Just Super

The bounty of North America on the shelves of a Toronto supermarket. Taken with the Olympus XA on Fuji Neopan 1600 film, developed in PC-TEA. This may be my last post for a week or so — I’m off to a conference in Nova Scotia and am not sure I’ll be able to update from…

King Street East 4

Overhead power and telephone lines are everywhere in downtown Toronto. You can either never look up when shooting, or you can try to work them into your compositions. I usually go for the latter. This was taken on our King Street East walk last week, at the corner of Jarvis St. Yashicamat 124 with orange…

Bay and College

This is a shot that I’ve had on Flickr for a while, where it got a positive response, so I’m giving it a try here. It was taken in January using the Olympus XA (thanks again Jon!) on Fomapan 200, developed in Rodinal.

Afternoon light

Today is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in Toronto we’re closer to the equator than to the North Pole (though with the -9C temperatures, it sure doesn’t feel like it), and it still got dark mighty early. I shudder to think how many hours of daylight my visitors from…

Bus Bays

Abandoned bus bays at a transit station in mid-town Toronto. Olympus XA, Fuji Neopan 1600 film (at 800), camera propped up on a fence, exposure about 5 seconds. Given the “lith film” look in PS.