September 30, 2023

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Fuji GS645S Professional, Fuji Provia 100F, half-frame, medium (120) No Comments

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It honours the survivors of residential schools and the thousands of children who never returned home. Outside Calgary’s Municipal Building, at the base of the horse statue, sit hundreds of children’s shoes. The shoes are a temporary memorial representing the Indigenous children who died in residential […]

September 28, 2023

Hey Nerds!

Agfa RSX II 50, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Fuji GS645S Professional, half-frame, medium (120) No Comments

I love this clever sign for Fair’s Fair Books.

September 24, 2023

Railroad Tracks #2

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Fuji GS645S Professional, Fuji Velvia 100, half-frame, medium (120) No Comments

These photos are from the first roll of Fuji Velvia 100 that I’ve developed in E-6 chemistry. Every other roll has been cross-processed in C-41, including the last time I posted photos of railroad tracks. While I really like cross-processed Velvia, I like normal Velvia even more!

September 14, 2023

Demon Zaza

Agfa RSX II 50, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Fuji GS645S Professional, half-frame, medium (120) No Comments

I followed the path that led underneath the railroad bridge and discovered Demon Zaza.

September 5, 2023

Harvie Passage Lookout

Alberta, Balda Baldix, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Kodak Ektachrome E100 VS, medium (120), square No Comments

leading up to the entrance to Harvie Passage

I recently purchased two cameras on eBay at a good price and was pleasantly surprised at their better-than-expected condition. Excited to test them out, I loaded them both with film and headed to Harvie Passage: a man-made series of rapids off the Bow River specifically designed for kayaking. I shot both cameras in and around […]

August 24, 2023

Canada Day 2023

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, E-6, Fuji GS645S Professional, Fuji Provia 100F, half-frame, medium (120) No Comments

A beautiful day, fresh film, and a new camera. I’ve been yearning for a good walkabout medium format camera and I think I found it in the Fuji GS645S Professional. Essentially a half-frame camera, the GS645S is no bigger than a Holga. While it has a light meter, everything is fully manual; ISO, aperture, shutter […]

March 2, 2023

The Holga Week That Wasn’t

Alberta, Arista.EDU Ultra 400, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Holga 120 CFN, medium (120), Rodinal, square, toy camera No Comments

I shot these back in October during Holga Week. I had been planning to submit them, but wasn’t too thrilled with the way they turned out.

September 17, 2022

Casablanca Lily #2

C-41, cross-processed, Fuji CDU II, Mamiya C220, medium (120), square No Comments

I shot these photos on Fuji CDU II that I purchased from Northern Film Lab on eBay. I picked up 3 rolls in 120, however, the film was cut down from wider 70mm film stock and therefore has perforations along one side. Fuji CDU II is duplicating film and is meant to be shot at […]

July 21, 2022

Damaged Headstones #2

Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Holga B&W 400, Lomography Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter, medium (120), square No Comments

There are many damaged headstones throughout Union Cemetery. Sandstone was quite often used in Calgary in the early 20th century until they discovered it didn’t stand up to the climate very well. But this is the first (and only) time I have come across a wooden cross. The cross was broken in three pieces with […]

July 14, 2022

Grassi Lakes #2

Alberta, Canada, Kodak Ektachrome 100 EPN, Lomography Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter, medium (120), multiple exposure, panorama No Comments

This 6×12 panorama was an accidental double-exposure. At first glance it looks like an image of trees are layered over the sky, but it’s not as simple as that. Those trees belong to the scene on the left of a group of rock climbers, while the mountains and the lake in the center and to […]

July 7, 2022

Self-Portrait Challenge #4: Reflection

Kodak Ektar 100, Mamiya C220, medium (120), Self-Portrait Challenge, square No Comments

Here is another photo from my Self-Portrait Challenge. The theme for this one was reflection. The photo turned out better than I had anticipated. That being said, I think that it could do with an improvement. Conceptually, if I had to take this photo again, I think I would have some friends pretend to be […]

June 27, 2022

At Home #2

Lomography Color 400, Mamiya C220, medium (120), square No Comments

My wife has since redecorated and our bedroom looks nothing like it did in this first photo taken before I met her.

April 28, 2022

A Single Holga Photo

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Holga 120 CFN, Lomography Redscale XR 50-200, medium (120), redscale, square, toy camera No Comments

2013 Calgary Flood damage in Fish Creek Park

This is from a photo walk I took through Fish Creek Park the year after the 2013 flood. I went to see the damage from the flood once the park had re-opened and was deemed safe again for the public. I had a few cameras with me that day, but I only snapped this one […]

April 11, 2022

Eau Claire

Alberta, C-41, Calgary, Canada, Kodak Six-20 Model C, light leaks, Lomography F² 400, medium (120) 2 Comments

I shot these photos in Eau Claire (downtown Calgary) along the river. It’s pretty clear that my Kodak Six-20 Model C has some light leaks. I’m not sure where the leaks originated since I had the camera taped up and my examination of the bellows when I got the camera didn’t reveal any pin prick […]

March 28, 2022

Casablanca Lily

Agfa Optima 200, C-41, Mamiya C220, medium (120), square No Comments

These are Casablanca Lilies and they are a varietal of the oriental lily. A few months ago I decided that I wanted to try my hand at photographing flowers. I bought a bouquet of lilies at the supermarket, grabbed a vase and some decorative black rocks, and arranged them all together. Then I sat back […]

February 10, 2022

Self-Portrait Challenge #3: Formal

black & white, Fuji Neopan Acros 100, Mamiya C220, medium (120), Self-Portrait Challenge, square 2 Comments

I took this self-portrait as part of my Self-Portrait Challenge a few years ago. The idea behind the challenge was to take a series of creative self-portraits that would push my creativity and skills as a photographer. It isn’t easy to be both photographer and subject when you are using a manual focus camera. Unfortunately, […]

December 30, 2021

A Winter Day

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Holga 120 CFN, light leaks, Lomography Color 800, medium (120), square, toy camera No Comments

One of the things I love about Calgary is that some days, when the weather is right, you can see the Rocky Mountains looming large in the west. You can see them on the horizon of the first two photos.

November 22, 2021

The Bel-Aire ‘Special’

Alberta, Bel-Aire 'Special', black & white, Calgary, camera modification, Canada, Fuji Neopan Acros 100, medium (120), square, Xtol No Comments

I shot these photos using the Bel-Aire ‘Special’, which is the new name I have given to my Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter modified to accept a 100mm Anastigmat Special lens mounted in a Compur Rapid shutter. After my successful attempt to shoot Instax Wide with the new lens and shutter, I took a trip to […]

September 27, 2021

Tractors

Alberta, black & white, Canada, Kodak Tri-X 400, Mamiya C220, medium (120), square No Comments

I shot these tractors 5 years ago at the Coyote Flats Pioneer Village. They easily have over 100 tractors and I think I spent most of my time with just these three, ha ha.

September 20, 2021

The Self-Portrait Challenge

Kodak Ektar 100, Mamiya C220, medium (120), Self-Portrait Challenge, square No Comments

From time to time, I will take self-portraits. Often it’s because I have no idea of what to photograph. I’m easily bored of photographing the same subjects and locations over and over again. There are only so many times that I can visit the same places and vary the point of view or use a […]

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