January 10, 2022

Sarah’s Guitar Fund

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon EOS 3, Kodak Tri-X 400, Xtol No Comments

I shot this a while back when Sarah was saving up for a guitar. At the time, I thought that maybe I should make my own jar and call it ‘Dan’s Camera Fund’. But then I thought that’s what my pay cheque is called!

January 7, 2022

Zoo Animals #2

35mm, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canon EOS 3, Kodak Hawkeye Traffic Surveillance Color 400 No Comments

Here are more animals from the Calgary Zoo, this time shot on Kodak Hawkeye Traffic Surveillance Color 400 film. The last photo is of the Transalta Rainforest building at the zoo.

January 4, 2022

More Detritus from the Flood

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon Rebel 2000, Orwo NP22 125 No Comments

2013 Calgary flood detritus in Fish Creek Park

These photos depict more of the debris and detritus left behind by the 2013 flood in Calgary. I shot these while testing a roll of Orwo NP22 film. For a roll of film that expired in 1993, it has aged fairly well. It’s box speed is 125 ISO, but I shot these at 64 ISO […]

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.

December 13, 2021

First Impressions of the Pentax Spotmatic SP II

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Camera Reviews, Canada, Fuji Neopan Acros 100, Pentax Spotmatic SP II, Xtol No Comments

I bought the Pentax Spotmatic SP II on a whim back in May. It has some good reviews online and since I already own many M42 lenses, including a 50mm f/1.4 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar, I decided to buy it. My SP II is in great condition. Cosmetically, there are some very minor scratches but no dings. […]

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.

November 26, 2021

Field of Crosses

35mm, Agfa APX 400, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon EOS 3, Xtol No Comments

Every November, just before Remembrance Day, thousands of white crosses are placed row on row along Memorial Drive. This is the Field of Crosses, an annual memorial honouring the 3500 men and women from southern Alberta who gave their lives in service to Canada, many during the world wars. I shot these on a roll […]

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 […]

November 4, 2021

Detritus from the Flood

35mm, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canon Rebel 2000, Rollei Digibase CN 200 Pro No Comments

In 2013, Calgary suffered its second flood in 8 years. The Bow & Elbow Rivers overflowed their banks and flooded much of the city. Downtown was hit particularly hard. These photos are from further downstream at Fish Creek Park many months later. Some of the detritus from the flood is still visible in a few […]

November 1, 2021

Early Morning at The Zoo

35mm, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canon EOS 3, Fuji Velvia 50 No Comments

These were shot one early morning at the Calgary Zoo on Fuji Velvia 50. I bought a 100 ft bulk roll of expired Fuji Velvia 50 on eBay for cheap. The seller owned two rolls, and when he opened one and shot some photos with it, he found that the film had color shifted and […]

October 28, 2021

Art Found Under Bridges

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Minolta XG-M, Mr. Zhu 100, Xtol No Comments

I love it when I find art around the city in places where it has no reason to belong other than just for the sake of art itself. These photos were all taken on a walk through Fish Creek Park.

October 25, 2021

Pearce Estate Park

35mm, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canon Rebel 2000, Tudor Colour 200 No Comments

About 6 years ago, I acquired a Sigma 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens and attempted to use it to photograph birds at Pearce Estate Park. Shooting chickadees with the lens at 200-300mm without a tripod was quite challenging. The little chickadee rarely stayed still. He kept flitting about and it was hard for me to keep […]

October 14, 2021

Bow Valley Ranch

35mm, Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canon Rebel 2000, Perutz Primera 100 No Comments

This is Bow Valley Ranch in Fish Creek Park. Once the residence of William Roper Hull, who commissioned this two-story gable-roofed mansion in 1896, it is now a restaurant in Fish Creek Park. The other wooden building is Annie’s Cafe which was once the farmhouse of ranch foreman Billy Banister and his eponymous wife Annie. […]

October 7, 2021

Downtown Model Shoot #2

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon EOS 3, Kodak Tri-X 400 No Comments

young woman on a bicycle at a chocolatier

These photos are from a photography workshop I took 5 years ago. We spent a morning with a few amateur models, wandering around downtown and snapping photos in various locations. These were shot in front of Coppeneur Chocolatier.

September 30, 2021

Modifying the Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter

Alberta, Bel-Aire 'Special', Calgary, camera modification, Canada, Fuji Instax Wide, instant, Lomography Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter No Comments

the Bel-Aire 'Special' camera with Instant Back

Over the years, I have steadily come to look upon my Lomography Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter camera with growing disappointment. My disenchantment with the Belair rests upon two chief complaints: The plastic lenses are terrible. They are quite soft, especially along the edges, and the photos are often out of focus—rarely in a good way. […]

August 23, 2021

Shooting Mr. Zhu 100

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Minolta XG-M, Mr. Zhu 100, Xtol No Comments

I picked up this mysterious film, Mr. Zhu 100, on eBay. It’s so mysterious that the seller himself didn’t even know much about it, including its name. So, in the absence of a name, he chose to name it after his Hong Kong shipping partner, Mr. Zhu. Intrigued by a new rare film, especially one […]

August 20, 2021

Shooting Kodak HCP 5369

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, Canada, Canon Rebel 2000, Kodak HCP 5369, Xtol No Comments

Environmental Education Centre at Ralph Klein Park in Calgary, Canada

I shot these photos on Kodak HCP 5369, which I picked up from Labeauratoire. It was a bright sunny day and so I shot most of these at the recommended ISO 20, while a few were shot at ISO 16. The bright sunshine meant that I was able to shoot every photo at f/11 for […]

April 29, 2021

JCH Street Panoramas

35mm, Alberta, black & white, Calgary, camera modification, Canada, JCH Street Pan 400, Lomography Belair X 6-12 Jetsetter, panorama, pinhole, Rodinal No Comments

I shot these pinhole panoramas on JCH Street Pan 400 using a homemade pinhole lens I mounted on my Belair Jetsetter for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2020.

April 25, 2021

Pinhole Photography with Instax

Alberta, Calgary, camera modification, Canada, Fuji Instax Mini, instant, Mamiya C220, pinhole No Comments

pinhole photo using Fuji Instax Mini film

Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day! While I celebrate by shooting some pinhole photos later today, I thought I would share some of the photos I took on last year’s Pinhole Photography Day. Around the time last year when I was experimenting with shooting Instax Mini film in my Mamiya C220, I was also building […]

March 22, 2021

Ten Rolls of JCH Street Pan

Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Fuji Instax Mini, instant, Lomography Diana F+, toy camera No Comments

A few years ago, when I first heard that Bellamy Hunt of Japan Camera Hunter would be launching a new film, I had to place an advance order. I shot this the day I finally received my ten rolls of brand new JCH Street Pan.

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