Bill Smith's Photography

Limberlost Forest is one of those Northern Muskoka treasures I hope doesn't get too discovered, I love hiking the trails and it's much quieter than Algonquin Park which is a about a half hour drive east. There are a variety of trails that vary in difficulty and length, Buck Lake lands around the middle.  If there's one bit of advice, choose your camera gear carefully, or, around KM 4, or 5, you're going to regret not getting into shape and building endurance beforehand. Something I'm doing for next year, that said, used the 180 F2.8 ED lens, wow, I can't say enough, amazing glass!   My F4 was perfect for this hike as it delivered consistantly perfect exposures frame after frame. I'll stand by it's Nikon's last manual focus pro body, when configured with a K or in my case a P screen.  Camera: Nikon F4, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, ECN2 processed at Graination Lab.  ...

 Jo-Anne and peeled off from the group after lunch Saturday and went for a hike in Limberlost Nature Preserve, one of my favourite happy places. We chose a shorter hike around Clear and Turtle Lakes but the network is designed as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" and scale up to a really long hike if you wanted to. We both are introverts by nature and need some downtime from the crowd.  I also had a chance to shoot with my Nikon AF-D 20 F2.8 prime lens, it's almost an essential for landscape photography as you can tell with the last few images. The F100 was the perfect camera to roll with while hiking, easy to use and you still have the sophisticated matrix metering system sort of 80% of an F5 without the heavy chassis.  As you can tell we were two weeks early for fall colours in the Northern Muskokas and Algonquin Highlands. You roll with what you have and enjoy the early fall day.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 proc...