Brian Garson

The first photo I took on our east coast trip, it was our first day in Nova Scotia, we had just finished the Keiths Brewery tour in Halifax, walked down the block, and took the Garrison Brewery tour. Garrison makes some delicious pints, and their tour is awesome: it involves sitting/standing at a bar, and drinking $3 pints. If you’re ever there, go visit, it’s just around the corner from the Keiths one.

Another one from my trip out East with Nat this summer, taken in Charlottetown PEI looking out into the harbour.

Maybe I just can’t use digital properly, or photoshop, but my slides from a $20 Holga turned out better than my digi files from a $1500 DSLR. This is a shot of Cavendish beach with my holga on a tripod, and my finger holding down the shutter in bulb mode.

Another one from the walk with Nat to the old port. This photo is midway down St Laurent, just south of Sherbrooke, it’s of nothing in particular.

On Wednesday Nat was working in Old Montreal, and I had some film to bring in from the week before. I decided to put use to my agfa roll that had been sitting on my dresser for about 3 months and shoot it on the way down to her work / the photo lab.

The last photo from the roll, was a photo of Nat, who was still drinking her imported (from Ottawa) Bridgehead tea, I really liked our walk together to work that day and wish we could do it more often.

So it’s been raining, then being freezing cold, then raining, then being warm and sunny and so on for the past 3 weeks. I had my first photo show this week, the opening party was last night at Blizzarts, I think it went pretty well. Familly and friends came up from Ottawa, and those friends that I have made in Montreal came out as well. I recently sold my 35mm camera (the canon 1v-hs) and am looking at getting a fish for my bronica. In the mean time, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my holga 120n, it doesn’t always produce the best results, but they’re fun to use and kind of exciting to get the prints back. A photo of the street at my cottage.

I picked up a holga about 2 weeks ago, people always told me, “good luck with your holga and slide film” fuck that.. 11 out of 12 photos perfectly exposed… well maybe not perfectly, but close enough Here’s one of them, St Laurent blvd on my way to work in the morning.. velvia 100