Bill Smith's Photography

After my time with my cousins, I went up to Beaverton. Jo-Anne was up north visiting family so I did a solo trip and visited extended family. Again the cliche, the less than wonderful weather makes for great photographs. Beaverton is the what I would call the almost gateway to cottage country be it continuing north on the Trans Canada Highway to Orillia or head east over to Highway 35 and the Kawarthas. My cousins own the family cottage just south of Beaverton at Cedarhurst Beach, only there's not much of a beach anymore thank you to erosion on the shores of Lake Simcoe.  This Smiths have deep roots in Brock Township and my great uncle Masson was the town doctor in Beaverton in the first half of the 20th century. Glad I got another photograph of his house on Beaverton's main street which also doubled as his surgery.  Beaverton outside of Summer is dead, winter is probably even more dead. What's interesting are the boathouses on the Beaver River which are alternatives for co...

 Less than wonderful weather makes for better photography.  I drove up to Cannington Thanksgiving weekend to meet up with my cousins Leslie and Wendy for coffee as well as clean up the family cemetary plot on Consesssion 11 just south of town.  Cannington is a small farming town in the northern end of Durham Region and my family has roots in this part of the world, The Smith family owned a feed store on Cameron Street which while my great grandfather William George Smith sold the business before World War 1 and settled in Toronto. The building that housed the business burned down in the early 1990s and is still a vacant lot. Sadly in some ways the town is now a bedroom suburb for Newmarket and Aurora or Oshawa and there's little activity.  Camera: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor AIS 28 f2.8 lens.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, ECN2 processed by Graination Lab. 

 Of course on the drive back to the city, we get the nicest weather of the long weekend up north.  Camera: Nikon FM2n, Voigtlander 40 f2 Ultron SL II Lens.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, ECN2 Processed at Graination Lab