First Aid

Summer Signs

 

To me grapes are a sure sign of summer.

These were shot on Rollei CR200, a slide film.

It tends heavily to yellow and green, and doesn’t keep well so this roll required pretty significant white balance correction.

As can been seen from the original scan below.

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Red White Blue

Rose Harbour Dawn

Display

Last night I came home to an email from the Canadian Film Lab to tell me that my Haida Gwaii film was processed. This mean I spent too much time downloading the ten rolls and starting to go through them to see how they came out, and how the Lab handled them. And now it is 1:30 in the morning and I am nowhere near finished my first look.

This image from the Village of Queen Charlotte is one that popped out at me. I wish the village had not incorporated, because under the rules for incorporation, it can no longer be called Queen Charlotte City, the name it held for a century. According to the rules it is not big enough to be a city, or even a town. But other than a name change, nothing else is outwardly different.

I have not used Canadian Film Lab before, but thought I (more…)

Not Dog

Pine Halo

 

This nun is in the Ross Bay Cemetery, I assume she is a saint, but perhaps one of you will know better.

These figures don’t normally interest me enough to use film on them.

But this one caught my eye a week or two ago.

It seemed to need black and white conversion, perhaps because the original had almost no colour in it anyway.

 

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