Bill Smith's Photography

It has been a crappy spring so far, as of publishing it has only started to warm up, early to mid May it felt more like Deluxe April with the distressed pewter skies, endless rain forcasts and cool temperatures. My camera club put on its annual Cameras and Beers night, I grabbed my Minolta SRT 200 and a roll of Rollei RPX 400, I was surprised at how accurate the meter in the camera was with the MR9 adapter. and I wanted to see what I got with pushing RPX 400 to 1600. The results are gritty matching the mood of the lighting and the "Fine British Weather" we have been getting. Puahed RPX 400 doesn't have quite the refinement of say Ilford HP5 pushed to 1600 again the grittiness plays well with the mood. Camera: Minolta SRT 200, MC Rokkoer lenses. Film: Rollei RPX 400, pushed to 1600, HC110 B.

What you see below is the end result of a very busy fall. I'm president of the Oakville Camera Club and every year we hold an annual photography competition open to the public called Capture Oakville  which as been going on for the past seven years. This year the club put the event on hiatus, first off Capture Oakville was in dire need of a re-fresh and secondly we wanted to try Queen Elizabeth Park Community Cultural Centre 's main gallery with an internal exhibit with the theme My World in Transition. It was a pretty wide open topic to facilitate a large number of entries from club members. Now, curating, framing, hanging 80 prints and putting on a smaller event that drew my guess about 150 people on opening night is no easy feat, the Capture Oakville Director stepped down due to professional commitments and thankfully the committee responsible stepped up. I can't thank Kieley Hickey, Walter Sawka Wojtek Ziobicki enough for curating and hanging the exhibit, I know t...

From the Oakville Camera Club Waterfall on Ice photo outing. Twenty four camera club members turned out first thing Sunday morning to shoot Sherman Falls. We were lucky to get some cold temperatures the night before and we actually got some ice formation on the side of the wall. A good time was had by all. Location: Sherman Falls, Ancaster Ontario on the edge of the Bruce Trail. Camera: Mamiya C220f, various Sekor lenses, Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100 processed in Xtol 1+1.