Roots over limestone bedrock

Roots over limestone bedrock, Rockwood Conservation Area, Ontario, 1990s

 

Rockwood Conservation Area, 1990s

p. 877a - BW negs 27/02/2026 - TMAX 100 35mm

 

Pothole, Rockwood Conservation Area

I think this is a pothole in the Rockwood Conservation Area, Ontario, 1990s

p. 877a - BW negs 27/02/2026 - TMAX 100 35mm. Rockwood has caves in it. I met a couple who crawled into a tiny entrance at the base of a cliff. I asked them if they wanted me to stick around since they didn't have anyone on the surface but they didn't say anything to me. Maybe they were C.H.U.D.s.

 

Aztec Camera?

 Roddy Frame, co-founder of the 80s pop band Aztec Camera, said in a Top of the Pops X post  "It was in one of my deep thinking, psychedelic periods when I was about 15… because the bands we were listening to had names like The 13th Floor Elevators and all that ridiculous crap, we came up with the name Aztec Camera.".

Leica released an "Aztec" limited edition presentation case and attache case for its R-3 and R-3 MOT cameras in 1979, which would have been around when Frame was 15.  The only thing particularly Aztec about them were they were made from amatl wood, the bark of which the Aztec used to make paper.

Leica ad via eBay

Steve Hibbert

 Sad to hear Steve Hibbert died suddenly. He's best known as the Gimp in Pulp Fiction - he friended me after our mutual friend Krystal died and I enjoyed reading his posts. He liked posting art by painters who lived in California where he had lived, like this painting by, as Steve put it,  "Laguna Beach's own Edgar Payne" :

 (Edgar Alwin Payne (1883 - 1947), Red Mesa, Monument Valley, Utah, 1935, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, purchased with funds from the Phyllis C. Wattis Endowment for Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum #2008.14.1)

Cornwall Square, 1989 or 1990

Taken from pedestrian bridge, 

                                                          Ilford HP5, 120 film, 06/06/2026 879a
 

Miniature Horse, 1990s

One of a group of miniature horses, at a fair I think in Fergus, c.1998

p. 877a - BW negs 27/02/2026 - TMAX 100 35mm

 

Harris Woolen Mill Ruins, Rockwood Conservation Area, Ontario Infrared, c. 1998

The tent was for a wedding. Konica Infrared 750nm film made the sky dark and the tree leaves white.

 

Kathleen, Elora, c. 1999

Kathleen, 1999ish, Elora, Ontario, TMAX 100, Mamiya c220

 

Misty Mountain Ridge

I stopped to take a picture of this ridge that wasn't there when I drove by an hour before. It's really smoke from burning brush that someone is clearing that's trapped under an inversion, with warmer air on top making a kind of lid for the smoke beneath.

 

Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Infrared, c. 1998

Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, c. 1998, Konica Infrared 750nm 35mm. Grass and leaves are light and sky is dark because it's infrared. 

 

Chinese restaurant or bar, c. 1993

The image reminds me of the bar scene in the Kubrick move The Shining. I think this was a Chinese restaurant in Toronto, maybe on Spadina, sometime around 1993. Ilford HP5+ film, developed after about 30 years. 

 

Your own infrared Jesus

♫ Your own infrared Jesus ♫ (With apologies to Depeche Mode)

This is another old film I just had developed at Boréalis Laboratoire Photo, in Montreal, a lab that still develops, scans and prints film. They did a good job, even though this film is more than 30 years old. It's Konica Infrared 750 nm, which had been stored at room temperature since it was taken, so having anything on it is surprising! Probably Mississauga, early 1990s. As I remember the guy didn't think he was Jesus but was just trying to spread his message. Note how the grass is white and the sky is dark, since the film is 'seeing' in a wavelength of light that is not visible to people. The focus point is different from visible light because it has a longer wavelength, so 'Jesus' is a little blurry.