Bill Smith's Photography

  I ran with a two camera set up on this NLP trip, a Nikon F4 and FM2n, and a selection of lenses including the Nikkor AIS ED 180 F2.8 lens, not used on this particular roll. Film wise throughout the full trip I used Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D motion picture stock which was ECN2 processed at Graination Lab in Toronto. Had intentions of shooting black and white but didn't. Next year might be an all black and white extravaganza.  My equipment choice of course came to bite me in the ass on the hike in Limberlost Forest, more on that when we get there. For now we started by arriving at Billie Bear Resort and headed  Ragged Falls on the Oxtongue River, just outside of Algonquin Park in the morning. I was here once before with the group back in 2013 (gulp, that long ago?).  The skies threatening rain for most of the day, we lucked out.  Part of me wonders if I should have just run with the FM2n and left the F4 home, but I wanted the matrix metering..... Camera: N...

Welcome to Part two the Oxtongue River set. I shot this on Fuji Superia Extra 400, and it was also around the time my eight year old Epson V600 wore out and was on its last legs. Five hundred dollars later, I was back in business for the last roll I have of NLP 2023 which is the next post.  Camera: Nikon FM2/T, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Fujifilm Superia 400. 

I first visited the Oxtongue Rapids 10 years ago on my first photography retreat with the NLP group. I'm using the same gear sort of as I was a decade ago but with different film stocks this time around. On this post I rolled with the Nikon F3/T and Portra 160 which fast became my new favourite splurge for medium speed colour negative film. I prefer Portra 160 over 400 any day of the week and it fast replaced Ektar 100 as the new go to landscape colour negative film.  It was Jo-Anne's first time at the Oxtongue Rapids and was blown away at the beauty. I myself had another chance to photograph an extremely beautiful spot in the eastern edge of Muskoka Region. We also went further up river to see the upper rapids which I did not visit decade ago. I would love to shoot medium format colour film here at some point with my Mamiya C220F.  Camera: Nikon F3/T, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Kodak Portra 160.