Justfolk's photos

These are relatives of mine, or mostly: a niece, her husband, two grand-nephews, two grand-nieces and the girlfriend of one of the grand-nephews. We were eating out at a local Chinese restaurant with another table of rather older relatives last night. The food was good but I asked them to glare at me. My niece said, "We're rotted." I dolled the picture up with heavy contrast and vignetting this morning and posted it to my grandniece's Fbk page; she liked it.

By day, Molly cleans in the building where I work, and shovels snow around doors leading into the building. By night and on weekends, with her husband and some friends, she's a popular country musician, mainly playing for no fee at old age homes and local music festivals. She's well-loved in both roles. I was leaving for lunch when I saw her sweeping the stairs; I stopped for a chat and a couple of pictures. Expired Kodak 200 film in Ricoh Elnica 35. The vignetting was caused by the camera, but I extended it a little.

It was well above freezing the other day and most of the snow had melted. It was a very dull day.

In the post-storm sun today these fellows dropped by for a couple of minutes and then went on. I've had some friends disagreeing on whether they are pine siskins vs song sparrows vs northern waterthrushes vs female purple finches. I'm arguing for the pine siskin. But what do I know?

We've been in a February blizzard today so I'm thinking back to last summer. This was coming down Oliver's Cove Road towards Tilting Harbour on Fogo Island in mid-August. That's two friends of mine and their dog ahead of me. We had just been in Oliver's Cove watching whales and seabirds.

I liked the look of this fellow who took up about a fifteenth of the whole image.

Another picture from today's blizzard

Today we all got a holiday because of blizzard conditions and it was a good excuse to sit around watching the birds outside the window.

Six weeks ago the cat was given this stuff, detritus of Christmas. She's played with it ever since. Thus it has not made it into the garbage or the recycling or the compost yet. Her deeds are her word, and her word is law.

Well really it's a film beginning, not a film end, but that doesn't matter much. Nor does the fact that it comes from a 10-year-old roll of Fuji 400 film, but that probably matters more than the fact that it got put through my Ricoh Elnica 35M camera. Once it was developed, I cropped this part of the edge of exposure and brought up the local and overall contrast.

A picture from a roll of Kodak 400 film which expired in 2007 but which I shot in the fall of 2015 in my Ricoh Elnica 35M. This was in October but I just had the film developed this past week. This is about one third of the negative, turned upside-down.

I've known E (wearing glasses) for 45 years but had not seen her in over thirty years when I dropped into Sheilagh O'Leary's campaign headquarters last week. I've known Sheilagh since we did a darkroom course together thirty years ago. And I was introduced to C who, like E, is working on the campaign. Sheilagh is hoping to get back on city council in a bye-election in a few weeks. She hasn't been doing much photography lately; too bad because she is a very fine photographer. But she's also an excellent politician. This picture was taken on ten-years-expired Fuji 400 colour film, and I did not like much about the original scan. So, in cleaning up the spots of dust, fixing the lighting, etc., I converted it to black and white. It's not a bad picture after all that. The camera was my Ricoh Elnica rangefinder.

I had a roll of expired Kodak GC400 film in my Ricoh Elnica for a few months and finally got it developed this week. This is about 20% of one negative: my wife reflected in a big puddle back in October.

A few afternoons ago outside my kitchen window. A tiny crop.

The title says it all. It was a roll of (only slightly) outdated slide film (Sensia 100) that I over-exposed by a couple of stops. I didn't take much care in scanning it, partly because it was such a thin and poorly focussed image. Then I converted it into b&w and suddenly I liked it! And I never bothered to try to remove the dust. The camera was a Zeiss Ikon Contessa. The picture was taken in November.

The motto had about thirty words, in tiny font, so it took a bit of reading.

This fellow was back and forth to the feeder today.

These guys are Josh (the dog) and Mom (the cat). They were housemates and cautious friends back in early 1979 when I took this picture. I think I used my Zenit E but I can't properly remember and did not take good notes. The film was Kodak Tri-X.