35mm.
And finally a shot of me! (Image taken by Sean Patenaude with his Nikon, used with permission)
One more railway themed image: a detail of graffiti on the derelict track.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film, developed in Rodinal.
Toning/Vignette in post
My Third Eye 