Winter 2025 in my Neighbourhood.

 This has been a winter, sadly I haven't been on my skis once, and I'm going to take this season off, which is sad due to the huge dump of snow this past month or so, and it's been consistantly cold, amazing ski weather, and I'm on the injured roster, a sprained hip flexor. Can't ski but I can walk and walking has been good to loosen things up. I'm going to hit the gym again soon to start to rebuild strengh. 


I walked around my neighbourhood with my black Rollei 35S, and a roll of Bergger Pancro 400 and it helped me loosen up the problematic left hip flexor. Walking around was good, sitting for long periods of time bad, and twisting the wrong way even worse. Throw in multiple dumps of snow, winter photography in North Toronto changes everything. 

There are days I wonder if the Rollei 35 is the perfect group photo walk camera. It's super light, the optics, be it Tessar, Xenar or Sonnar are amazing, and you have any focal length as long as it's 40mm, which is, sortra just right. I have a tiny camera bag for a Rollei 35, the Sekonic L398a meter because most of my Rollei 35 meters are DOA, and maybe three rolls of film, the perfect size and weighs next to nothing. 


Spoiler alert, I sprained my left hip flexor by coughing too hard during a rather nasty cold that hit me over the Christmas holiday season. No ski or any other athletic injury, I coughed too hard.  


Camera: Rollei 35S, 40 f2.8 Zeiss Sonnar Lens. 

Film: Bergger Pancro 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 


Mount Pleasant Road Before the Huge Snowfall Walking Down Mount Pleasant Jan 2025 Waiting for the Light To Change at ErskineJan 2025 Slush on the Apartment Building Driveway Redpath Meets Erskine Jan 2024 Idling Cement Mixer on Erskine Jan 2024 Unloading Cement Mixer on Erskine Between Condo and Townhouse In Front of 33 Erskine Yonge and Castle Field Condo Facade Yonge and Sherwood Jan 2025 Yonge and Sherwood Two Jan 2025 Best Fresh Buy Market North Jan 2025 Green Valley Products Company Truck Twin Cranes at Yonge and Roselawn Crossing with Impact_ Welcome Mats on Display West Side of Yonge Construction Sidewalk Hidden HIstoric Building Behind the Condo Ollie Quinn Corner DeMello Side of Yong_ Kibo Sushi and Good Bite_ The Before Skyline at Canada Square Feb 2025 Uptowne Brie and Coffee Shop Feb 2025 Uptown Brie and Brewing House on Castlefield_ Middle of Duplex_ White House on St. Clements_ Middle of Yonge at Blythwood

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