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Today, four new scans of old negatives. This is Gail, a friend I hung out with in the 1970s and early 1980s. Photographed by window light, Victoria, BC. Gail was a fellow Sagittarian, smart and beautiful, and we shared a similar sense of humour. She's 33 in this photo. 24mm lens, 35mm camera (a Pentax Spotmatic), cropped square.

Scanned from the original Tri-X (ISO 400) negative, May 1980.

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I never ask people to be anything other than what they are when in front of my camera. Kevin must have been having a tough day; he looks pretty grim. He and I went through some intense times in the early 70s when someone we both loved was seriously ill; you bond through an experience like that. A sociologist and teacher at the University of Toronto when I met him, many of his ideas came to form the basis of my socio-political outlook in my mid-twenties. Kev is 49 in this photo. He has just moved to rural Quebec. Having trouble with the well, I think...

Scanned from the original Tri-X (ISO 400) negative, October 1977.

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This is a grab shot made on a busy street in downtown Montreal on a visit I made "back home" after relocating on Canada's west coast. Late summer. I didn't know these two, and I don't think they noticed me snap their photo as they emerged from a little boutique. Can't remember which street, but it was in the vicinity of old Sir George Williams University, now Concordia.

Scanned from the original Tri-X (ISO 400) negative, September 1973.

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George was a childhood friend - pretty much family, as he grew up nearby and spent countless days with my brother and me in Bois-des-Filion, Quebec. Endless summers, baseball games, football, playing cards, hanging out, keeping out of trouble for the most part. I made this shot of him, aged 19, in my mother's kitchen, the year I left Quebec for good. George was bound for Texas, although he didn't know it at the time. The goatee was new; we were all looking for ways to signal our transitions into manhood.

Scanned from the original Tri-X (ISO 400) negative, May 1970.

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Today I need a hit of summer, so I've gone back through my files to find some overlooked images worth sharing. Here's a shot made along the Rosefield Grid road, near my home in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. July. Towering cumulus clouds. Warm breezes. Midsummer. Ahh...

Note: Those who follow my photostream will know that I straighten my horizons, either in camera or in Photoshop. I didn't do so here because the land really does slope up to the left toward the hills of Grasslands National Park. Not all prairie is flat.

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