June 10, 2023

Film Stash

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Lomography Color 800 No Comments

This is the film stash I took with me on my trip to France in 2015. Also pictured, are two of the three cameras I brought with me: my Canon Rebel 2000 and my Ultra Wide & Slim. I used the third camera, my Canonet QL17 Giii, to snap this photo.

April 4, 2023

Wandering Around Blenheim, NZ

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Kodak Ektar 100, New Zealand No Comments

Sarah and I wandered around Blenheim one Sunday afternoon. It was very quiet with almost no one around when I shot these photos.

February 9, 2023

Walking in Newmarket

35mm, black & white, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, FPP B&W 100, New Zealand No Comments

I snapped this photo of an elderly couple walking in Newmarket (a suburb of Auckland) on FPP B&W 100 film, which is really just rebranded Orwo UN54.

February 3, 2023

Auckland

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Kodak Gold 200, New Zealand No Comments

These photos of Auckland were taken in 2018 as Sarah and I walked through downtown and along the waterfront. The big green owl (Ruru Kakotea) is from The Big Hoot, a fundraiser for the Child Cancer Foundation. That year, many painted owls could be found all around Auckland.

September 3, 2022

On the Fence

35mm, Agfa HDC 200, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, New Zealand 2 Comments

I was taking photos around Sarah’s parents’ farm when she decided to walk on the fence (which overlooks a steep 50m (150ft) drop. I was grateful this photo turned out because I noticed my QL17 wasn’t giving me accurate meter readings in the fading evening light. I bracketed most of my shots, but I only […]

June 30, 2022

Geese on Ice

35mm, Alberta, C-41, Calgary, Canada, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 200 No Comments

The Bow River often freezes over during winter. While it is not unusual to see geese on the ice, I wasn’t expecting to find an overturned shopping cart that looked like it had been thrown from the bridge.

May 2, 2022

Ho Chi Minh City

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Kodak Portra 400, Vietnam No Comments

These photos are from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) in Vietnam. While touring Vietnam, I had a day off to explore on my own and shoot some photographs. These photos feature the Independence Palace (aka Reunification Palace) and its front gate (where in 1975, a tank of the North Vietnamese Army bulldozed into it, […]

April 21, 2022

Royal Palace #2

35mm, black & white, Cambodia, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Fuji Neopan Acros 100 No Comments

Here are some more photos from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. What I most remember about that day is that it was incredibly bright and I didn’t have a wide enough lens to capture everything I wanted in the frame.

April 18, 2022

Trio

35mm, Alberta, C-41, Calgary, Canada, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 200 No Comments

On the west side of the new Calgary Public Library building are two of three kinetic sculptures that move back and forth like a drinking birds. This art installation is called Trio and was designed and built by artist Christian Moeller.

April 14, 2022

East Village

35mm, Alberta, C-41, Calgary, Canada, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 200 No Comments

These photos are from a photowalk I took recently around the East Village. This part of downtown has undergone a lot of redevelopment over the last few years and I thought it was time to take a camera and go exploring.

February 14, 2022

Sliver

35mm, black & white, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, FPP B&W 100, New Zealand No Comments

The name of this sculpture is Sliver. It was created by Virginia King and is a symbol of time. Sarah and I were walking in Newmarket (a suburb of Auckland) when we came upon the sculpture and I knew I had to photograph it.

December 6, 2021

Around Olympic Plaza

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, JCH Street Pan 400 No Comments

These photos were shot in and around Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary.

October 18, 2021

Picton Harbour

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, light leaks, Lomography Cine400 Tungsten, New Zealand No Comments

These were shot in Picton harbour, on the north coast of New Zealand’s South Island, as Sarah and I waited to go on a cruise of Queen Charlotte Sound.

October 4, 2021

Wandering Around Auckland

35mm, black & white, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Eastman Double-X 5222 B&W 200, New Zealand No Comments

These are from my second trip to New Zealand. Sarah and I spent a day wandering around Auckland’s waterfront. I remember we had some amazing ice cream at Island Gelato in the Ferry Building.

August 26, 2021

Roots

35mm, Adox Color Implosion 100, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Vietnam No Comments

These are the roots of a tree outside the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

May 14, 2021

Scooters

35mm, black & white, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Vietnam No Comments

I photographed these scooters in Hoi An, Vietnam.

March 18, 2021

Looking Down on Auckland

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Kodak Gold 200, New Zealand No Comments

I shot these from the balcony of my hotel on my first visit to Auckland. As I was enjoying the view one morning, I started to notice all the interesting things happening below me and had to snap a few photos.

March 1, 2021

Wintergardens #2

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Kodak Gold 200, New Zealand No Comments

Wintergardens, Auckland Domain, Auckland, NZ

These photos were taken at the Wintergardens in Auckland, NZ. Sarah and I spent a quiet afternoon wandering around the Wintergardens and Auckland Domain. It was an absolutely beautiful and incredibly hot day and I remember we enjoyed an ice cream in the shade of a tree.

February 25, 2021

Flock of Sheep

35mm, black & white, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, New Zealand, Svema Foto 200 No Comments

These two photos of a flock of sheep were taken on Sarah’s parents’ farm. They have since sold the farm. I’m not sure what happened to the sheep.

February 11, 2021

Motuara Island Part 2

35mm, Canon Canonet QL17 Giii, Lomography Color 400, New Zealand No Comments

These are the last of my photos from my exploration of New Zealand’s Queen Charlotte Sound by air, sea and land. Motuara Island is home to the Little penguin and there are many man-made nesting boxes scattered throughout the island for their use. Each nesting box has a lid that you can flip open to […]

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