Bill Smith's Photography

An early July Saturday morning in Burlington.  Camera: Nikon FM, Nikkor Ai 50 F2 lens.  Film: Kosmo Mono 100, D76 1+1. 

Hamilton and Burlingon waterfronts are inter connected, I was really curious about the Hamilton Beach area, which you can see from the Burlington Skyway, there were a bunch of beach cottages some have been razed and replaced with grander houses and town house developments. It's kinda of a weird spot, one you have a major bridge with one of Canada's busiest highways behind you, and there are large electrical towers between you and the lakefront along with a waterfront path which used to be part of Canadian National's Beach sub that one time provided a shortcut bypassing Hamilton as well as serving some industrial customers.  What most interesting along my little morning adventure, the Hamilton beach was pretty empty while the Burlington Beach was slammed full of people, I took a pass on that for obvious reasons. The Burlington waterfront is more decorative with pedestrian paths and the pier. For the most part Burlington's waterfront is open to the public.  Camera: Nikon ...

What do you do when you're waiting for colour film to be processed at Burlington Camera? Go to downtown Burlington, grab a coffee (Tamp on Brant St. is sublime), wander around and take pictures. I think I also stumbled onto a gateway to a parallel universe and photographed me from over there, staring back.  Covid 19 isn't stopping real estate developement in downtown Burlington, a new condo tower is going with another one planned just down Brant St. The locals aren't happy and while I'm for densifcation I would rather have the surface lots developed have the parking below street grade in a parking garage and leave the street front buildings alone, but that would make way too much sense.  Camera: Mamiya C220f, Sekor 80 f2.8 lens.  Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100, D76 1+1. 

I haven't wandered around downtown Burlington since last year. My favourite camera store Burlington Camera reopened and after picking up some colour negatives that were processed I went for a little photo walk and Americano at Tamp Coffee on Brant St. Conpared to my stomping grounds of Southeast and Downtown Oakville, Burlington's downtown has a totally different vibe, and taking a good long look at this town it has a couple of decent pizza joints, two independent book stores (one new, another used),  Burlington Camera (no brainer) and a good craft brewery with two others not that far away in Hamilton next door. What's not to like?  I was shooting with one of my Canon New F-1's and Lomography Kino Berlin 400, the new formulation, which for those in the know is respooled ORWO N74 400 motion picture stock. I like this film better in 35mm than in 120 format, sounds heretical but I was fighting newton rings when scanning my results from the Texas Leica over March Break. Ber...