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Toronto, 2011.03.01

I could take no more. This weekend I got the film scanner and my external RAID device out of the boxes.

God, I do love film.

'Burlington
Burlington Canal in November*

I have a good few dozen rolls to scan, so it's a good thing I can keep the scanner going while I do other things. Sadly, in Canada the film labs cut the negatives into strips of four instead of strips of six like in Japan, which means that for every run of the scanner I'm scanning two empty slots. Still, my seven year old scanner is still going strong, and I'm not complaining.

'Miyazaki,
Miyazaki, Japan

*This was shot with my 20mm lens which seems to be in need of some adjustment.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong