Bill Smith's Photography

 I don't get down to the Beaches as often as I used to, with Marcus and Charlotte now in their 20s and late teens respectively and that means my house and dog sitting services aren't required any more, safe for the annual trip.  That said what is fun is visting the Beaches Winter Stations mostly along Woodbine Beach, they are designed by architectural students from Canada and abroad and act are built in late January and come down at the end of March. The Toronto Camera Club put a meet up together to go photograph them and it was a fun afternoon. I finished the roll of Fomapan 100 just wandering the neighbourhood.  Camera: Nikon F3/T, Nikkor AIS 50 F1.8 lens.  Film: Fomapan 100, Rollei Supergrain 1+15. 

The annual long weekend photographic retreat in Northern Muskoka happeed a month ago but feels like a lifetime. This is in fact the only black and white roll I shot over the course of four days, the rest was in colour, mostly C-41 negative and two roll of slide film (still at the lab due to a backlog).  This weekend I rolled with two cameras I used ten years ago, the Nikon FM2 and the F3, this time around both titanium models. They complimented each other on this years's trip. and ran with a lens compliment  from 24mm to a pair of 50 F1.8 lenses,  the 80-200 F4 Nikkor AIS zoom, and the 300 F5.6 telephoto lens.  The 300 I used around Billie Bear Resort and spent most of the time in my duffle bag.  Using the black and white roll as the introduction is part of my usual schtick, at some point I should just shoot one year in black white exclusively. Adox CHS 100 II is one of my favourite black and white films out there, a little thin on the ground but worst case you ...