The textures of the various elements on this empty store front caught my eye while I was exploring Toronto’s Junction district earlier this month. A guy came out of the apartment adjacent to the store and said; “what are you shooting? Cityscapes? This is my store…I guess I should paint it, huh?” I looked up from my crouched position and said; “no! Not on my account!” Maybe I’ll go back and shoot a couple of rolls of black ‘n’ white film before the owner decides to turn this derelict store into apartments.
This image was captured with a stock TL-120-1, on Velvia 100 shot at 200 and then home-push-processed in my basement. The Velvia 100 was actually 22o format – I’ve worked out a winding sequence for the TL-120 that allows me to use 220 film in it as long as the little aluminum sliding door stays closed over the red window. When I started using 220 film in my TL-120-1 I forgot about the aluminum sliding door and had an entire roll come out with transparent red balls embedded in the images. I gave the useable ones titles with the word “Mars” in it, i.e. “Mars Needs Gas”. Each image on the roll looked like it was being invaded by the planet Mars.
