Bill Smith's Photography

I had to go to Downtown Camera to get some passport photos done, yup, that time in the decade cycle to get the passsport renewed. The Downtown Core was hit hard from the snow storm of a few weeks ago and as of this blog post, they are still removing snow even though we've had a mild spell. In these photos it's still winter with a capitol W.  Shooting in winter, to get the snow right you need to overexpose, with the Olympus OM-1md meter it's pretty easy, aim the needle upward but not too far out of range, or meter anything but snow, the buildings in the scene work just nightly. The Olympus OM controls aren't everyone's cup of tea, but during the winter with photographer's winter gloves, shooting with this camera is pretty easy.  Camera: Olympus OM-1md, Zuiko Lenses.  Film: Kodak Tri-X 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

 We got capital W winter this year, Jo-Anne and I pondered what to do one Saturday, one idea was to head down to Harbourfront. Thankfully didn't go that route. Toronto got hit with roughly 25-30 cm of snow. Nowhere near as bad as Montreal, they got hit with 70+ cm of snow. This is Toronto, where there's an annual convention of the Summer Tires Club. We wandereed over into Leaside to check out Avoca Chocolates on Millwood.  Leaside is an ineteresting neighbourhood, came into being as a new Rosedale by some owners of Canadian Northern Railway at the turn of the 20th century. North Toronto wasn't interested in having this new neighourhood amalgamated with them, so Leaside was an independent town until the late 1960s when it was folded into the borough of East York and eventually the City of Toronto. The neighbourhood is littered with a particular house, which I've nicknamed the Toronto two story which had an infinately customizable look and they are all over the place city...