I love the Beaches District in Toronto; I love Bluffers Park. Then there is Sugar Beach: a sad little boxed in spot, with a great view of a factory, and no shortage of “No Swimming signs.” I’ve shot there a few times as I find it fascinating, at the same time it repulses me.
Both images shot using Nikon F 35mm SLR, 24mm/2.8 Nikkor lens.
Rollei Retro 80S film, developed in Rodinal
Toned in post
This is the last image from my series of images taken at the Beaches in Toronto with my Mamiya RZ67 and red/polarizing filters. The film used for this image was Rollei Retro 80s.
The Beaches / Red Filter theme continues, with this image of rocks at the Beaches.
Mamiya RZ67, 127mm Mamiya lens, with red filter
Rollei RPX25 film
.. and the CN tower creeping in on the right.
Mamiya RZ67, 127mm Mamiya lens with red and polarizing filters
Rollei RPX 25 film
There are a number of pairs of these chairs at The Beaches in Toronto. I recently posted an image of a pair of chairs in colour; today it’s black and white, taken Sunday morning with my Mamiya RZ67, Rollei RPX25 film and the combination of red and polarizing filters to darken the sky.
I was down at the Beaches again this morning; my Hasselblad is in the shop, so out came the Mamiya RZ67 (Medium format, 6cm x 7cm negative size). I was shooting Rollei RPX25, with a combination of red and polarizing filters to darken the sky, so I was shooting at an effective speed of EI 1, meaning that even on a bright sunny day the exposures were in the range of half a second to one second in length. I love the blurring effect on water, especially crashing water in this morning’s lively breeze. It seems ghostly to me.
I took this image at the recent Buskerfest in Toronto. Originally shot in colour, I like it better as black and white, so the image is more about the child’s expression of excitement, as opposed to the vivid yellow of the character’s dress in the original colour version.
Nikon F4S, 75-150 Nikon Series E lens
Fujicolor 200 converted to black and white
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum was always controversial: a lot of people absolutely hated the look of this addition to a more traditional structure. From a photographic point of view though it offers a lot of possibilities. In this image (from the Open Streets event last weekend) I used my Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide Heliar lens. This lens is among the wider in the 35mm format, and I like what it does with the already dramatic angles of this structure.
Canon P Rangefinder, Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide-Heliar
JCH StreetPan 400 film, developed in Legacy Pro EcoPro developer
On a clear evening at the Beaches, the waters of Lake Ontario take on a lovely intense blue shade, quite unlike the colour in the morning or during the rest of the day. The only changes to this image in post were contrast and an exposure level adjustment
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Sonnar lens
Kodak Portra 400 film
Another image from my walk at the Beaches last Thursday evening. Thinning crowds and empty spaces.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Zeiss Sonnar lens
Kodak Portra 400
My Third Eye 