A new post after a long absence. This is a shot of the mgnificent Kiev 4 that my brother was kind enough to send me in 2006. It is a little rough around the edges, has a magnificent rangerfinder, a funky meter, and a tack-sharp Jupiter 8 lens. It is a pain in the ass to load though. The photo was taken with an Olympus OM2 equiped with a Zuiko 50mm, f1.8 lens.
Here's the final shot of the latest Zorki 1 film. The much photographed dome of the Alberta Legislature Building (Zorki 1, Industar 22, 50mm, f3.5).
OK, so this picture perhaps doesn't have the technical merits of some others posted here. However, I cannot resist the Fort Edmonton trams. These have all been restored by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society at their workshop in Fort Edmonton Park. This particular example was still running in Toronto (on the TTC lines) until the early 1990s (Zorki 1, Industar 22, 50mm, f3.5).
Here are the two horrors in a more family friendly environment than described in the previous post: the relatively new Midway at Fort Edmonton Park. So far, the Weirdo Mayor has failed to screw up Fort Edmonton (Zorki 1, Industar 22, 50mm, f3.5).
Now you would think that the Oriental Garden scheme would result in a nice location for a family outinng. If you did, you would be wrong! The problem is that Edmonton, thanks to its Goofy Mayor and the indifference of the Provincial Government, is literally awash with homeless people and aggressive panhandlers. Apparently following neoconservative ideology and handing out farm aid are far more important than providing affordable housing. Rich farmers and weirdo local politicians will always put their own interests first! Anyways, enough of the rant this shot was taken with a Zorki 1 and an Industar 22 lens (50mm, f3.5).
As is now typical for Edmonton, seemingly straighforward projects cannot be completed on a reasonable timescale. This Pagoda is a prime example. Construction started in early 2006, and it is now mid 2007 and it is still not finished. Also, the surrounding park (next to the Shaw Conference Center) is an absolute disgrace - filled as it is with poorly maintained gardens (lovely dandelions though!), garbage, and dug-up walkways. All this centrally located in Alberta's capital city! (Zorki 1, Industar 22, 50mm, f3.5).
I was wondering what would happen if I used some Fuji NPS160 film in my Zorki 1 dating from 1955 with its Industar 22 from 1961. This is the result. Will today's plastic technoblobs even be functioning in 50 years? I doubt it (Zorki 1, Industar 22, 50mm, f3.5).
The John Walter Museum is like a mini-Fort Edmonton, and is located next to the Kinsmen Sports Center in Edmonton's River Valley (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
It was +32 Celsius today, so naturally my thoughts turn to winter. Here is a shot taken on Boxing Day, 2006, of the frozen North Saskatchewan River (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
I have not been contributing recently, but plan to make up for this with the latest batches of negatives. Here's a shot of Edmonton's centrally-located greenhouse gas emitting monstrosity - the Epcor Power Plant (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
Back the present, so to speak, I got a little Sekonic meter for Xmas and am hoping that it improves my FSU camera shots. Here's on taken of my garage roof showing the blanket of snow slowly sliding off the roof on a sort of glacial timeframe (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
Here's a real blast from the past! This guy is my maternal grandfather exhibiting the very English habit of feeding sugar lumps to a horse. It was taken around 1980 (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
Here's a shot taken from outside the remains of the moat surrounding the quaint Bavarian town of Dinkelsbühl during a winter visit sometime around 1980. Dinkelsbühl was always a little less touristy than Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm f2.0).
Another memory of a childhood vacation. Here is a shot of Gossau, a high-altitude village located in the Aurstrian Salzkammergut (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
Here's another old shot from the 1970s. A train trundling along the bottom of the valley in Bad Goisern in the Austrian Salzkammergut. As a child, we would foolishly, and possibly illegally, place aluminum 1 groschen coins (1/100 of an Austrian Schilling) on the tracks ahead of the locomotives (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
Here's a shot taken looking back down the trail above the Rudolfsturm near Hallstat in the Austrian Salzkammergut in the late 1970s. The guy lying in the snow is my Dad (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
I am having to do some rummaging in the vault to find photographs to post. This one was taken during a vacation in Bavaria in the late 1970s, but I cannot remember where it was taken. Check out the funky multi-storey attics! (Zorki 4K, Jupiter 8, 50mm, f2.0).
This shot was taken in November before the cold weather and snow hit (Zenit B, Helios 44-2 58mm, f2.0).
The major drawback of the Zenit B is that you have to stop down the lens manually. On the other hand, this forces a depth of field preview that is often overlooked on more sophisticated cameras (Zenit B, Helios 44-2 58mm, f2.0).
