These two images are from last weekend GAS meet-up / Photowalk in Hamilton ON. As the group strolled around, we came upon this little enclave downtown. A lovely surprise location! In the first image walk leader Alex is taking a peek. The second image is a view inside the garden.
Kodak Medalist, 100mm/3.5 Ektar lens
Ilford HP5+ film respooled for 620, developed in Ilfosol 3
Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder,
15mm/4.5 Superwide Heliar lens
Polypan F film @ E.I. 50 developed in Ilfosol 3
Not far from our family home is a lawn bowling club that Janice and I often pass by during evening walks. When open it is full of bowlers, but right now it is quiet in the pre-season, with only the long evening shadows.
Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder,
15mm SuperWide Heliar lens
Polypan F film @ EI 50, developed in Ilfosol 3
Yesterday the Classic Camera Revival Podcast (of which I am one of hosts) held a film photography meet-up in Hamilton, Ontario. G.A.S. stands for “Gear Acquisition Syndrome” the desire for film shooters to always get one more piece of gear. 🙂 I took this portrait of one of the attendees with my Kodak Medalist 620 camera, using respooled Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3.
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
A detail of a fountain inside BCE Place.
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
Slow speed films such as Rollei RPX 25 are contrasty by nature and don’t take kindly to overexposure, and in today’s image I totally blew it. After some work on the scan in post though I can up with this result and I find the effect interesting, although I suppose it could just be considered a post-hoc rationalization.
My Third Eye 