With Christmas, injury and general lack of time over the past couple months I’ve not had much opportunity to shoot for myself. That all changed the other day when I decided to load some 35mm into my Horizon 202 and the ole’ Nikon F. The Horizon is the pano camera, I’m sure you’ll recall and the Nikon is just a regular, albeit one of the first SLR cameras, and on it I’d mounted the speedy 85mm 1.4.

The lack of a meter (the thing which tells you what your settings need to be) in either of these cameras makes life interesting. It makes putting rolls through the developer at the end of the day fun, like gambling! You’re hoping they all come out, but there’s always the chance you got it wrong and you’ll get nothing but over/under exposed negatives. Naturally, I brought along my D3 for when it got too dark for film but I only used it once the lights came on.

Here are the results:

The Portuguese fishing vessel Brites docked in St. John’s Harbour, some of the guys on the deck are speaking to a women on the docks. Shot with the Horizon 202:

Here’s a photo of one of the crewmen, shot with my Nikon D3 a few hours later (it was night time by now).

I then wander up to Water Street where these two visitors (with their dog, his paw is just visible by the man on the right right boot) were begging for change. I didn’t get names, but they one was from Labrador and the other from British Columbia. I bought them a cookie at Hava Java. My last ever purchase at Hava Java’s old location :( This photo above is with the Horizon 202, the one below is from the Nikon F w/85mm 1.4. Don’t remember what the ap/ss was. Sorry. The subtle juxtaposition of young man, begging on the streets as a homeless traveler versus a family walking their little girl out of focus in the background was intentional. I’d initially shot one going the other direction and noticed them behind me so I ran around the other side of my subject and recomposed.

Same set up again, Nikon F, 85mm 1.4

Shoot Harper? Harsh I know, but admit it, we're all thinking it.

From there I made tracks up near City Hall and waited for 20 minutes before someone finally walked up these stairs for scale.

There is nothing particularly special about either of these two photos (above, below) but I like them none the less.

This man had no issue with my taking his picture. He had an excellent ring on, which was most certainly belonging to some institution or group. I’d love to know what it was. Was a square, shape with black/white background halved diagonally and in the top left it seemed to have a B or a D in calligraphy.

Convenience store on Queen's Road

Even the shop clerks have more style these days. When I worked retail, you would of been fired to not wear uniform, wear a hat, wear a scarf. Let alone stop working for a minute to have your picture taken.

Kids these days. (I am of course just joking).

I made my way back downtown to test out some new techniques with the Horizon panoramic camera. This is from atop Atlantic Place parking garage, looking down at Bairds Cove.

That’s it for now. There are a couple more from this days shooting on another roll that isn’t finished yet. So you’ll see those soon!

Here’s a good friend, Khris Stamp. As you can see, he’s quite good at the stunt-boarding.