Bill Smith's Photography

 I love Belfountain, been going through on the way up hiking or skiing in the winter, stopping for lunch, coffee or an ice cream cone. It's quaint little hamlet in the heart of regional municipality of Caledon in the north end of Peel Region. While pretty, Belfountain is under pressure from both development and over tourism. Just off Mississauga Road where it tranistions into Main St. there's a parcel of former farmland that's been passsd from one developer to another over the years. The current project is to build mansions and make some sort of rural super luxury neighbourhood. There's one little problem, every household and business in Belfountain gets their water from wells, and the water table is pretty much maxed out. Any new development will cause havoc for the locals.  The other challenge is over toursim, over the past 10 years, I've seen what best could be described as the BlogTO effect,  where Toronto regional news blog. Even pre pandemic, Belfountain was a...

Belfountain Conservation Area is better in the winter, if a tad slippery due to the freeze and thaw cycles we're getting. Camera: Nikon FM, Nikkor Ai 50 f2 lens. Nikkor Ais 24 F2.8 lens. Film: Rollei RPX 400, HC100 B.

I love shooting up here in the winter..... Camera: Nikon N90s, Nikkor Af 50 f1.8 lens. Film: Kodak Portra 400

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a safe happy 2018! Just a note my blog posts are going to be a little random until the new year! Nikon F2A, Nikkor Ai 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Lomography F Squared 400

A small hamlet in Caledon Ontario.... Camera: Hasselblad 500 C/M, 80 f28 Zeiss Planar Lens Film: Kodak Tmax 400, HC110 B.

I love winter, truly I do, I embrace the beauty of the season, been skiing for 38 years and that keeps me sane during the winter. This year it's cold, I mean really cold as in a puffy down jacket on a cold January's night has no insulation value with arctic winds taking the windchill down -38c or some crazy number like that. If you plan to go out and partake in some winter photography, dress in layers,  have spare batteries for your camera as they drain fast in cold and keep them close to your body. I still shoot with film and my go to camera for winter and travel photography, the Olympus OM-1n has a mechanical shutter so the battery just powers the centre weighted light meter. For this series of photos I used a black and white motion picture stock as a still film from a German company called ORWO  .  The particular product was 35mm UN54 which is rated 100 ISO for daylight and I process in Kodak Xtol at a one part developer one part water ratio for 6 minutes and 30 ...