Bill Smith's Photography

 Erin Ontario is in Wellington County halfway between Orangeville and Guelph and would be sort of a regional centre of sorts. Erin used to have a branch line formerly Credit Valley Railway/Canadian Pacific that went from Cataract in Caledon to Elora where the route terminated. That got yanked up 30 years ago and is now a rail trail loved by gravel cyclists.  I've driven through Erin on the way to the Caledon Ski Club all the time in the winter and I have photographed on occasion. As a small town its pretty healthy with some industry and with commuters going down to "Pill Hill" in Northern Mississauga. The big downside with Erin is the main drag is an arterial road between village on Highway 10 and Guelph, and there trucks, lots of trucks, some carrying goods, others are hauling gravel from local quarries in neighbouring Caledon. It's perma rush hour with the amount of traffic passing through.  Camera: Mamiya C220F Twin Lens Reflex Camera,  Sekor 80 F2.8 lens.  F...

 I needed to get out of dodge and I have a bit of a project documenting the Credit River Headwaters land within the GTA Greenbelt which covers large parts of Caledon, the north end of Halton Region and the eastern corner of Wellington County. Part of the plan was to get up to Erin, shoot it on my Mamiya C220f and head over to Belfountain for lunch at Higher Ground Cafe because I had a craving for their grilled pesto chicken wrap. I brought my Olympus OM-1n with MC Zuiko 50 f1.8 lens loaded with some Kodak Color Plus 200.  Part of the Headwaters Project is documenting the small towns within the watershed and the pressures facing them. Erin is a village at the east end of Wellington County of just over 11 thousand people, the main industry is still farming but the town is fast becoming a suburb of Brampton, Mississauga, Guelph, even many years ago I worked with an account director at Carlson Marketing Group who commuted down  from Erin. That's happening more and more as peo...