Bill Smith's Photography

The annual long weekend photographic retreat in Northern Muskoka happeed a month ago but feels like a lifetime. This is in fact the only black and white roll I shot over the course of four days, the rest was in colour, mostly C-41 negative and two roll of slide film (still at the lab due to a backlog).  This weekend I rolled with two cameras I used ten years ago, the Nikon FM2 and the F3, this time around both titanium models. They complimented each other on this years's trip. and ran with a lens compliment  from 24mm to a pair of 50 F1.8 lenses,  the 80-200 F4 Nikkor AIS zoom, and the 300 F5.6 telephoto lens.  The 300 I used around Billie Bear Resort and spent most of the time in my duffle bag.  Using the black and white roll as the introduction is part of my usual schtick, at some point I should just shoot one year in black white exclusively. Adox CHS 100 II is one of my favourite black and white films out there, a little thin on the ground but worst case you ...

 Yes Virgina, Beaverton exists and it lies on the eastern shores of Lake Simcoe, in a transition zone between farming counry in Brock Township and cottage country of the Kawarthas to the east. My personal  connection to Beaverton is two fold, two cousins are the custodians of the Smith-Stewart-Grant Cottage in Cedarhurst just south of town and two, my great uncle Masson up until the late 1940s was the town doctor.  Jo-Anne was up in North Bay for a family visit and I had the weekend to myself. Would have gone Saturday but the weather wasn't condusive for day trips. Even on Sunday when I went up the light, was, well, weird. Smoke from the wild fires in Northern Ontario and Quebec was lingering in the atmosphere and it felt humid as in thunderstorms could pop up in the afternoon humid.  That didn't stop me from shooting two rolls of Kodak Ektar 100 through my Nikon F100 on this day trip. Roll one you see here, it was a fun day and I got a chance to try out a new lens, ...