Photo of the Week 2025-05-26

 

I have a photo walkabout coming up in Toronto with a couple of photog friends. We've put together a bit of a plan with locations to visit and a route we'll walk after arriving by Go-Train on a Saturday morning.

 

The discussions we've had in putting together the plan have me looking back through the image catalogue, revisiting the results from prior visits to what I know as 'The Big Smoke' but those younger may call 'the 6'. A trip to T.O. for some walkabout photography was a much more frequent event 15 years ago when anywhere from 2 to 10 of us would carpool into the downtown and spend the day shooting.

 

Lynn and I would visit our hometown now and then for an outing, Jays game or just for something to do. This week's photo comes form one such outing back in 2008 when she and I visited the Yorkville Firehall (Station No 10), where her father worked through some of his years on the TFD. He had passed, a Line of Duty related death, prior to this visit, but we met up with brother-in-law Bill who provided an 'all-access' pass for me and my camera. This allowed me to climb the hose tower steps of one of Toronto's oldest Firehalls to get a shot looking back down ...

 

' hoses hung '

DJE

 

Photo of the Week 2025-05-19

 More from the archive ....

 

' May Magnificence '

Almost 3 years ago to the day there was a wonderful sunset over Lake Huron as seen from the shore at our cottage. I captured some wonderful photos and processed and posted one or two. One even made it into the Sunset Edition of my Annual Calendar recently.

 

Last evening, I had no such luck. No colour, heavy overcast skies and a fresh breeze off the water. Hence the dive back into the archive.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2025-05-12

 

This photographic journey has taken a turn as of late, a return to be more accurate. It's had me very busy reading, researching, remembering, reacquiring ... more on the "for what" in the weeks to come but for now, it has seen me more with book in hand, out checking resources or (mostly) at the computer rather than out with camera capturing new images. 

 

So again, I found myself without recent images ready for regular posting and dove into the archives. There I found a collection of images made back in 2012 on a foggy spring afternoon when I was experimenting with a then 8 year old 8MP camera. I had picked up a Canon 1D MkIIN to see if I wanted to make the jump to their top tier camera body for the integral grip form factor (I decided not to).

 

The resulting images have been marinating on the hard drive since then and I have no explanation as to why, but you can see a select set in recent social media posts on my FB, Insta and flickr. This week's photo is my favourite of the set.

 

' woodland mistery '

My decision to process and present the bulk of these in B&W is likely a result of my recent activities. Processing is not a simple B&W conversion of a colour file but includes manipulation of the bright and dark tones for a look I find reminiscent of orthochromatic films in the past.

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2025-05-05

 

Too much time at the computer? Maybe. My wrist has been telling me to take a break from hours of daily online time as I work to reacquaint myself with film, 4x5 large format cameras, 120 roll film and my 35 mm SLRs through online resources ...

 

So I curtailed my processing time at the computer and this week I have an image that's been queued up since my last visit to Revolve Farms, when snow was still on the ground, a fire was in the wood stove and we were holding the fort while Matt & Claire had a well deserved vacation with her family.

 

' wood b' lovers '

This wooden sculpture, part of the decor around Revolve Farms, sits atop a shelf unit and catches morning light coming through a large sliding door in the kitchen area.

 

I was using a then relatively recent acquisition, the RF 85mm f/2 Macro, gaining some familiarity with it shooting details around the interior spaces.

 

DJE