Winter receding

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } It’s positively summer-like in Toronto today — winter is in full retreat.

Newfoundland Outport

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The grounds of the Fishers Loft Inn in Port Rexton, Nfld., where the feature film The Shipping News was filmed. Nikon FG, 24mm f/2.8, orange filter, Ilford FP4 Plus, PC-Gly-TOL.

Newfoundland sky

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A cloudy Newfoundland sky. This image was split-toned in Photoshop but is otherwise unmanipulated. The high contrast comes from the use of an orange filter with B&W film (Ilford FP4 Plus,…

Through a Break in the Grass

I am trying to catch up with scanning some of the many rolls of film I took in Newfoundland last summer. This image comes from Port Rexton, where my wife and I stayed for four days. More Port Rexton images can be found here, here and here. Taken with the Nikon FG and 24mm lens…

Cutlass in Colour

Will the world end if I post a colour digital photograph on Photosensitive? I hope not. In keeping with my desire (see the last post) to improve my eye for colour, here’s a picture of the rusty old car (featured several times on this site) permanently parked down the street from our place. I did…

Colourblindness

Aside from some well-corrected nearsightedness, my vision is good. Why is it, then, that I’m almost unable to “see” photographically in colour? Though I enjoy taking colour photos, and it’s a simple process to convert a colour image into tonally rich B&W in Photoshop, I often find myself up against something of an internal mental…

When you least expect it

Every February I start longing for spring. But somehow, when March comes around, I’ve usually resigned myself to some kind of permanent frosty existence. The late-March thaw then comes as a pleasant surprise. Our first thaw happened earlier this week (a balmy 16C), bringing with it the promise of longer days and sunnier skies to…

Sherwood Forest

Taken on a winter afternoon in Sherwood Park, part of the Don River ravine system that runs through my neighbourhood in mid-town Toronto. Shooting details are the same as for the previous image; I added a vignette in PS.