Bill Smith's Photography

 We had the post with the walk between the Wychwood Street Car Barns and Spadina House, now here's the interior photos. We got to Spadina House in the nick of time because a downpour opened up just as we got inside.  Spadina House is an interesting place a 19th century mansion built on top of even older country house and is a living museum showing life in the 1920s.  Olympus OM-2n, MC Zuiko lenses.  Film: Ilford HP5 400 pushed to 1600, Ilfotec HC 1+15. 

 I picked up a Nikkor AIS 28 F2 lens, to add to my manual focus Nikkor lens fleet. I already own a Nikkor N 28 F2 which is a pre AI F mount. Fast lenses are expensive and you are paying for the wider aperture for low light shooting environments. Usually you get a compromise with speed for sharpness, some cases like the 35 F1.4 you get barrel distortion you have to fix in post processing in Light Room. I don't have that in the 28 F2 series of lenses. Barrel distortion is rather low.  I was waiting for my friend Dana to come into the city for dinner, it gave me an opportunity to wander around the Annex for a bit very late afternoon/early evening. I love this neighbourhood, spent a lot of time around there back in the 1990s. For those not from Toronto, the Annex is just northwest of University of Toronto's downtown campus and the borders sorta starts in Bathurst in the west end to about Avenue Road to the east. with the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Rail corridor to the north and ...

I haven't experienced such a gloomy Christmas in my life with the dark grey weather. After the Chinatown adventure we returned to the Beaches and I went out for a walk with my brother and Maya, everyone's favourate full of sass black lab mystery mix. It was getting grimmer even around 2 PM so, pushed HP5 to the rescure.   It was a weird Christmas in many respects, first one without mom, and my house and dog sitting services weren't required so I wasn't staying in the Beaches over the Christmas holidays. I did however spend time at Jo-Anne's, more on that later. The weather was just odd, very Lower Mainland BC, we historically had white Christmases. Not this year..... Camera: Nikon F4, 40 F2 Voigtlander Ulron SL 2 Lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400@ 1600 processed in Ilfotec HC 1+15.