Welcome to Spring for real this time. We had a cold snap earlier this week and Southern Ontarians let out a collective groan with the 48 hour return of wind-chill and flurries. Thankfully that is out of the system and we're back on track with spring.

I went really old school and shot with the older of two Nikon F's I own with Kodak Plus X 125 processed in D76 1+1 dilution around Old Oakville. I love how the tonality just pops out with this film and I get a nice period feel which is the objective.






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