Bill Smith's Photography

  Paid way too much for a special edition camera, but you know what, I was born in Montreal, lived there for the first 12 years of my life and still foot for the Habs (they are having a decent playoff run so far), so there. I loaded up with Fomapan 100 and enjoyed an early October weekend starting an Espresso and croissant at L'Amour in my neighbourhood, then  a trip down to Graination to pick up some negatives and went up to Bathurst St. on the edge of the Annex to scout a starting point for the October Toronto Film Shooters Photowalk.  On saturday Jo-Anne and I explored Moore Park west of Mount Pleasant Road, checking out my great granddad Arthur Smith's house at the corner of Glenrose and Clifton. We then wandered west along St. Clair, then down to The Rebel House for a late lunch.  In hindsight I should have processed the Fomapan 100 in 510 Pyro to control the highlights.  Camera: Canon F-1 Montreal Olympics Edition, FD SSC 50 F1.4 lens.  ...

 North Toronto is familar turf for me, partly because Jo-Anne lives around Yonge and Eglington, it was also my late Aunt Barbara's part of the world though she live a bit further north in the Cricket Club Neighbourhod north of Lawerance and east of Avenue Road. My friends John Meadows and Ori Carmona joined me on a familar walk ruote. Sadly Jo-Anne has a part time job as a rehersal pianist for a local theatre group, and Sunday is rehearsal day for the next two months.  Shooting colour film a grey late winter day sounds counter intuitive but, the results speak for themselves. I'm stockpiling up on consumer grade film for this year and tossing it in the freezer. My logic is simple. While I love Ektar 100, the new $20 CAD per roll price, not so much, same goes for Portra 400, there are alternatives like Lomo 100 and 400 C-41 and I'm even returning to Fuji Superia Extra 400. Watching Risby's Youtube channel intrigued me. I haven't shot with that film in years and consid...