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NLP 2025 Part Three

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 We lingered a bit at the top of the Oxtongue River falls, I wnt to town with the water relections, then went back to Billie Bear where we're staying. This one of my my happy places, Billie Bear Resort has a lot of history beginning as a Fishing camp and lodge. Before it's current incarnation the previous owner had a small fleet of aircraft, a helicopter which was more a personal toy and float plane, my guess a few  De Haviland Beavers for flying guests to their remote fishing spots.  That all changed in the 1990s when Billie Bear got sold and went from fishing camp to cottage resort.  I love Billie Bear, it's not Deerhurst and not meant to be, it's real Muskoka, not show biz Muskoka and long may it remain as such.  Got a chance to try out the Nikkor AIS 180 F2.8 ED lens on two shots, this is a nice lens, but it's a heavy bit of glass. Something I would think twice to take on an extended hike. If anything next year I'm going to take the AIS 80-200 F4 Zoom lens a...
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NLP 2025 Part Two

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  I ran with a two camera set up on this NLP trip, a Nikon F4 and FM2n, and a selection of lenses including the Nikkor AIS ED 180 F2.8 lens, not used on this particular roll. Film wise throughout the full trip I used Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D motion picture stock which was ECN2 processed at Graination Lab in Toronto. Had intentions of shooting black and white but didn't. Next year might be an all black and white extravaganza.  My equipment choice of course came to bite me in the ass on the hike in Limberlost Forest, more on that when we get there. For now we started by arriving at Billie Bear Resort and headed  Ragged Falls on the Oxtongue River, just outside of Algonquin Park in the morning. I was here once before with the group back in 2013 (gulp, that long ago?).  The skies threatening rain for most of the day, we lucked out.  Part of me wonders if I should have just run with the FM2n and left the F4 home, but I wanted the matrix metering..... Camera: N...
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NLP 2025 Part One.

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 No Light Pollution or NLP is a long running photography retreat that stemmed from Sheridan College's continuing education photography certificate and a group of former Oakville Camera Club members. I got invited to go back in 2013 and have been coming up since. I invited Jo-Anne up in 2022 and the rest is history.  Now living in Toronto ironically its a lot easier to leave, a drive up the 404 to the end, cut over to Lakeridge Road and continue north to Beaverton where the true start point begins. We have breakfast at the Shortiss Cafe/Bar and then drive east to Highway 35 and head north from there. The first rest stop was in Minden where Jo Anne and I had lunch at Boshkung Brewing and an ice cream at the local Kawartha Lakes Dairy. The second rest stop was at in Dorset, and I'm still doing my best to try and capture Robinson's General Store on film.  Weather wise was all over the place, the rig of choice was my Nikon F4 and a collection of lenses. I chose to shoot colour...
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