It’s not all that often I have a specific plan what I’d like to make photos of and this past Wednesday was not exception. I just knew that the sun was out and I would like to keep the good times with slide film rolling while it was. Otherwise, I just like to make a few starter photos of something that looks interesting and somewhere down the line, I am bound to find something that I get fixated on.

Well, usually.

As luck would have it, one of my traditional standards — archival photos made by enthusiastic amateurs — came to mind as I was slowly walking around an extended (but still cautiously tight as I heal) loop around Centretown.

Aside from some of the familiar vistas (i.e. photo four above, looking north up Bay from Cooper), the colour shift in the film, which expired in early 2022 made me think archival and it made me think of some sights that might have been of some interest in the 1970s or 1980s: towers rising, apartments that might be in need of a little sprucing up, or Victwardian rows recently renovated by young families choosing downtown instead of the suburban areas they were raised in.

I think in this case I achieved what I was looking to. Between the expired film, the rendering of the Konica’s lens (assembled in 1956), and even my less-than-ideal compositions, I experienced the same sort of feel I would when reviewing a collection of slides for the first time in an archive when I pulled the strip of film from its reel.

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