Lambpoon's Blog

Suburban Playgrounds

lambpoon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:32:00 +0000

Signal towers, silhouettes and freight bridges

Toronto in film

lambpoon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:09:51 +0000

These are some photos from Toronto in November. Taken on a Leica CL with Kodak professional 100 film.

Reflective

Viking

There was a light rain, which turned the world pastel.

Lanterns, seen from above.

A light lunch of cookie.

Raj-head.

Concrete jungle

Birds on a wire

Fall-times

Voiceworks!

lambpoon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:53:26 +0000

A couple of my photos have been published in the Technicolour edition of Voiceworks that just came out. It’s a great publication of literature and art, all from people under the age of 25. If you see a copy, you won’t regret buying it (it’s only $8. You can go without lunch for one day)

Here’s a link to the website.

The survivors

lambpoon — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:05:58 +0000

Here in Montreal we live above a photo lab. I thought I’d give them a try. They destroyed four of the eight rolls I gave them. Safe to say I’m not going back to them again.

Here are some shots that survived. Most of them were taken on a beautiful Leica M7 that I baby-sat for a couple of weeks. It is such an amazing camera, especially paired with the Summicron 50mm f/2 lens. Regrettably some photos taken with it were lost (R.I.P), but I’m really happy with how the following came out.

The ones at the end with the heavy vignette were taken by pairing a Canon EOS 300 film camera with the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 crop-sensor lens, which has a smaller image circle than can fit on the film. I really like the effect.

September walk

lambpoon — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:39:39 +0000

These are some street shots taken around downtown and old Montreal, from about a month ago. I felt the walk was too long to let the pictures sit on my hard-drive…

Autumn park

lambpoon — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:27:46 +0000

We took a walk to a nearby park

I chased this little guy round the tree trunck

But then it ran away…

Climbing Saint-Hilaire

lambpoon — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:52:12 +0000

A suggestion to climb a mountain on the Monday after Canadian Thanksgiving. Promised fire-red leaves and cold air and goat’s cheese. Leaves everywhere, carpeting the trail which was also dotted with mud and slack earth so we had to step carefully. All the metal-stick wielding professional climbers passed us but we had to stop and look at tiny grey mushrooms growing out of stumps anyway, at the blanketing russet and difference between the blue light you walk into and the orange light you turn and notice you have walked out of. A tiny flat space at the top of the mountain covered in picnics, the inescapable smell of pot that did not seem to perturb the park ranger. We had artichokes dipped in a mixture of olive oil, vinegar, salt, and curry powder, cheese, tiny carrots, and a thimbleful of cider (the larger bottle went unopened as no-one had remembered to bring a corkscrew) each. At the moment, I think leaves are more beautiful and individual than snowflakes are famed to be. But that might change in a couple of months. It’s funny, you ask someone in Montreal when it will snow and get a different response every time. But I guess if I kept asking — asked strangers and neighbours in shirt-sleeves leaning out of windows, asked bus drivers and chemistry professors and sleepless customers in bagel stores — I would get predictions in between the other predictions. No-one is going to say, it will snow for the first time in January. And then I will get a calender and write everyone’s name on the date they think the world will turn white.

The above photos were taken by Gwen. Merci Gwen!

Aeroplaneslee!

Mont-Royal

lambpoon — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:35:48 +0000

My brother Nik visited this week, so we decided to climb up The Mountain! (It’s really not that big, hardly Mont-Royal) It’s just getting into the thick of Autumn here, and the leaves are amazing.

I Suck At Street Photography (Montreal Edition)

lambpoon — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:55:02 +0000

I really am not very good at it.

DANGER

lambpoon — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:32:48 +0000

One must be careful around Montreal.