Black and White

I've been doing more and more of my personal work in colour lately. I still shoot a lot of black and white though. The other morning, I loaded some black and white film into a super-cool vintage Minolta Hi-matic 7 camera and set about photographing the dogs.

Here's Felix at the window monitoring the entire neighborhood and barking at anyone who dares come within eyeshot.


Souris decided to join in to scold the wrongdoers outside.


Meanwhile, Uma in ultra-mellow French style, simply lay back and let the grey monsters fight the battles for her.


Want to know more about the Minlota Hi-matic 7? Click on the link below.

Sunday Morning

It's Sunday morning. Warm yellow sunlight is creeping through the curtains. Time to load up a camera and take some photos.


I love the light we get in February and March every year. The sun is in just the right position to give us a beautiful warm glow almost every morning.



As I snap away, Lili is in the kitchen building the perfect cup of cappucino.



I have to work today.....the final class in a lighting course I've been teaching since just after Christmas. I set up a small gallery of photos I took the other week of the particpants in the workshop. I used my 1970's vintage Canon QL17 rangefinder and Ilford XP2....a great combo! Click on the link below to see the images.

Fetch!

Well here it is, my first post to the dogblog!

Let's start with a photo shall we? Here is Uma-Chantal having a bad hair day. The style is a sort of French Mohawk, very "in" right now, non?

Every morning, I spend a few minutes with a camera taking shots of things around our home. Yesterday I shot a roll of Fuji NPH in my father's vintage Zeiss Contaflex. Among all the cameras I have (I lost count at 30+) it is my favorite. The lens is breathtakingly sharp, the camera as well fitted as a Rolex watch. All of the family photos from my youth were taken by my dad with this camera.

At this time of year, the sun shines through our dinging room window for a few minutes early in the morning. The dogs enjoy basking in its warmth. I can't resist snapping away. So as they lay there, I got down on my belly and took a few shots.

I seem to be paying a bit more attention to Uma lately as a subject for my early morning photos. As our "third child" she is somewhat underrepresented in the photo albums. I guess I am trying to right that wrong. She is not the most photogenic dog of the bunch, but what she lacks in looks, she makes up in personality.

Of course I could not resist taking a few shots of the grey monsters as they lounged around as well.