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photographs

I love photography. I try to take as many photographs as I can and share the decent ones with you on this site. I shoot film, mostly black-and-white that I develop myself at home, and print in my makeshift darkroom. There have been five hundred and sixty-three photos posted so far.

Galleries

These are photos grouped by a theme, mostly by place and time.

Halifax at Night, February/March 2008: twenty-two photographs.
Wards Falls, Nova Scotia, August 2007: nine photographs.
Hixon Falls, British Columbia, September 2006: twelve photographs.
Wells Gray Park, British Columbia, July 2006: twenty-four photographs.
North Pacific Cannery, British Columbia, May 2006: ten photographs.
Livingstone Springs, British Columbia, January 2006: twenty-nine photographs.
Tofino, British Columbia, March 2005: twenty-nine photographsy.
Yukon Territory, August 2003: forty photographs.
Berg Lake Trail, British Columbia, June 2002: fifteen photographs.

Most Popular

These are the up-to-the-second most popular photos around these parts. I have no idea why.

Keywords/Tags

You can browse groups of photos by filtering the entire archive using keywords/tags. You can browse these on the keyword/tag page or look for them below each photo when viewing them on their own pages. The advanced tag search page allows you to combine multiple tags in a single search.

Daily Photographs

Every-other-daily photographs of varying quality, in reverse chronological order and mostly of the black and white variety.

There is an Atom feed of the daily photographs.
There is a Mac OS X Dashboard widget of the daily photographs.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you might want to try a random photo, or peruse the complete list.

This Year, So Far

There aren’t any photos this year. How strange.

Previous Years, All Finished

Who knows where 2008 will take us. Time will tell.
Do you read me 2007? We are go for takeoff.
Hm, perhaps 2006 will be as fine a year as the previous. Perhaps.
Ah, 2005 was a fine year. Yes it was.

Prints

Most photographs are available for purchase. I make black and white prints myself in my darkroom and are silver gelatin not inkjet. Colour photos are taken to a local lab and printed digitally.

Print inquiries can be .

Copyright

All photographs, words and graphics on this website and related subdomains are Copyright © 1996-2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved. If you would like to purchase/use/license a photograph for any purpose, your enquiries can be and we’ll come to terms on a licence for your purposes.

Equipment

Just so you know, when it comes to making a decent photograph what you hold in your hand isn’t nearly as important as what’s between your ears. Having said that, the following is what I use. Most gear was purchased used.

Cameras

Mamiya C33 medium format TLR, Bronica SQ-A medium format SLR, Contax G1 35mm rangefinder, Zero Image 6x6 pinhole, Holga, Polaroid ProPack.

Lenses

I have a 55mm, 80mm and 135mm for the Mamiya C33. The Bronica has an 80mm Zenzanon-S. The Contax G1 has a 45mm/f2 Zeiss T* Planar that is magically delicious.

Tripod

Slik Pro 500DX with a handful of quick shoes.

Meter

Gossen Lunasix 3. Measures down into really low light.

Filters

52mm thread: Hoya Yellow #8, Tiffen Deep Yellow #21, Tiffen Green #11, Hoya Red #25, Tiffen ND 0.3, Tiffen ND 0.6.

67mm thread: Tiffen Yellow #8, Tiffen Deep Yellow #21, Tiffen Green #11, Tiffen Red #25, Tiffen ND 0.3, Tiffen ND 0.6.

Enlarger

Saunders/LPL C6600 Condenser with Saunders 50/3.5 and Meopta Anaret S 80/4.5 lenses. Apparently the enlarger began its life in a Bridgewater, NS photo lab.

Darkroom stuff

Ilford EM10 enlarging exposure meter, Ilford Multigrade filters, Saunders 4 blade 14x17 adjustable easel, Gralab 505 digital timer with foot pedal, 4 8x10 trays, 3 11x14 trays, tongs, canned air, red safelight.

Film

For black and white it’s mostly Fuji Neopan (400) and Acros (100). They both have fantastic grain, beautiful tone, work really well in XTOL, nice clear bases and dry flat. There’s a bunch of other B&W in the fridge: Efke R50, Maco IR820, Kodak 320TXP and 400TX, heck even some original Agfapan 100 and 400.

For colour, it’s Kodak Portra 160NC. I typically shoot film at box speed (or close to it).

Film Chemicals

Developer is mostly Kodak XTOL mixed one-shot in various dilutions. If I run out it’s Kodak D76 or HC-110. Kodak Stop Bath. Kodak Fixer. Kodak Hypo-Clearing Agent. Kodak Photo-Flo.

Paper

Ilford MGIV resin-coated in various surfaces and sizes. Oriental variable-contrast, double-weight, fibre-based.

Paper Chemicals

Kodak Dektol. Ilford Selenium Toner. Kodak Stop bath. Kodak Fixer.

Miscellaneous

2 6x6 Bronica SQ-i film backs, Bronica Speed Grip, Lowepro Primus AW backpack for hiking, Crumpler 4- and 7-Million Dollar Home shoulder bags for not-hiking, Lowepro and Tiffen filter wallets, Lowepro film case, Lowepro lens cases, cable releases, plastic 120 film containers, tape, lens cleaners/duster, Leatherman multitool, rainproof paper, pencils.

who am I to ask for any of it over?