Bill Smith's Photography

 August long weekend was a strange one, I came into the city Saturday for a photo walk (being uploaded at a later date), and stayed at Jo-Anne's Saturday night, alone. Jo-Anne was up north visiting her parents, so Sunday morning I wandered the neighbourhood. While there has been a lot of intensive re-development with high rise condos and apartment buildings, there's still a lot of single family houses and semis west of Yonge st. Walk two blocks west of Yonge St., you are in a differnt world. It gets a lot more quiet.  There's something about Toronto between St. Clair,  Lawerence, Bayview and Avenue Road that just feels like home for me. I hope to find a condo what works for me around here when the time comes. I am just putting it out to the universe. We'll see next year when the dust settles.  Camera: Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor HC 50 F2 Lens.  Film: Kentmere 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...

  It's been a month, my mom passed almost oa month ago on May 28 at age 85, we knew this day would come, and after living with mixed dementia, COPD and congestive heart failure. Mom's at peace with dad now, and I'm glad for that. Now, things are going to change, a lot.   I pulled out dad's Nikon F with the eyelevel prism, I wanted a connection with dad to process what I went through from funeral planning (it was a good send off), to now, dealing with the self replicating to do list in regards to the estate. Now wandering around Oakville with a family heirloom shooting mostly on a Nikkor S 50 F1.4 lens (the way dad did in the 1960s), it hit me like a ton of bricks. My time in Oakville is winding down and the chapter will close soon and new adventures beckon.  Camera: Nikon F (641 serial number), Pre Ai Nikkor lenses.  Film: Kentmere 100, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

Been a while since I last shot with Kentmere 100, this time I processed in Ilfotec HC 1+31 dilution. The results speak for themselves below. It's a nice film to shoot with, and to scan as it dries flat. The big bonuse is Kentmere 100 is a budget film, and considering where film prices have been headed of late, this is a nice change.  I shot with my Olympus OM-2n, and only had UV filters on my lenses and shot with my Zuiko 28 F3.5, S 50 F1.4 chrome nose, and MC Zuiko 100 F2.8 lenses. The OM-2n is one of my favourite Olympus bodies, they always deliver great photos thank you to off the film plane metering.   Camera: Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Lenses.  Film: Kentmere 100, Ilfotec HC 1+31.