Bill Smith's Photography

I went to Midnight Madness for the first time in a really long time (10-15 years), I wanted to do some street photography. Midnight Madness is a long time street festival put on by the downtown BIA, kicking off summer clearance sales with local retailers and restauarants set up temporary patios on Lakeshore Road. This has been going on for decades.  Well reality creeps in, street festivals are a big soft target for someone with an axe to grid with society.  Midnight Madness was fortified with salt trucks and other vehicles from Oakville Public Works Department at each end of Lakeshore Road  and on side streets feeding in. I also noticed a lot of the merchants didn't have tables outside anymore as in the past, the sales were in the stores proper.  Out of all the photographs, the shot of the DJ is my favourite. It hit Flickr explore and the metrics went off the charts on that site.  Camera: Nikon F2SB, Nikkor S.C. 50 f1.4 lens.  Film: Decade old...

I drove down to London Two Sunday's ago to pay a visit to my old friend Jean-Pierre Faucher and check out the London Vintage Camera Show. It was an opportunity to wander around downtown London and do some photography on the way back to Oakville the day after we'll look at those photos later. The London Vintage Camera Show is a cool event, it's more intimate than the Toronto Camera Shows and I find much friendlier. I managed to score a perfect Nikkor Ai 50 f2 lens (can't get enough that glass) along with a perfect looking chrome Nikon FM. I got a great opportunity to meet two people I met via two Facebook Photography groups. Anda Marcu is the next closest Film Shooters Collective member to me and it was great to place a face to the name and Dan Hebert who I know via Creative Film Photography.  J.P and I went for lunch at a great brewpub called Toboggan and did a photo walk afterward. Camera: Nikon F2S, Nikkor S.C. 50 f1.4 lens. Film: Rollei RPX 400, HC110 B. ...