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March on a Roll of Ilford FP4

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 March in Toronto is an all over the place month weather wise. We started off with snow banks slowly melting and by the end of the roll just over a week in, we got Fool's Spring with temperatures you usually see in early May, it was a nice respite.  I loaded up my Nikon F90X with a Nikon AF-D 28-105 zoom lens which is a great all 'rounder and ran with Ilford FP4, a film one overlooks because it's an old faithful emulsion. Damn, so nice, I processed in Ilfotec HC 1+31 for eight minutes, nothing exotic, the negatives look super crisp and easy to scan.  In the end, the roll started in late winter, and ended in Fool's Spring just before second winter hit.  Camera: F90X, Nikon AF-D 28-105 F3.5-4.5 Zoom Lens.  Film: Ilford FP4 125, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 
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Winter Stations in the Beaches 2026 Edition

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 The Beaches Winter Stations Installation is an annual event where teams from different arcitecture schools and design firms design shelters around, or, near by lifeguard chairs at Woodbine Beach. I usually photograph them near the end of the month around March Break, this time around at the beginning of the month, usually mother nature and people aren't kind to the installations.  This is also another opportunity to shoot with the Leica R6, the first time around was Ilford HP5 400, and photographing the Beaches ice build up which is all gone by the end of February/early March. The first time around I used the spot metering feature, on this roll I used Large Field Averaging which was Leica's answer to I guess Matrix metering or perhaps closer to Minolta's CLC metering.  I also shot with Lomo Colour 400 C-41 a chance to push Large Field Averaging metering along with seeing how prime Leica R glass played with colour film. The skies were mixed being more cloudy than sunny wh...
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