Goodbye 2015
mjuii, in Nanaimo for a conference
Goodbye 2015! This post is a retrospective of some favourite shots from my 2015 52 Rolls project. I hope you don’t mind having them run by you again, but since many were not directly visible in Burnt Embers reblogs from 52Rolls.net some will likely be new to you. Many others were posted directly on this blog, and some of those are the best from these rolls of film. I have inserted a few of those shots below as well, to round out the set.
I had a lot of fun with my 52 Rolls project this year (you can see all my 52 Rolls posts here). I really appreciate all the comments and likes and other support from my own followers and the 52Rolls.net community and I have really enjoyed seeing everyone’s photos this year.
As I write this, on Christmas Eve, I am still uncertain about whether to take part fully in a 2016 (more…)
Beach Detritus
Zooming in on wave tracks one spots all kinds of natural detritus making up the sediment.
This is the same spot as Grey Tracks and is part of my sandscape series from last summer.
Winter Solstice Party
From the 52 Rolls project, here is the rest of my 52nd roll for 2015. These are the solstice party shots missing from my post (http://wp.me/p1R4lY-7jR) of earlier today that has the rest of this roll of film.
Every year for a couple of decades now we have gone to a friend’s house for her winter solstice party. The whole place is lit only with candles.
I had an Olympus XA2 in my coat pocket loaded with a no-name 400 speed film, probably from Kodak. I decided I might as well try to get some shots.
I had forgotten that the XA2’s minimum shutter speed is 2 seconds (I had confused it with the 10 seconds for the XA), so quite a few were underexposed. The noise of the party meant I could not really hear the shutter even though the camera was hand-held. The picture above was half exposed when I moved the camera, thinking the exposure was complete and caught some candle light.
The piano shot below is one that could have done with a few more f-stops of light beyond what the camera is capable…
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Not Solstice Shots
This roll is from an Olympus XA2 that has been in my pocket for a couple of weeks. Included here are a couple of pubs, a coffee shop and parts of a trip a few hundred kilometers north to visit my daughter and her family. Click through to see 14 more photos.
The rest of this roll can be found at Winter Solstice Party as part of my 52 Rolls project – that is where the solstice photos can be found.
Observatory Backside
A sunny post from June to help balance the overcast and short days of late December.
This is the back side of the Gonzales Hill Observatory.
Split Rail Fence
This is the companion post to yesterday’s Shadow Play post (http://wp.me/p1R4lY-7jc) – it has the rest of that roll of film. I am particularly satisfied with the first and third photos (you need to click the 52 Rolls link to see all of them).
This is the first roll of film I put through the Olympus mjuii in 2015. It was in March and I put the exposed roll of Ilford Delta 100 in the fridge anticipating doing my own processing. Well, that has not happened so I sent it in for processing a week ago. It does seem appropriate to have a bit of spring showing up on these longest days of the years (for those of us in the northern hemisphere). This is early in the morning on waterfront walk in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, BC.
I have posted various other frames from this roll of film on my blog individual posts (here, here, here and here) and today the remainder in a group here. Mostly those are of architectural and shadow details.
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Grey Tracks
Wave track greys in a corner of Gowgaia Bay, Haida Gwaii.
This is part of my sandscape series from last summer.
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