Justfolk's photos

Forty years ago, this was a popular dancehall. I don't know how long it's been closed. Decade-expired kodak Supra 800 film shot at 200 in Konica Eye2.

This was taken on one-decade-expired Kodak Supra 800 which I shot at ISO200 in the Konica Eye2 half-frame camera. I cropt about 25% of the foreground away. And added that border. The grain you see is as is on that Supra 800.

I took 36 or 38 pictures on a roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200 in the Ricoh R1. But somehow it got jammed in the lab's developing machine and only five pictures were saved. This scan was made on the part of the film that was ruined, just before the scanner gave up. Well, truth told, I stretched the curves out and gave it some bordering, so the original scan did not look exactly like this. The picture I missed most was of an old friend of mine, resplendent in his long grey hair and big beard. He joked while I was taking it that he was tuning in to his inner magic. So I think he'll like the joke that his magic overpowered the film.

One more shot from the roll of ten-years-expired Kodak BW400CN in my BelAir X6-12 with its 35mm back and the Belairgon 90mm *glass* lens. I pulled in to the parking lot of my favourite bakery this morning and saw this. Before I got out, I took this shot from the car window. Then I went to get my loaf of whole-wheat bread. I can't remember what colour the car was. Some 1960s-like colour.

This hydro-electric plant was built at the very end of the 19th century, a very model of modern technology. It is still producing electricity. I took this picture yesterday with my Belair X6-12 camera with its 35mm back and the 90mm Belairgon lens. The lens was manufactured by the people who make Zenit cameras and lenses in Russia. It is a huge improvement on the plastic lens that came with the camera. This was on the Kodak C41 b&w film, CN400 (or whatever they call it). The film was over ten years old and -- unlike most C41 film -- stank of a vinegar-like smell before it was developed. It doesn't smell now, and it served the (photographic) purpose well.

Trinity East has many fine things about it. One is the 5-km walking trail that stats and ends right here, at the site of the old train station. The first half-km or so of the trail is along the bed of the now long-gone train track. That is the upper trail going off to the left. The trail finishes along a local road; it is the lower path going off to the left. This was Sunday past. The fog had held off out in the Bay all day and it was very warm without it. Once it started to blow in, things began to cool off. Decade-old Kodak Gold 200 in the Olympus AF-1. This is another roll from the cache of frozen film some friends gave me earlier this year. They had stopped using film ten years ago.

Another short street in St. John's. This one is called College Square. About a hundred years ago, any dead-end street in St John's was as likely to be called a "Square" as anything else. Again, Fuji Pro400H in the Belair X6-12 with its plastic 58mm lens. Note the wide-angle distortion, especially apparent in the telephone pole at right. . 13714

Knight Street is, metaphorically, a hop, skip and a jump from Stewart Ave. It's maybe a hundred yards distant. I went to school in the brick building you can just barely see here at the end of Knight Street. That was for eight years in the 1950s and '60s. I still have dreams about the area. This was one morning about three weeks ago. Again, this was shot on Fuji Pro400H film in the Belair X6-12 camera with its 58mm lens, taking a 53x105mm image. You can easily see the wide-angle distortion on the right and left, but it's rather pleasant, I think.

"Avenues" are usually longer streets than this one. But the word "avenue" in these parts is also used as a generic noun meaning the driveway into a church. I suspect that is how Stewart Ave. got its name as there is a church there at the end, Cochrane Street United Church. This picture was taken in my newer Belair X6-12 camera -- I sent back the first one for poor infinity focus and the people at Lomographic sent this one with some alacrity. I took the picture with the plastic 58mm lens which it is not bad for what it is. I have since gotten the new Belairgon 90mm glass lens and I look forward to using it. I have not done so yet. The negative is nominally 6x12 cm; it is actually 53x105mm. The film here was fairly old Fuji Pro400H film, a rather nicely understated C41 film. It was old but I had kept it most of its life in the freezer. I haven't done a very good job of scanning it and the tones were a bit compressed in the original scan, opened up a bit in processing. That is opposite to what I think is a better work pattern: scan wide & cut down the curves later. . 13714

Two months ago, it was an impromptu birthday party for my mernlaw who, at age 91, has the right not to dress for the occasion. Her daughter is putting a new chain & pendant around her neck. About 40% of the negative from an expired roll of Polaroid 200 film shot in the Ricoh R1. Dolled and dusted up on the sides to reduce the sight of kitchen construction at my sternlaw's house. The film was part of a batch given me by friends who stopped using film about ten years ago, so it was at least that old, though they kept it in their fridge.

I was riding my bicycle, something that leads to a lot more pictures than driving a car. I used my Ricoh R1 for this shot, while the date code was accidentally turned on; I cloned it out of the picture. Cloning was pretty easy to do since it was on the asphalt pavement. Probably Fuji film, SDM EasyPix 200. 1379

This is the Ferryland lighthouse, the site of a very good picnic business. But this day -- a Monday -- was their weekly day of rest, resto rest, so to speak, so we were the only ones nearby. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Canon Demi.

On the left is a shot I took on Tri-X film in my Canonet in 2000. I was peering through a window of the then-delapidated and uncared-for lighthouse at Ferryland. I cannot remember whether there was glass in the window; probably not, given the clarity of the image. I do remember jamming the camera against the window frame as the shot was something like two seconds long. In the following years the lighthouse became -- and still is -- the site of a successful picnic/restaurant business and I go there to visit from time to time. On Monday two weeks ago, I was there again. I peered through the same window and took the picture on the right. This was on ColorPlus 200 film in my Canon Demi. The window was actually somewhat less clear this time around, probably because of the humid weather. The picture is grainer, being a half-frame shot on colour film converted to b&w. I placed the camera's lens ring on the glass this time and got a picture in about a half second. The restaurant closes on Mondays, by the way, so -- despite the successful business there -- there was no one on the lighthouse peninsula but my wife and me. Very quiet. 0055 1374

Parts of three pictures taken on Kodak ColorPlus 200 film in the Ricoh R1. I accidentally turned on the date-stamp mode while it sat on a shelf and it ticked for nearly three months to get to that date.

I took 190 pictures at the Waterboys' concert the other night and I haven't had a whole lot of time to go through them all. But I've been dabbling at them. Here's one I converted into b&w and then played with its local contrast. It's a small fragment of the original image, about 15%, I think, and reduced in file size, too, for emailing. There was a lot of jamming.

That's their name, The Fortunate Ones -- Andrew James O'Brien (who writes & sings) and his partner & back-up band, Catherine Allen. They opened for The Waterboys the other night. AJO'B reminds me of the young Paul Simon in his voice and his songs. CA reminds me of no one and has a great sense of simple, deliciously weird harmonies. Taken with the Fuji Finepix X100, this wasn't a bad picture in colour. Here, I have filtered out some of the colours to get a slightly sharper b&w picture.

I can't remember which W B Yeats poem, set to music by Mike Scott, this was during last night's Waterboys concert. I think it was Yeats's Second Coming. That is a three-faced mask that Scott is wearing, and beaked masks on Steve Wickham (violin) and the guitarist/keyboardist whose name I didn't catch.

I have been pretty lucky lately to get to a few really excellent concerts, and be able to walk home from them afterwards. This was last night when Mike Scott's Waterboys played. I took 190 pictures (!) with my X100 which is a very good concert camera; in silent mode with manual everything and with the back screen turned off it is (I hope) totally undistracting to my neighbours -- and I get decent pictures. Before the show, I heard a woman right behind me say to her partner that they were 21 metres from the stage; thus I suppose our row was 20 metres. But I thought we were considerably closer than that and my camera told me I was focussing at about 12 metres. Not bad distance for a widish-angled lens like the X100's. Of course, I still had to crop considerably. This is also considerably down-sized for emailing. This was the last shot I took, near the end of the encore.