Continuing my 'Red Period'...
Japanese maple leaves, covering the no longer used out door tables out side one North Vancouver high school... and giving up their usefulness as they begin the preparation for winter and next years new cycle...

Bronica ETRS, 100mm F3.5 lens, Kodak Ektachrome VS100 film.

More of my 'Red Period'...

These two images were shot in the parking lot of 'Ames Tile' in Burnaby while waiting for my order, work and pleasure merge...
Both images, Bronica ETRS, 100mm F3.5 lens, Kodak Ektachrome 100VS film

The season of frenzied activity and the inevitable compressed deadlines has come and gone, leaving some time to reflect over the past year's events, thoughts and directions...

And over the next months my thoughts look to some new directions...
Perhaps high up on the list...

I have 'GAS' (a common male photography problem known as 'gear acquisition syndrome')
The continued debate, film and/ or digital? (Please see above!)
Digital Leica, (still not cheap enough, and 'cheap' being a relative word) or digital Nikon, (more practical perhaps but how much computing power and weight do you want to carry around) (Again see above!)

And last and most important and before I get lost in own 'personal gas',
Where do I want to take my photography?

First, images from this past fall, 'My red period'

All 3 images, Bronica ETRS, 100mm F3.5 lens, Kodak Ektachrome 100VS film

Nails...... they hold things together and in their time, slowly release things from their bond.....

Image 1 and 2, Bronica ETRS, 100mm F3.5 lens, HP4 film

We all know that the dinosaurs are extinct, but every once in awhile I catch their spirits rising from the seas...

Image 1; A bird of prey scans the sky looking for it's next meal, Nikon F2, 24mm F2.8, Toronto Distillery District.
Image 2: Another huge animal lifts it's head scanning for danger, Leica 111G, Canon 50mm F1.4, Vancouver Main Container Port.
Image 3; Powerless and still, I lay beneath the monster hopping to remain unnoticed, Leica M6, 21mm F3.5 Voigtlander, Giant Coal Loader, Neptune Terminals, North Vancouver.