Bill Smith's Photography

 I put my Canon L Series FDn 20-35 F3.5 Zoon to work on this photo walk, a fun lens to work with. I did have some distortion at 20mm but that can be easily fixed in Lightroom. Outside that, it's an amazing wide zoom lens and lightens the load in my camera bag. The only other L Series FDn lens I own is the 100-300 F5.6 Telephoto zoom, thta I really must shoot with more, but I ...

 My friend Art Liem, known him for years, first through the Analog Photography Users Group and more recently with the Toronto Film Shooters Facebook Group, long floated an idea of a photo walk in Scarborough starting at Kennedy Station and wandering west and exploring The Golden Mile District. It's a part of city I have not explored. 

Now I packed my Canon New F-1 AE an...

 Toronto's east end has a lot of character and in some ways is more the "real" Toronto as it hasn't been quite has gentrified compared to the west end. Riding on the Line 2 Subway line, the trains run with older rolling stock compared to Line 1. The Danforth east of Greektown is slightly more gritty. We ended the photo walk at The Wren just west of Monarch Park and Danforth, ...

 The July photo walk was east end focused starting at the Rooster Coffee House on Broadview. I love this location because one, great coffee and baked goods, and across the street on Broadview, one of hte best views of the Toronto skyline. 

I love Pro Image 100, on a sunny day it proves you don't need Kodak Ektar 100 for great colour. The camera of choice was one of my N...

I stared this roll a sunny Sunday July afternoon down in the Annex, met up with Jo-Anne for dinner at the Victory Cafe. I finished the roll two days later along Dupont/Davenport one part of town I don't shoot much. One shot I really wanted was of the Avenue Road Diner, it's one of those older Yorkville spots that might not be long for this world with the pace of redev...