By short stint, I mean only a three days. I was thinking of staying longer, but there is only so much rain one can take I guess. This is the problem with traveling in the winter. I just rolled into Vancouver yesterday and my experience so far has not been so thrilling. Vancouver is a beautiful city, but it really lacks the charm that a San Francisco has. My hotel is pretty OK, warm and clean and the staff is nice and helpful. It’s cheap but it sits right on the border of a really shady neighborhood and a quiet little corner of downtown Vancouver. I am a short distance from the Gastown District, which is really something. I wandered around most of the downtown area between yesterday and today and saw a lot of stuff.

I will write more after I leave on the first.

Here are just a few pics from today, I will post more after I have the film from my Rollei processed.

One of the things I do love about Boulder is that you don’t have to go far to see wildlife. I walk outside everyday and I see deer, fox, black bears, raccoons, ducks, hawks and prairie dogs just to name a few. The ducks at the Boulder Creek are pretty comfortable because knuckleheads are feeding them. They have figured out that if they stay around there long enough someone will feed them, and it never really gets to cold in Boulder, so the critters stick around most of the winter.

I have much love for classic and toy cameras, I own several versions of the Kodak Duaflex. My favorite is the focus free Kodak Duaflex II, but my second is the Duaflex III, with a zone focus Kodar lens and three choices for setting the apeture, f8, f11, and f16. It was produced between 1954-1957. The focus is completely unreliable and vignettes badly, there is so much charm with that. I really enjoy these old Twin Lens Reflex cameras, they require me to respool 120 film onto Kodak propriatary 620 metal spools. This is tricky, but it is definately worth the work.

The pictures below were taken a couple of weeks ago and shot on Efke 50 and push processed in D76 at e.i. 100.