Justfolk's photos

Spring is creeping in but that *is* a snow bank in the distance. This was the view from my dining-room window this afternoon, and this is a fairly small crop (what? about 15% of the original area?). We've had lots of snowbirds ("juncos") and goldfinches recently, but this was the first fox sparrow I have seen this year.

Alan spends a lot of the day every day outdoors. In summer, he has a small livelihood cutting grass, and later in the year raking leaves. He used to take advantage of snowfalls to shovel snow for people, but by the late winter there is less of that work around. This day, I was dropping in to the fish shop I go to and he was just a few doors away on the sidewalk. We chatter a few minutes and I took two pictures of him; his eyes were smilingly shut in both of them. This was on 2005-expired Konica Centuria 200 film, in the Olympus XA.

I. dropt by to chat and I had that reflector board hanging there, and she let me take her picture. This was on 2005-expired Konica centuria 200 film, in my Olympus XA, the one without the light leaks.

This is another flake from the hat party my sternlaw organised at her house a week or so ago. The winner for most stylish hat was S, and her boyfriend D (my nephew) came in second. The winner for most loony was C; I came second in that regard but I was taking the picture so you are saved from seeing my fit-out. All the prizes were chocolate.

This was last Sunday morning. It had been a cold night, down around minus 12 degrees Celcius (like about +10 F), and there was lots of slobby, sish ice in the Arm. Most of it melted by Noon.

Life Brand 800 film, about ten years expired, and shot in Kodak Retina I. Doctored somewhat in PSP to reduce distracting elements.

My sternlaw organised an Easter dinner and hat party for about a dozen relatives. Here, her son, my nephew, his wife and their son showed off their hats. My hat was a surgical bonnet I acquired 35 years ago to protect my then-long hair from plaster dust. This is about a twelfth of the original picture, cropt to my liking.

My friend (not in the picture) turned 60 last September and, true to her personality, organised a wake for herself. I won't go into the details, but she wanted to make sure that friends of hers who might not make it to her post-death wake could enjoy one in her honour anyway. It was a good time for all.

I lived in three different houses a few hundred feet from this spot about forty years ago. I liked the area, and still do, since it is near the top of the hill from which it is downhill to everything important.

I recently scanned a bunch of 6X6cm negatives that had hung around in my desk drawer for ten years. These two were shot on Kodak Portra 400NC in my Mamiyaflex.

Here, using film that expired six months before I used it, in a camera that used to be the latest technology, I'm looking across what used to be the railway track, over the grounds of what used to be Chester Dawe's, past what was the Trans-Canada Highway, to where the Newfoundland Hardwoods plant used to be. I'm obviously a geezer. Lomo CN800 film, shot at around 200, in the Yashica A. Taken in August 2013 and finally developed & scanned in March 2015.

Another picture from the roll of expired Lomo CN800 film. Its expiry date was Dec 2012, so it was only eight or nine months out-of-date when I took this picture (with the Yashica A) in August 2013. But I left it around for eighteen months before getting it developed. A nice blotchy texture ensued. Right now, in mid-March with fifteen-degree temperatures below freezing, I look wistful at this picture.

This is another shot from that 120 roll of Lomo CN800 that sat around for 18 months steeping in its own teapot. There is a highway up above me to the right here. that big corrugated tube has a river. A second one is behind me to the right; a railway used to go through that one but today it's just a walkers' and bicyclists' path. I was on my bicycle the day I took the picture in August 2013. It was in the Yashica A. "A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun. . ."

This was Lomo CN800 film in my Yashica A camera. I accidentally over-exposed it by 2 stops (thinking it was a 160-speed film). The film sat in a bag with the camera for eighteen months until I had it developed this week. I don't know what caused the backing paper marks, nor really the blotchiness, but I like the overall effect.

There's a brain worm on the Internet; it makes people post anthropomorphic pictures of cats. I have it. And I have this complaisant cat.

I taught N when she was a first-year student and several more times after that, including when she was a graduate student. She finished her MA about three years ago and has been working in her field ever since. She came back to our department a couple of weeks ago and gave a talk to current students. I caught her on her way back to work afterwards. This was 2007-expired Life Brand 800 film in my Kodak Retina I.

I was scanning some older negatives and found this one of Gary in my office in September or October of 2002. He looks pretty serious, but he might have just been just pissed off -- he comes in to see me about something and I point a camera at hm. Jeez. Kodak CN400 film in my Canonet. All that vignettey & framing stuff, plus some dodging & burning, done in Paint Shop Pro this morning.

L came by to get the reports on the examination of her thesis. She not only passed but -- unlike most theses -- she got raves and had to change only a few commas. She was more than a little happy about it. Another shot from the light-leaky Pen D3 (I have another D3 that seems intact and will start using it again), but this picture was free of leaks. I was using Fuji 800 film of unknown vintage, given to me by a friend who had stopped using film over twenty years ago.