Playing with my Pentax Zoom 105-R

I recently won a Pentax Zoom 105-R film camera in a Downtown Camera Mystery Box and I absolutely love it! Point and shoot film cameras are great; not only are they easy to use, but their functional simplicity and compact size encourage you to bring them with you everywhere. Lately, I’ve found inspiration in the works of Daido Moriyama, a Japanese street photographer whose advice to “take photographs - of anything and everything, whatever catches your eye. Don’t pause to think” truly lends itself to the importance of point and shoot cameras. In a world where everyone is after the perfect photograph, snapshot photography is a welcome change.

These images were taken with Kodak Pro Image 100 and Kodak Ultramax 400.

Portrait Series: Rose Brokenshire

Rose and I studied Landscape Architecture together at the University of Guelph, where we spent our days dreaming of adventures abroad and memorizing the Latin names of leaves. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a decade since we graduated, but not very surprising that neither of us chose a career in the industry. This past summer, we spent an afternoon in Corktown Common taking portraits amongst the plants, a landscape reminiscent of our previous life as students.