Bill Smith's Photography

Queen St. West has changed a ton, having lived in the Greater Toronto Region for the past 40 years, this stretch of ashaplt from University to Spadina Avenue was the nexus of the indy music scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Feels kinda weird walking through my own ghost city places like the Ultrasound Show Bar and Bamboo are long long gone. At least the Rivoli and the Horseshoe remain and long may they reign. Camera: Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko lenses. Film: Fomapan 400, HC110 B.

We had the Toronto Film Shooters Winter 2020 Meet Up and photo walk a few weeks back, it was a super nice day, and yes there are tons of photos coming up over the next few posts. The turn out was great with the usual suspects plus a bunch of new people who found out about the event via Instagram and lurkers in the Facebook group. The game plan was meet up at a coffee shop on Shuter Street and made our way over to Downtown Camera for a film top up before make our way along Queen St. West. The stretch in this post is from Church St. over to Osgoode Hall which is the north end of the financial district. This time out I grabbed a few quick portraits of some of the Toronto Film Shooters, I have to do this more often at events. I forgot how nice Fomapan 400 is for portraiture, In fact I was shooting Fomapan 400 for a gritty 1970s Tri-X look, well I was blown away at how nice the results are. Now I was processing with HC110, the new clear liquid variety which works just like the old stuff...