Photos from my past, memories never to be forgotten
These photos were taken with my Canon F1 professional 35mm SLR, the film processed by me and the enlargements and tinting done in my darkroom. The sailboat was printed on a special silver photo paper. My work was mostly in B&W in those days except for colour slides which were store-processed. All my colour slides are back in Canada, but if I remember, transfer to colour paper leaves something to be desired.
The barns were taken at a primitive farm I used to stay at near Killaloe, Ontario, when I wanted to be alone and close to nature.
The wooded trail was a logging road (as you can see there are no older trees) near the Killaloe farm. Perhaps this is why the locals call it "bush" rather than "forest" or "woods".
The hillsides with the stone house was taken in Wales.
The train tracks were at a spot behind Dundern Castle in Hamilton, Ontario, the city where I was born and grew up. As a little kid I was fascinated by sitting on the hillside watching the trains and the photo was taken when I revisted much later in life.
The sailboat was in the river behind the Canada Parliament buildings in Ottawa.
The photo of a farm with a small lake beside it is a property near Killaloe I could have bought back in those days for CDN$15,000. It was a 300 acre farm (only partly used for a personal vegetable garden) with a wholly enclosed private spring-fed 35 acre lake and 200 acres of woods. The tight little farmhouse, well back from the gravel road, had indoor facilities (very unusual there) and used a drilled well for drinking water and a cistern for other uses. It also had a vacant newer brick one-room schoolhouse at the road entrance that could easily have been converted into a residence and workshop/studio with living space. I still regret not buying it, because I could have afforded it, but my life would have been quite different had I done so.
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