Whenever we travel with the kids, I tend to use evenings and nights — after we’ve had dinner and put the kids to bed — to do a little more exploring. Cities can look very different after dark, and I’m always interested to capture that. These photos were taken throughout the week we were in Montreal, on different nights when I would wander, camera in tow.
End of the shift.
Street performer.
Taking an order.
On a walk.
Billboard.
Empty subway.
Waiting for the train.
On our fifth day in the city, we did a little more sightseeing — heading up to Saint Joseph’s Oratory — and went back to spots around the city we enjoyed, like a nice big park in Little Italy, where the kids could run around and yell at birds. Other than the first shot, which is digital, these photos were taken on a motion picture film stock that I bought from my local camera shop. I clearly underexposed at least one of these photos, but I think it still came out alright.
More photos from our trip. I think on this day we spent most of our time in and around the Outremont neighborhood.
War Memorial.
Yellow door.
Ride by.
They were playing and singing the whole time and honestly, it wasn’t great.
There is a cat in the distance.
I don’t know what this is about but I like it.
More photos from our stay in Montreal. If the photo is digital, it was taken using a Panasonic GX-8 and if it was film, it was taken on Ilford XP2 Super using a Leica M4-P.
Exterior of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Trinité.
Interior of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Trinité.
Metro stop.
Taken during a nighttime walk.
Chinatown.
Maybe my favorite mural of the many I saw around the city.
A very large Leonard Cohen.
Not entirely sure what this is supposed to be.
I wish I would have kept track of exactly where we went each day we were in the city, but the short of it is that we tried to explore as many neighborhoods as we could. I believe that our second day had us walking through the “Gay Village” out to Plateau-Mont-Royal, stopping at parks and cafes as we went along.
Anyway, here are the photos! Everything film was taken with a Leica M4-P and Fujicolor 200, everything digital with a Leica M10-D.
We were staying downtown and I took these photos as we made our way back to our hotel. The last photo was taken during a nighttime walk while the rest of the family was sleeping.
We went to Montreal this summer for a little family vacation in a new (to us) location. Our main objective was to explore, sightsee and eat. I brought a few cameras — one film, two digital — and took a lot of pictures. Here is a selection of shots from our first full day in town, taken on a Leica MP-4 (with Ilford XP2 Super film) and a Leica M10-D.
Seen in Old Montreal.
A Chinatown street corner.
I can’t resist an old car.
Montreal Notre Dame
Practice.
Some real Charlie Brown energy here.
Bank of Montreal.
My family is from the Florida panhandle and I was there this summer, with my oldest, to attend our biannual family reunion. Before we left, we walked around the downtown area to kill some time and here are a few of the pictures I took. I used a Yashica-D medium format camera and Kodak Gold 200 (overdeveloped for two additional stops of light).
A few abandoned storefronts (and a real Edward Hopper vibe).
Another older storefront, which now houses a few offices.
A mural celebrating a few of the people that hail from the area.
I’m sharing these in the order of “shots I find most aesthetically pleasing” from top to bottom.
Nikon Teletouch 300 AF | Kodak UltraMax 400
Nikon Teletouch 300 AF | Kodak UltraMax 400
Nikon Teletouch 300 AF | Kodak UltraMax 400
Nikon Teletouch 300 AF | Kodak UltraMax 400
Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 35mm f/2.0 | Kodak Gold 200
Just some stuff around Charlottesville. Taken on various 35mm films.
C&O Restaurant | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 90mm f/2.8 | Kodak Gold 200
CVS | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 50mm f/2.0 | Kodak Gold 200
Food Master | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 50mm f/2.0 | Kodak Gold 200
7-Day Junior | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 50mm f/2.0 | Kodak Gold 200
Railroad Crossing | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 28mm f/2.8 | Kodak 250D rolled by Atlantic Film Co.
Alterations | Leica M4-P | M-Hexanon 35mm f/2.0 | Ilford XP2 Super
Some bees I saw this weekend.
