Bill Smith's Photography

 It hit all of us, the weekend went by too quick and it's time to go home, For Jo-Anne and I, the trip down Highway 35 and then the 404 to Toronto. The weekend went by especially fast for me because of the stomach bug I was recovering from.  The two takeaways this weekend, one, I have to shoot with my Leica M4-2 a lot more often, and yes it's coming back up with me next year. Two, the F100, is pretty much downright near perfect. For shooting on the way home, the M4-2 was the perfect camera. More compact than the autofocus beast, and I ran with just one lens, the Light Lens Lab 8- Element 35 F2 "Summicron" lens, a remake of the original 1960s vintage 35 F2 Summicron considered one of the best of the series and these days not cheap if you want to buy one.  I wanted to shoot colour for the ride home but at the last minute ran with Eastman Double X, a wise choice in hindsight.  One year, I shold do an all black and white NLP weekend.  Camera: Leica M4-2, Light Lens Lab 8

 Jo-Anne and peeled off from the group after lunch Saturday and went for a hike in Limberlost Nature Preserve, one of my favourite happy places. We chose a shorter hike around Clear and Turtle Lakes but the network is designed as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" and scale up to a really long hike if you wanted to. We both are introverts by nature and need some downtime from the crowd.  I also had a chance to shoot with my Nikon AF-D 20 F2.8 prime lens, it's almost an essential for landscape photography as you can tell with the last few images. The F100 was the perfect camera to roll with while hiking, easy to use and you still have the sophisticated matrix metering system sort of 80% of an F5 without the heavy chassis.  As you can tell we were two weeks early for fall colours in the Northern Muskokas and Algonquin Highlands. You roll with what you have and enjoy the early fall day.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 processedy by