In Taylor Creek Park there is a lot of interesting fallen wood, almost like driftwood writ large, but there is no lake or ocean around. This log has caught my eye on more than one occasion.
Kiev IIIa, Jupiter 12 35mm/2.8 lens,
Svema Foto 200 film developed in Pyrocat-HD,
1+1+100 fo 16 minutes @ 20 C
I recently got a Jupiter 12 35mm/2.8 lens. A copy of the classic pre-WW II Carl Zeiss Biogon I picked it up inexpensively planning to use it on my Contax IIIa body, but after I bought it I found out the lens was not compatible, so in order to use the lens I needed to get a Kiev body. The Kiev was a Ukrainian-built copy of the Contax body. but with the lens comparability. Luckily Kiev bodies are not expensive either. Together they make an impressive combination; I love the look of this lens in this test roll I finished yesterday in Taylor Creek Park!!
Kiev IIIa, Jupiter 12 35mm/2.8 lens,
Svema Foto 200 film developed in Pyrocat-HD,
1+1+100 fo 16 minutes @ 20 C
Another image from the old railway station near Yonge/Summerhill in Toronto. I love what the 15mm lens does for scenes like this!
Leica IIIa, Voigtlander Helios 15mm/4.5 lens,
Tri-X developed in Pyrocat-HD 1+1+100 for 16 minutes @ 20 C
Still getting used to the Voigtlander Helios 15mm f4.5 Superwide angle lens, shot here with my 1930’s vintage Leica IIIa 35mm rangefinder body. I love what it does with the entrance an old train station (now a liquor store) near Yonge and Summerhill in Toronto, taken on a bitterly cold Saturday morning recently.
Leica IIIa, Voigtlander Helios 15mm/4.5 lens
Tri-X, developed in Pyrocat HD 1+1+100, 16 minutes @ 20 C
An abandoned shopping cart is not that uncommon a sight in a large city, but I liked what the combination of the morning sunshine and the extreme wide-angle perspective did to it.
Leica IIIa, Voigtlander Helio 15mm/4.5 lens,
Tri-X developed in Pyrocat-HD 1+1+100 for 16 minutes @ 20 C
This image of a lonely tree stump was taken in Taylor Creek Park, using a Voigtlander Bessa L 35mm camera and 15mm/4.5 Heliar super wide angle lens. I loved the textures at this spot!.
Bessa L, 15mm/4.5 Voigtlander Heliar, Svema Foto 200 film
developed in Pyrocat HD 1+1+100, 15.5 minutes @ 20 C
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, another large space marked by a solitary individual.
Voigtlander Bessa L 35mm camera, 21mm/4 Voigtlander Color Skopar lens
Tri-X at Box speed, developed in Pyrocat 1+1+100, 15 min. @ 20 C
I love this space inside the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario)
Voigtlander Bessa L 35mm camera,
21mm/4 Voigtlander 21mm/4 Color Skopar lens
Tri-X at box speed, developed in Pyrocat-HD developer
1+1+100 for 15 minutes @ 20 C
In my mind, there aren’t many things as bleak as modern architecture on a cold day, a space normally full of people, empty except for one figure, back turned, anonymous.
Voigtlander Bessa R, 50mm/2 Jupiter 8 lens
Trix-X @ EI 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD 1+1+100 15 minutes @ 20 C
I have shot this scene before (an alley in Toronto’s Kensington Market), but it has a very different look in black and white, with a very wide angle lens.
Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder, 21mm/4 Voigtlander Color Skopar lens
Trix-X @ EI 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD 1+1+100 15 minutes @ 20 C
My Third Eye 