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Once the Royal Connaught Hotel was among the jewels of the Hamilton Urban Exploration scene, this stunning early 20th Century Hotel had a glamourous past. It ended its life as a slum hotel with only a shade of its former glory. A good urban exploration event often includes a trip to the Royal Connaught. The rooftop offered stunning views of the city’s skyline, especially the industrial zones by the lake. However, when it comes to locations, the hotel was dull from a photographic standpoint. Still, it offered up a rich history that traced back to the city’s glory days to the slump and is nowRead More →

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My history with Consumer’s Glass starts somewhere other than Hamilton, but rather my hometown of Milton. One of the earliest abandoned locations I ‘discovered’ after getting a hot tip was the former Milton plant, but that was among the final Consumer’s Glass plants constructed and among the first to be torn down. The Milton works, completed in the late 1970s and became operational in 1980, was a local landmark, the tall silos standing over a small industrial section and easily seen when heading east on the 401 approaching Highway 25. The Hamilton works, however, were far more interesting, not only larger but older, much olderRead More →

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While Fuji Velvia was not my first experience with slide film, it is certainly is the one that made me like slide film. First released in 1990, the film became an immediate threat to Kodachrome, especially Kodachrome 25. And unlike Kodachrome, Velvia used the standard E-6 process that could be done in any lab that covered the process. No need to send it to speciality labs, and you could have your slides back the same day from the right lab. The name itself comes from combining Velvet and Media to describe the smooth images produced by the stock. While the original version was discontinued inRead More →