Sometimes you need an easy spot to take photos. And while for many years that spot has been my own downtown in Milton, Ontario. Another option would be Guelph, Ontario, but downtown has been getting a bit rough with folks living on the streets. Plus, the last time I was there, I found drug paraphernalia in the open. So I wanted to get out in early June and settled on another favourite, Dundas, Ontario. I first learned about Dundas during a Doors Open event, and then it fell away from my mind until the pandemic. Dundas presented something different: it was also close to homeRead More →

Well we made it through another year. Like every years things did not always go to plan and that’s okay. Because it’s important to be flexible, especially when this blog and other channels is not a full time job. The year was a lot of fun despite being a little chaotic. I always have hope that things will eventually calm down, but they do in fact always calm up. There was a rather unfortunate bump through the fall with a five week support staff strike that did reduce some capacity for creation, but I had the chance to play catch up through October and NovemberRead More →

While I’ve always known that Fujifilm produces chemistry for film development, I had always assumed it was primarily aimed at colour processing. Since they still manufacture (possibly) mini-lab processing systems for labs to develop C-41. But black & white chemistry? Then I received an email. A reader graciously offered to mail me some developers that were difficult to obtain in North America. I initially thought of Europe, but then a lovely package arrived from Japan and inside were two pouches of Fujifilm Microfine and two pouches of Fujifilm SPD. Well, I was touched, but Microfine was a name I had seen before on the massiveRead More →