Archive for May, 2007

Illinois Pictures by Canonet QL17 G-III #4

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Based on popular demand and also on personal observation, I’ve decided to lose those cheesy borders that I was using for film photos, in favor of, well, less cheesy ones. I am still keeping a distinction between photos taken with digital and those taken on film by using different borders. Well, enough border-talk…

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Illinois Pictures by Canonet QL17 G-III #3

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Starting off this series of pictures taken with the Canonet QL17 G-III are a couple of photos taken in my favorite forest preserve.

Moving on closer to Chicago’s downtown, I snapped this while waiting for my order in a Subway. Come to think of it I wasn’t even ordering; I was just waiting for a friend [...]

Canon F-1 Classic Manual SLR Mini-Review

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

I recently had the privilege of shooting 3 rolls of film with a venerable old Canon F-1 manual SLR camera. I said “privilege” for 3 reasons: first, it was lent to me by a gentleman at the office (through this I wish to thank him again for the opportunity); second, these cameras were top of [...]

Frozen Beach - Part 4

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Here’s the final installment of photos from my winter beach trip. It’s high time I switched to “warmer” subjects, since it is almost summer in the northern hemisphere.

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Frozen Beach - Part 3

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Small correction: I mentioned in my previous post that I had shot these photos at high noon. Well, it wasn’t exactly at high noon but nevertheless the light was quite harsh. ‘Nuff said.
The first photo in this series shows the silhouette of a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan.

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