Yesterday I went down to see the partially reopened trail in the south Don River here in Toronto. I decided to shoot my 4mm f/2,8 fisheye for the first time in a while.

Every year the Winter Stations art installation exhibit takes place by the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto.
I went down this morning to take advantage of some bright sunshine, taking a fisheye lens along with my Sony a6100 camera body. I quite liked this piece, and the fisheye lens allowed me to feel as if I was inside it.
I am getting back into hand tinting, but using a digital workflow. Using an iPad, the Procreate app, and an Apple Pencil, I find the process of laying down digital “pigment” and then thinning it out to get the desired level of transparency to be very reminiscent of how I used to do it with darkroom prints and photo oils.
I have a list of photographic ideas and locations I want to try, and on that list is the stairs into the north end of the Glen Stewart Ravine in East Toronto, shot with my 4mm circular fish-eye lens, so that was my outing yesterday morning. Here are two black and white images, along with a faux-infrared treatment.

Given current geopolitical events, so often when I got out with my camera I am looking for distortions, making things look unreal, etc. And when I get home to do the post work I am doing it even more.
Nothing seems normal. Everything feels wrong, like it’s twisting into a dystopian spiral.
This morning I went to the University of Toronto campus, and yet again I feel my images reflect what is looming over us in Canada.
