Taken sometime around 2010 with a Beirette VSN 2 35 mm camera which was once sold in Boots drugstores. It was a great little 35 mm snapshot camera which, although generally considered to be a “toy camera” because of the very cheap plastic build, was equipped with a real focusing lens and traditional aperture and […]
I took these photos around the historic Dominion Observatory adjacent to the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa (Canada) in 2002 with a 1940’s Agfa Isolette. These are straight scans of my black & white negatives on a Canon 8400F flatbed film scanner. There were several models of the Isolette over the years. It was a
I took these photos in the heart of Centretown Ottawa in 2004 with an early 1950’s Agfa Isola medium format snapshot camera, loaded with Kodak 400TX black and white film. These are straight scans of the negatives on a Canon 8400F flatbed film scanner. Agfa was a German company which like Kodak, produced both film
This post is carried over from the previous version of my website. Cannabis has now been legalized in Canada since 2018, and we have the fermented skunk urine odour everywhere to prove it. I took pictures at some of the 420 events on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in the years leading up to it whenever
This is a gallery post carried over from my previous website. Although shot on digital, the idea was to go out and simulate using up only one roll of 35mm film on a single walk. All taken in the Centretown area of Ottawa, Canada.
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This is a gallery post originally on the previous version of my website. It’s the former U.S. embassy in Ottawa, directly across Wellington Street from Parliament Hill. Built in 1931-32, it had been vacant since 1999, until it was designated to become the Indigenous Peoples Space. All photos taken in 2017 with a Google Nexus
I’ve always enjoyed Lo-Fi snapshot photography in all its forms, and especially the instant film variety. I like the challenge of having to find subjects and lighting that suit the camera’s limitations rather than the other way around. I took these pictures within walking distance of my apartment in Ottawa with a Fujifilm Instax 210
This is my original Polaroid SX-70. It was a gift from my now-late parents in 1974. I took these snapshots with it until it stopped ejecting pictures sometime in the early 1990’s. I still have it. I loved the SX-70. Having previously used peel-apart Polaroids, it was quite the novelty, especially with Ansel Adams promoting
The Holga 120 S was the original model of the infamous Chinese-made Holga medium format toy camera. The current equivalent is the Holga 120 N, still available from various sources. I took these pictures in Ottawa (Canada) on black and white film sometime around 2000-2001. You could pick your film and your lighting conditions, but
The Mayfair Theatre, in the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada, was built during the depths of Great Depression. It’s one of only two original neighborhood cinemas still in operation in the Nation’s Capital, and one of the oldest surviving independent movie houses in Canada. I always loved going to movies, but I always
