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East of the Don Proves Magnetic
Although it wasn’t always this way, since I began to visit Toronto more often – around 2014 – I’ve really developed a fondness for the city east of the Don River. Of course, it’s not as if I had bad thoughts about it before: I had just never been. When I was young and we — read more
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An Energizing Walk on False Spring’s Penultimate Day
Monday was a positively beautiful and sunny day and I just knew that I needed to get outside after work to enjoy it. And sneakers! I got to wear sneakers! The snow is almost all gone and the melt evaporated. We’re back into the seasonal wintry mess as of today, however, with a forecast of — read more
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Birds too Early for the Worm (cont’d)
It was when we made it to Parkdale that Kathleen and I really came to feel just how early we were. The main reason for our visit was so that Kathleen could visit Paper Plus Cloth, a Japanese stationery store, and unfortunately, we ended up passing around 11:15, which was an entire 45 minutes before — read more
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The Cherry on Top: An Unsuccessful Reset
So after a week of my photographic expectations (hopes?) not being met (fulfilled?), I decided on Sunday morning ahead of our little errands that I would get myself back to basics and choose a combination that I am familiar enough with: T-Max 400 that I would push two stops in HC-110. No new developer. No — read more
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Charlotte’s Solo Saturday Adventure
Since Kathleen had other (very exciting) plans this Saturday, the adventure was mine alone. Trying to be at least somewhat fiscally responsible in light of a trip to Toronto I will be taking next month, I decided that I would pay visit to 613flea in the Aberdeen Pavilion to search for some novelty earrings! In — read more
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A Partial Recovery, Thanks to Something New
After Wednesday’s disappointing-to-me roll, rather than fall back on something familiar on Thursday, I decided to try something new. Thanks to a review written by Alex Luyckx earlier in the summer, I became interested in trying out FX-37, a developer that promises to “provide the highest acutance for T-grained film stocks like Kodak, T-Max, Ilford — read more