Bill Smith's Photography

 Oh damn, shooting colour film through a Nikon F100, it's like playing Doom back in the 1990s with cheat codes, I've never seen Kodak Gold look so damn good. Makes me re-think what gear and film stock I'm bringing up next year to NLP.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Kodak Gold 200, processd by Graination Lab. 

 First off Merrry Christmas, and for those who recently celebrated Hanukkah, I hope you had a joyeous holiday this year! There's no winter shots, well, the skies are grey as polished concrete and the ground is very earth tone green and brown, and more grey. So lets go back in time a few months to early in the fall when I was up north in Muskoka, this is one of two rolls of Euphoric 100 I shot, the skies screamed for some Ektachrome 100, and I got it. The second roll with upload in the new year as I need a break and get back to cleaning and packing up the family house.  Stay safe out there, and have a happy new year!  Camera: Nikon F3/T, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Atlanta Film Co. Euphoric 100 (motion picture Eastman Kodak Ektachrome 100) 

Billie Bear has a long history going back to the turn of the 20th Century when Muskoka was starting its slowtransition from a logging to a tourist region. Billie Bear Fishing Camp, catered to mostly sports fishermen from the early-mid 20th century up until the late 1980s when ownership changed and Billie Bear became a house keeping resort.  What was interesting back in the 1970s and '80s, the helipad was installed and where the powerboats are moored today, the float planes (a pair of DeHaviland Beavers) were tied up for ferrying sport fishermen to more remote lakes. Bille Bear also had a Hughes 300 with floats for smaller lakes.  Things changed in 1989 whin Billlie Bear changed hands and became a resort appealing to more to tourists evolving to what we know and love today. I would have loved to grab a bunch of photos of the float planes, that's still on the bucket list. Some day.  I didn't shoot much black and white this trip, only two rolls of Adox CHS 100 II, With the l...