On My North With Jo-Anne for the NLP 2024 Long Weekend

I really have to take my Leica M4-2 on more adventures outside the city. The annual No Light Pollution photography retreat came up quick this year. with one major difference, I was starting in Toronto, not in Oakville and I didn't have to get quite so early this time around. We drove up to the Shortis/s/ Cafe in Beaverton for breakast before hitting Highway 35. Fall colours this year as bit of a bust, we were a few weeks early and honestly, it felt like late August. That said, not one drop of rain and we got lots of sun. 

This year I packed my Lcica M4-2 and a couple of lenses for the drive up and back and a Nikon F100 for the hikes where more versitle lenses were required. I will say this again Kodak Pro Image 100 is a great film I love the results I got on the drive up.  I had to do very little work in Lightroom, pretty much just cropping pretty much. 

To re-cap, Light Lens Labs lenses love colour film. and I have to shoot more with my M4-2 outside the city. 


Camera: Leica M4-2, Light Lens Lab 8 Element 35 F2 "Summicron" lens. 

Film: Kodak Pro Image 100, processed at Graination Lab. 


Downtown Beaverton Parking Under the Trees Whimsey Sign Downtown Beaverton Winston In Front of the Hardware Store Waiting to Turn into Downtown Beaverton Is the Chip Shop Ever Open?_ Is the Chip Shop Side Entrance Jo-Anne Sept 2024 Haliburtons_ Welcome to Dorset Motorcycle Riders._ Pair of Hogs in Dorset Sept 2024 Robinson's General Store and Home Hardware Sept 2024 1 One Lane Bridge South in Dorset Dorset Channel Sept 2024 1 Finished Crossing the One Bridge to the South Side of Dorset Dorset Store Seasonal Display in Fronte Um, Where's the Bigwin? Bigwin Museum and the One Lane Bridge Bigwin Funnel The Dorset One Lane Bridge Across the Channel Pretty Quiet Across the Channel Trading Bay Dining company is Hibernating Jo-Anne in Dorset_ Dorset United Church in the Shade Dorset United Church Entrance in the Shade Looking Down to Lake of Bays Made it to the Explorer's Lodge at Billie Bear

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