Justfolk's photos

I'm not sure what I did to get this picture but it is, what do they say?, SOOC, straight out of the camera. Mind you, the camera it came from is the Olympus E-P2 and I suspect I was testing its "Art" functions. This image includes the cheap leather jacket that normally is wrapped around the body of my Fujifilm X100 (foreground, on the left); the bare bottom of my Life-O-Rama III camera (on the right); and, in the background, the uncovered top (topless, you might say) of my Belair X6-12. Be still, my beating heart.

This is the site, I think, of an old weigh scale for commercial trucks. Someone left a mattress and it has aged somewhat. I didn't realise I had set the date mode on the Ricoh R1 to leave its imprint. It's on this entire roll. And I don't know where the light leak comes from. It's on a half dozen or more shots on this roll. EasyPix 200 film (probably a Fuji product).

I have some favourite rock cuts. And if I weren't more generally displeased about the construction of this road, I'd rate this with my two or three other favourite rock cuts. Shot while out and about on my bicycle this morning, in the Olympus E-P2 with its 45 mm lens.

There are two active churches and a former church to be seen here. The Catholic Basilica (two towers, top left), and the Anglican Cathedral (brown roof, below and slightly to right of the Basilica) are both active. An old Congregationalist church, more latterly a 7th Day Adventist church, is now a condominium (white building with pink roof to the right of the other two). There are bars visible, too. And the Court House. Very cheap drugstore-branded film, "EasyPix 200," a made-in-Japan (Fuji?) film of lesser quality than most other Fuji films. Shot through a winodw with the Ricoh R1 set at infinity focus in case the window glass confused the AF.

Again a ca. 50% crop, perhaps a little smaller than that. Good sharpness in background, though shot at f/2.

The X100 is a not bad digital camera for a film freak like me. It is easy to put into full manual and works well there.

Another shot with the Fujifilm X100 last night. This group is Witloof Bay, an amazing bunch of voices from Belgium. Again, about a half-size crop.

David Pomeroy doesn't sing much at home these days, but here he had just done a few barn-burning arias (O Sole Mio and Nessun Dorma among them), and here is being thanked by the conductor, Mark David. Fujifilm X100.

Now and again I use my Fujifilm X100. It really is pretty substantial. I think if I knew the members of this choir, I could easily recognise every one of them. This was last night, by the way, at the finale concert of a local choral festival. That's Bob Chilcott directing the massed adult choir (about 600 voices, I think) and the orchestra. The children's choir is to the right and they added about 250 voices to the mix later. This is a crop to about 40% of the original frame.

Shannon and I have known each other since we started university together in 1969. I almost didn't recognise him in his goggles, cap and helmet as he came down the road on his bicycle. We chatted for ten minutes and I finished the roll of Kodak ColorPlus 200 with two pictures of him. Canon Demi. . 1372

Sally was part of the Buggy Brigade this morning (previous picture). Kodak ColorPlus 200 film in Canon Demi. . 1372

This morning I ran into my co-worker who was out with her two children, her two friends, and their children, for an outing to the park. This is made up of parts of two half-frame negatives on Kodak ColorPlus 200 film in the Canon Demi. That is what they call themselves when they are out, The Buggy Brigade. 1372

Four of us came together and we were seated with two couples who hadn't known each other. It was at a local historic site, a building built around 1840 and restored to that date. At this point we were sipping beer (blue bottles) and wondering politely about the nutritive components of plastic-bottled water. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Canon Demi.

No one calls it George's Street anymore. Instead it's known worldwide as George Street. But that's only the part of this picture in the extreme right. Everything else is on Water Street, the back sides and tops of some buildings. Two shots from a window with my Canon Demi, with guessed exposure on Kodak ColorPlus 200 film.

I run into Harry from time to time and he's almost always got another sculpture to show me. This was a couple of weeks ago and we were going opposite directions downtown. I didn't buy his new piece but I expect he sold it pretty soon afterwards. Kodak ColorPlus 200 in Olympus Pen D3 . 1368

I've been looking back at some shots from my favourite folding 120 camera, the Life-o-Rama III. This is from last summer, atop Butter Cove Mountain. Though it could almost pass for a legitimate pan, you can see the guy wires for a very substantial radio tower (missing) in the middle. Several-years-expired Fuji RTPII.

Another shot from the expired-in-Nov-1990 roll of Kodak Gold 200, shot in my Instamatic 500. . 13613-004E

This birch must have been nearly toppled by a windstorm a few years ago, but its most recent growth appears to be moving upwards. Away from the slant. Excuse the orange stripes. I think they are an artefact of my poor scanning technique. Light grooving its way way somehow into the image. Since I left the stripes, I also thought I'd leave the grotty bits of wool or hair or something; one of them reminds me of a quarter rest notation. Another looks like a bass clef. Kodak VR Gold 200, expired since November 1990. Shot in the Instamatic 500. . 13613