Bill Smith's Photography

  The September walk was a replay of sorts of an earlier photo walk with Toronto Photo Walks back in the Summer. We went counter clockwise heading west, south then East. I ran with the Olympus OM-4Ti because it's just right for photo walks, and I've grown to love the meter on this camera. I ran with Ilford HP5 because I needed a versatile film because of variable light.  Camera: Olympus OM-4Ti, MC Zuiko Lenses.  Film: Ilford HP5 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

On paper this should have been a fun day trip, I wanted to explore northeast of Toronto and Fenlon Falls was within driving distance. I've always driven past the cut off on Highway 35 on my way up to Dwight every year, I was curious.  Fenlon Falls lies within the Kawartha Lakes District between Lindsay and the Haliburtons and is on the Trent Severin Canal system connecting Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay. The drive up was uneventful, we got to Fenlon Falls late morning and started exploring.  Lunchtime came around and Jo-Anne and I went to Fenlon Falls Brewery for lunch. That's when the whole day trip went off the rails and by all rights if there was was a Fenlon Falls Tourist board or local BIA, they be shitting bricks. The service at Fenlon Falls Brewery was awful, both servers working the patio claimed to be super busy, it took us almost an hour to get our lunches while locals were getting their orders within ten minutes of ordering, well after we sat down. There was chocolat...