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Apologies for the delay in posting this, this past week was ‘Roid Week, so I was focused on getting the daily shots posted. This little white clapboard church sits at the end of a road in Wallacetown, Ontario, south of Dutton, a 15-minute drive from the 401. St. Peter’s Anglican Church is one of the oldest continually operating churches in southwest Ontario. It has been in this same building since its construction in 1827; only the H.M. Chapel of the Mohawks near Brantford, Ontario, is older. I’m not often in this part of the province, usually up near London or Chatham-Kent. Still, a call wasRead More →

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Returning to the beginning for me. One of my very first, actually my fourth image ever shot on 4×5 film was of this building, Hamilton’s Lister Block. The original block was constructed in 1886, but it was burned to the ground by fire in 1923, undaunted a fireproof (it was proven many times over its abandoned years) building was completed in 1924. This beautiful brick and terracotta structure is one of the more iconic on James Street. After it was abandoned, I explored the first building in Hamilton; many a Saturday night was spent wandering her empty halls. But unlike many structures downtown that endRead More →

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I sadly was unable to participate in the week long celebration of Instant Photography last year because I was in the Chicagoland region, but this year I went full force and worked on reducing my stock of expired Polaroid and Impossible material! I got the shooting started early over the weekend before ‘roid week so I’d have two days worth of material already stocked up. Day One – Jaite Depot Anniversary Speed Graphic – Fuji Fujinon-W 1:56/125 – Polaroid Type 79 Located in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, the Jaite train depot one served the company town, the town’s surviving building now serveRead More →

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Probably one of the most photographed buildings in all of downtown Niagara-On-The-Lake. The Niagara Apothecary operated as an actual practice from 1820 to 1964. Today still serves partly in that role but mostly acts as a museum, restored to how it would have looked in 1886. There were stares as I setup the camera in the middle of the street, don’t worry, I wasn’t blocking traffic. But a big monorail camera certainly cuts a figure. “Looking for cast members?” one of the many tourists asked. While the Sinar F2 is a great camera, and I understand the monorail camera’s value, there’s too much bulk toRead More →

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When I was booking my hotel for the last leg of my seven-day adventure through the southern United States, I intended on getting a hotel in Morristown, WV; for some reason, Hotels.com ended up showing my hotels in Chambersburg, PA, I thought the two towns were closer together. Well, they weren’t. But it turned out that Chambersburg is relatively close to Gettysburg. Yes, that Gettysburg, the site of a vicious battle during the American Civil War in 1863. So I decided that I would visit it. I had never been before, so I asked my friend Ryan, who had participated in the 150th-anniversary reenactment ofRead More →

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Many people have heard me complain about lugging around the large format gear, a heavy tripod, lots of film holders, and all the extra gear that comes with shooting large format. But I keep on shooting it. So many ask why…so in response to Mat’s blog on the subject. And while it’s complaining, it’s nothing compared to when Mat and I drove around the Cleveland Flats in 2013, and he had the massive Sinar P2 8×10 camera. So why do I shoot it? Because the results are outstanding, I find that it disciplines me; I can go out with ten sheets of film and comeRead More →

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Man, the trouble is We don’t know who we are instead One of my favourite bands is Jars of Clay, on their fifth studio album; my favourite album cover is “Who We are Instead.” The cover features the band in front of these old silos; I was drawn to this as a fan of abandoned buildings. When a fellow band fan noticed on Facebook that I was passing through Nashville, TN, this past week, and my original planned photo for week 16 was stopped by a paranoid sheriff, she pointed me at the actual silos. Sadly, I realised that the image on the cover isRead More →