Winter Stations in the Beaches 2026 Edition

 The Beaches Winter Stations Installation is an annual event where teams from different arcitecture schools and design firms design shelters around, or, near by lifeguard chairs at Woodbine Beach. I usually photograph them near the end of the month around March Break, this time around at the beginning of the month, usually mother nature and people aren't kind to the installations. 

This is also another opportunity to shoot with the Leica R6, the first time around was Ilford HP5 400, and photographing the Beaches ice build up which is all gone by the end of February/early March. The first time around I used the spot metering feature, on this roll I used Large Field Averaging which was Leica's answer to I guess Matrix metering or perhaps closer to Minolta's CLC metering. 

I also shot with Lomo Colour 400 C-41 a chance to push Large Field Averaging metering along with seeing how prime Leica R glass played with colour film. The skies were mixed being more cloudy than sunny which was good, I wanted to see how things handled in mixed lighting. The R6 is a fun camera to shoot with, I have this sneaking suspicion I'm going to be forcing myself to shoot with the rest of my camera collection. 

Camera: Leica R6, Leica R 3 cam 50 F2 Summicron Lens, 28 F2.8 Elmarit Lens. 

Film: Lomo 400 C-41.