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My bestie is having her first and is due in a few weeks. We thought we shoot some maternity photos at High Park for a perfect autumn setting :)
So this was a souvenir from Florida and made in Canada. A handy device for opening various bottles (cough splutter) and now 25 odd years later, my entry for Macro Monday.
1932 McLaughlin Buick Model 96
McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles headquartered in Oshawa, Ontario. Founded by Robert McLaughlin, it once was the largest carriage manufacturing factory in the British Empire.
Around 1905, Robert's son Sam starting building automobiles. By 1907, this enterprise had grown to include the manufacture of McLaughlin automobiles with Buick engines. In 1915, the company manufactured Chevrolet vehicles for the U.S. and Canadian market.
General Motors of Canada was incorporated in 1918, when it merged McLaughlin and Chevrolet Canada. General Motors Canadian Corporation spent $10 million building a Walkersville, Ontario, plant with the sale of the Chevrolet stock and establishing Canadian products. In 1923, the name of the Canadian-bodied model was officially changed to McLaughlin-Buick, and cars with this name continued to be produced until 1942. Later, production was labelled Buick without the addition of McLaughlin or Canada.
Sam McLaughlin remained chairman of the board of General Motors of Canada, and vice-president and executive director of the parent company, until his death in 1972 at the age of 100.
Traditional photography on 35mm film is booming among young (and old) people. I was given this Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash camera a few years ago. I don't know if it works. The Brownie Holiday is a small single-viewfinder camera for 127 film made of Bakelite by Kodak in the United States and Canada from 1953 to 1962 on a model by Arthur H Crapsey. I recently bought the 1926 Canadian Kodak Co. catalog also pictured. A "No 0 Brownie" camera was worth $2.25 Canadian back then!
La photographie traditionnelle sur des pellicules films 35 mm connaît un essor chez les jeunes (et les moins jeunes). On m’a donné cette caméra Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash il y a quelques années. Je ne sais pas si elle fonctionne. Le Brownie Holiday est un petit appareil photo à viseur simple pour film 127 fabriqué en bakélite par Kodak aux États-Unis et au Canada de 1953 à 1962 sur un modèle d’Arthur H Crapsey. J’ai récemment acheté le catalogue de la Canadian Kodak Co. de 1926 aussi sur la photo. Une Caméra « No 0 Brownie » valait 2.25 $ Canadien à l’époque !
Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive No. 6167.
Operating steam pressure: 250 PSI, producing approx
3000 HP. 6167 is a Northern Type 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.
Weight - 300 tons (locomotive & tender).
Length - (locomotive & tender) - 90 feet.
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works. Montreal, Canada.
Now owned by the City of Guelph and Guelph Museums.
Guelph, Ontario Canada
#Steam #FlickFriday
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Glass' - a possibility!
I've collected odd bottles for some time so it was just a case of finding a few just small enough. The smallest appeared in last week's MM and is very modern in comparison to the battered bottle at the back. Some will recognise the tall thin as being the container of liquid used on a wipe to clean the sensor of your digital camera.
All arranged on a piece of mirror and lit with by a torch from the left and general room lighting from the rear. And the colour is reflected from the gift bag bought in the local convenience store - I've used that before too!
Pentax Auto 110 70mm ................................................... about 2.5 inches
A gecko (on the right) attempts to blend in on this vintage firehose at the Vero Beach City Marina. Firehose is probably original equipment for the marina built in the 1920's. It and others like it have up to date certification stickers. The cotton/canvas hoses are enclosed in well marked boxes with hinged doors which I took the liberty of opening to look inside.
I know I am dating myself but when I was in school all the pencils looked like this, except colouring pencils and the red pencils the teachers used to mark our work.
Also, I don't think very many pencils we buy in Canada these days are made in Canada.
Btw, the length of the pencil in the image is 2.5 inches/6.3 cm.
For Macro Mondays: Brands and logos
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My new-to-me 1982 M4-P has now been accessorized to my satisfaction with the plugs for the PC flash sockets, Leica neck strap, plus TomA Softie and Rapidwinder. Ready for just about anything now.
I was having a beautiful dream about visiting the south pacific with my brothers, who were pitching innovative work solutions to their international employers while I strolled along the beach, without a care in the world. Then there was an explosion and I saw ships on fire and rushed back to the hotel to find my brothers distraught that their respective employers had stolen their ideas, diluted these ideas down to an empty shell, and farmed out their jobs to Bangalore. I awoke in a panic and made this image.
Nothing against Bangalore, but it struck me that when we buy Canadian, and especially when we buy union-made products, then we are investing in more than the local economy. We are investing in values. Ideas of a shared society, a uniquely Canadian identity that can model to the rest of the world how to stand together, support each other and make sure all of us get through these tough times.
This has come up during the EduACTion campaign as we order signs, shirts, pamphlets, etc. for our members. Buying cheaper non-union foreign-made goods enables us to buy more materials for our members and increase our visibility with the media and the public. Buying union-made Canadian materials costs more, and gets us far less 'bang-for-the-buck' in terms of visibility, yet demonstrates a firm commitment to a particular standard of living.
What does being Canadian mean to you? Please comment below.
An old Kodak Instamatic from the 70's, sans flash cube.
Found this in my parents' house, plan to dig out some other old school cameras and try to get some nice closeups.
Makeup mirror and Barefoot Venus creamy wash in Wild Ginger and Sweet Orange, with matching body balm.
Crazy Tuesday: Mirror Photography
04/04/2015, Caland Canal, Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 08/01/2010, and completed on 09/09/2010, by East Isle Shipyard, Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (97).
381 g.t., 114 n.t. & 70 tons bollard pull, as:
'Stevns Battler' to 2011,
'Svitzer Nari' to 2017,
'Stevns Battler' to 2022,
'Med Acrux' to 2022, &
'VB Benelux' since.
Photo with the kind permission of Willem Koper.
I'm determined to divert my spending to things NOT made in China whenever possible. Trying as much as possible to support local businesses and nations of democracy and freedom.
You may recall just around Christmas, I posted photos of Lorne's Coats, a coat maker and retailer in Toronto's old Fashion District. When I visited the shop, they didn't have my size 36, but told me that "we make our coats in Canada, you can order one and we'd call you when it's ready."
So here is my burgundy wool peacoat made in Canada!
The ironic thing is a wool pea coat nowadays is sometimes considered a rather classy and elegant piece of winter overcoat, yet traditionally it was worn by sailors of European and later American navies. In other words, men of no great wealth, culture or prospect, at all. Historically a pea coat is in a very dark blue or black -- hence the "navy blue" terminology.
I already have a navy blue wool coat so I purposely picked one that is of a completely different colour from a dark tone.
Made June 1955
Made in Canada by Canadian Kodak Co., Limited
Load with Kodak 620 Film
Original selling price was $7 USD. I paid $20 CAD. Who knows, but 2091, it might be up as high as $60 CAD. #investment...LOL.
So named because it's red outside and dark brown inside, like raw, bloody chicken bones. Cringe!
849 College Street, Toronto
I could see there was something on the back of his calf...but, had to change lenses to get a better look, and, even then, had to crop it to get a closer look.
A proud Canuck in a kilt.
Men in Kilts window cleaners.
Taken with a Kodak No.0 Brownie Model A camera in week 317of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
The film is "Rollei Nightbird" which is a redscale frame rated at ISO 500-800. I think I have learned my lesson now, having shot two 35mm rolls of this film, and looked at comments online, it is quite clear that this film should be rated at a much lower ISO. All the photos, with the exception of the guesstimated long exposure self-portrait, are grossly underexposed.
Chapmans ice cream was in the news recently. In a drive to make the workplace safer, Chapmans -- rather than merely enforcing a workplace vaccination requirement, decided to reward the workers who are vaccinated against Covid 19 by giving them a $1-an-hour pay raise. This goodwill gesture to its employees became the target of some moronic anti-vaxxer groups, which launched an on-line campaign to boycott Chapmans.
Luckily, or perhaps it was not luck but more like good sense prevailed in the end, as the anti-vaxxers' "boycott Chapmans" campaign backfired, the public poured in their support for Chapmans by email, phone calls, letters and on-line social media comments.
I've always bought Chapmans ice cream, and on this day, I bought a tub even though technically I didn't need it.
115 studios--cirque du soleil / fabg architectes / montreal, canada
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