Bill Smith's Photography

 I didn't shoot Acros 100 (the OG stuff) in 35mm that often and I wound up with this roll kicking around so on an afternoon in the city I decided to shoot it through my Minolta XD-11 I started out downtown then took the Line One Subway up to Dupont  to dry run a potential future photo walk. As for the route, it is still a work in progress, figured out the starting point, part of the route, but the ending point, that needs some work still.  The Northeast part of the Annex and heading into the Republic of Rathnelly is not my usual stomping grounds, the amount of construcion on Dupont surprsied me and didn't surprise me at the same time. The Republic of Rathnelly itself has an interesting history. A tiny pocked between Yorkville and Forest Hill South, the local residents stopped a proposed crosstown expressway from being built which was a great thing. These days Rathnelly is not cheap to buy into but the history is way more intresting than neighbourhing Forest Hill.  Ca...

  Who said Nortth of Bloor St. was boring? Yonge St. between Eglington and Davisville is an ineteresting stretch of street thats is evolving rapidly beyond recognition. Aside from the endless Metrolinx Cross Town LRT construction, the relentless redevelopment of streetscapes from mostly low rise buildings into condos is never ending. Even Canada Square where the TVO studios and Canadian Tire head office are located are going to be torn down and replaced with, you guessed it, a mixed use development with condos. I'm not against condo development, but from first hand experience, even during the now times, subway ridership is pretty busy.  The sad thing is, most of the low rise buildings will be eventually replaced but the neighbourhood charm will be lost forever.  Oh, you noticed something, I shot these on my latest fleet addition, the Nikon F3/T, they came in two flavours, champagne which was only made for a few short years in the 1980s when I think Duran Duran's Hungry Li...