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August 2025 around my Neighbourhood with a Nikon F2 Photomic. .

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 I had a Nikon F2S, sadly the DP-2 prism head meter died, in the end bought a DP-1 Photomic prsim head so i have another F2 Photomic, a workhorse camera for photojournalists and pool photographers in the early to mid 1970s. It's summer and I have a boatload of Adox CHS 100 II black and white film and usually I process it in Adox FX-39. I wanted see what I get with 510 Pyro which is fast becoming the official developer of The Classic Camera Revival. Staining developers deliver different looking negatives but the end results look super nice. I have not darkroom printed with a negative processed in 510 Pyro, some time this year I'll find out.  Now, a wander around my neighbourhood. It sorta stratches from Blythwood down to Mount Pleasant Cemetary stretching from high rise condos, apartments and offices to cozy neighbourhoods of Sherwood Park, Davisville Village and Chaplin Estates west of Yonge St. It was a hot hazy summer by and large and the photos reflect that.  Camera: N...
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A Day in Beaverton and Durham Region

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After my time with my cousins, I went up to Beaverton. Jo-Anne was up north visiting family so I did a solo trip and visited extended family. Again the cliche, the less than wonderful weather makes for great photographs. Beaverton is the what I would call the almost gateway to cottage country be it continuing north on the Trans Canada Highway to Orillia or head east over to Highway 35 and the Kawarthas. My cousins own the family cottage just south of Beaverton at Cedarhurst Beach, only there's not much of a beach anymore thank you to erosion on the shores of Lake Simcoe.  This Smiths have deep roots in Brock Township and my great uncle Masson was the town doctor in Beaverton in the first half of the 20th century. Glad I got another photograph of his house on Beaverton's main street which also doubled as his surgery.  Beaverton outside of Summer is dead, winter is probably even more dead. What's interesting are the boathouses on the Beaver River which are alternatives for co...
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