Another Jewel

   A new gift, courtesy of my lovely wife:

Toronto Photo Walks - March 5

   For the last couple of years, Paul Henman has organized the Toronto Photo Walks tours.  I joined a walk for the first time on March 5.

   The objective was to tour Riverdale Farm and the Toronto Necropolis.  I'll let Paul summarize it:

   "The wettest walk in quite a while, combined with large parts of the farm and cemetery being inaccessible because of ice, meant we cut the day very short and headed to the pub!"

   It was wet, cold and miserable.  Fortunately, the Vigilant Six-20 suffered no harm from the damp, and delivered great results.

More Vigilant Now!

   More stuff.  It takes awhile to accumulate enough films to justify the trip down to get them processed; hence the lack of new posts. However, I just got 5 -- count 'em -- 5 -- rolls back.  Here's a preview.  As always, click on the picture to see a bigger version.

   First off:  a  30-second time exposure from the 30th floor of the Minto Hotel in Ottawa:

 

Six-20: Instant Old

   The first roll from the Kodak Vigilant came back from the lab. Shot with cheap Chinese B&W film. Unexpectedly, all the pictures look like 70-year-old snapshots.

There's nothing like a Polaroid ...

   ... when you first peel away the negative, and see the print:

Light Tight Boxes

   Recently, a posting on The Online Photographer mentioned the "Slow Photography Movement". This isn't about that, at least not intentionally. Rather, this blog is really about Christmas.

   You see, Santa left a couple of neat toys under the tree.

   My wife gave me this beauty: