1953 Maserati 250F, a photo essay.

This 1953 Maserati 250F was at the Legends of racing week end at the Mont-Tremblant circuit in Quebec. Funny thing happened there, I asked what had to be done in order to be able to shoot over the wire. I observed a few photographers with orange vest inside the track perimeter and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask how it would be possible to do the same. The answer I got was get a bigger and better camera while pointing at my G12 from a track official! Turns out that someone else with more brains told me you had to be registered media.

So I put away my G12, pulled out the most ordinary camera in my bag, a Nikon Coolpix S8100, found a small gap in the fence and shot this:

Never insult a man's gear! Anyways, I took some detail shots of the car with the G12 and my medium format 1939 Voigtlander Brillant. Enjoy.

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Gerry

St-Patricks Day Parade in Montreal

I went out last Sunday to attend the annual Montreal St-Patrick's Day parade bit my interest was not with the parade itself but more the people attending it.

I felt it was a perfect occasion to practice some great street photography and since the crowd would be mostly cooperative while in a party mood, I decided to challenge myself. I left the digital camera at home and only brought 2 film cameras with me. The 1939 Voigtlander Brillant TLR and a 1974 Olympus Trip 35. I used a roll of 36 shots in the trip and one roll of 12 shots in the Brillant.

Here are some of the shots that I took that day. First the Brillant.

And the Olympus

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Gerry :)

I can process my own film!

My first attempt at processing film was a success! I was so excited to pull this off that I couldn't wait for the film to dry in order to digitize it. I pulled out the G12, set it on macro and put a white piece of cardboard behind the negative while it is still hung up to dry in the shower.

I inverted the color of the image in Gimp and here is the result. Not perfect but the negative was moving and my sole hand holding the camera was shacking with excitement! Can't wait to do the proper scan to see how well they turned out.

Processing film is not that hard and very rewarding. I smell a future post on this once I get the hang of it. The pictures were taken with my 1939 Voigtlander Brillant.

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Gerry :)