The Continuing Bella Lake Chronicles.

I never tire photographing Billie Bear and Bella Lake, at first glance it looks the same but there are differences from year to year, weather, the pace of the leaves changing, and this year I found a beach a half hour walk up from the resort. I shot all this in black and white with Ilford HP5 400, if Kodak Portra 400 is the Swiss Army knife of colour film, this is the black and white equivelant.

What I find interesting is Ilford Photo is hinting at a new product introduction for next year. People are speculating like crazy, everything from an IR film to a Panatomic X clone, my prediction is the re-introduction of a 400 ISO colour film. Ilford already makes a black and white C-41 film with XP2, they already have the ability to make it, they also used to make a colour film decades ago. Even though Ilford has positioned themselves the black and white photography experts, introducing a 400 ISO C-41 Colour film will give people a third choice other than Kodak and Fujifilm. We'll see.

I can't wait to go back up to Billie Bear next year, those four days are not long enough.

Camera: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor lenses.
Film: Ilford HP5, HC110 B.