Life on a roll of Expired Neopan 1600

Here are 22 pictures I have taken in the past month or so. These were all taken on Fuji Neopan 1600 film that has been expired since 1999. They are all fairly personal pictures, all ones that bring back certain memories, but I figured I would share them. The usual pictures I post on here give an insight into the kinds of pictures I take when I am working, and these ones give a good glimpse into my life and the people who are in it along with what I have done and where I have been in the last month. These ones are from Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver. I am hoping to continue to post more shots taken for fun on my rangefinder rather than for work in the future.

Butterfly

A shoot for the CIS Swimming Championship at the U of C in January. They are putting posters up on the C-Train and around campus and wanted something extremely horizontal, this is what we came up with.

A couple more from Remembrance Day

Barry Ashton and Don Zabel both share a laugh in the sub-zero temperature as Barry says he wished WWI had ended in July instead of November. A family closes their eyes during a moment of silence.

Tsawwassen

Some random photos from back home. A man on the beach watching the millions of sanderlings flying around in unison. My dad and I talking about me moving home and the latest news from the golf course. And my Mom and sister along with the dog, walking along the dyke a couple minutes away from our house.

Strobing Basketball

A few shots from the Dinos/SFU game this past weekend, using my Elinchrome Strobes and Ebay slaves, which was a little less than the setup Rob Galbraith of RobGalbraith.com
had around the gym, but seemed to work okay for the most part. A lot better than shooting at 1600 or 3200, that's for sure. These ones were at 100 ISO, 250th, F/2.8.

Remembrance Day.

I went out yesterday to make some pictures at the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Memorial Park Cenotaph in Calgary. It really was a great day, although a tad on the cold side for my taste. One of the chaps in the kilt was shaking quite a bit in the cold, looked like he was on the verge of coming down with hypothermia. I also met a great guy named Peter Rose who had been coming to the Cenotaph every year of his life, and whose dad was a commanding officer in WWII. It was a very special day for him, saying how remembered when the tanks rolled down the streets on Remembrance Day, I was very happy to be able to speak to him.

Here they are, with some basketball shots coming up tommorrow, time to get blogging again!
On another note as well, I am moving away from Calgary to take up the position as staff photographer at the Delta Optimist and Richmond News, two twice-weekly community newspapers back in my neck of the woods, just south of beautiful Vancouver, B.C.

Calgary, AB-20061111-.As people lay poppies on the Cenotaph at Memorial Park after the Remembrance Day Ceremony there David Rose, 60, stands to pay his respects. The park has a special meaning to him on Remembrance Day as his father was a commanding officer in World War Two, and he has come to the ceremony at the Cenotaph for the past 59 years of his life.