Climbing the Dunes
Labor Day weekend. South Haven, Michigan. Climbing the dunes along Lake Michigan.
So long, summertime.
Shot with Canon EOS M and 22mm f/2.
Brooklyn, Michigan
I moved around a lot as a kid, but I call Brooklyn, Michigan, my hometown. It’s the place I lived the longest, went to school the longest, and really grew up.
Brooklyn is a small village in southern Jackson County – the home of Michigan International Speedway, the Irish Hills, and Hometown Pizza, my first jobby-job through high school and even into college when I came home for breaks.
My family still lives in Brooklyn, but not in town, so I don’t get to see the village square every day like I used to. That’s why I took a hot August night, grabbed some pizza at Hometown, and hit Main Street for a photo walk using my trusty Canon 5D and 40mm f/2.8 lens.
Canon + Kodak Film Styles
Fujifilm X cameras are known for their film simulations. Fuji owns and creates several film stocks, so it only makes sense that they build those film emulations into their family of cameras.
As a Kodak film user, however, there’s nothing like Fuji’s film emulations for other cameras – like my own, preferred Canon lineup.
That’s why it was great to learn that Canon’s own Picture Style options can be adapted to loosely match other film stocks out there. With that, I learned Thomas Fransson had created a series of Kodak film styles for Canon cameras. In this case, I downloaded Thomas’s Crowdak film simulation and applied it to a Canon M6 with an EF-M 28mm lense for a quick test.
Some initial thoughts:
- With lots of greens and blues on my quick walk during my lunch hour, it was hard to see how the film simulation captured other colors and lighting conditions
- Overall, very muted colors – more than I’m used to with my own style
- Contrast was almost perfect for my style of shooting
I’m eager to try out Thomas’s other film styles, and several more from Cinescopophilia.
Flickr Staff Favorites Feature
Many thanks to the editors at Flickr for selecting one of my Hot Air Jubilee photos for their selection of “Flickr Through the Years – Flickr Staff Favorites” blog post.
Jackson’s local Hot Air Jubilee is one of my favorite annual events to photograph, and it’s easy to understand why: summer, beautiful Ella Sharp Park, and all those colors.
All these years later, I continue to find value and appreciation in Flickr.
Things That Grow
It’s our first year with a garden at the new house, and now tomatoes, peppers, and even strawberries are ripe and ready to pick.
This gave me a chance to try out my new Canon EF-M 28mm f/3.5 macro – part of my summer project to round out my Canon M system. This lens also gives me a 40mm field of view (my favorite!) on the APS-C sensor.
Colors here, colors there – a rainbow everywhere.
School’s almost in session, summer is sliding into fall, so I’m getting up and close to the things that grow while I still can.
A few more:
Jackson County Fair
Even though I feel like it’s the same-ol’, same-ol’ each year, our local county fair never disappoints.
Shot on a mixture of EF-M 22mm and 32mm, with the Canon M200.
Burlington, Ontario
More from Burlington, Ontario – this time, turning my back to Lake Ontario and grabbing the cityscape.
Burlington is a nice town. You could tell from the cars and the restaurants, plus all the new high-rises sprouting up, that this city had money.
And architecture to spare.
Lake Ontario
Travel for work is the best, especially when you get to explore a new place.
In this case, I traveled to Burlington, Ontario, for a sales meeting and stayed on the Lake Ontario shore, just south of Toronto.
It gave me a good excuse to test my new-ish Canon M200 and 15-45mm kit lens in the morning and late afternoon while walking around downtown Burlington.
