Québec City 2023
In February Jess and I took a trip to Québec City for our 3rd anniversary. We had just recently started shooting film, I had my Nikon-Tele Touch Deluxe, Kodak Ektar H35 and a generic 35mm point-and-shoot, which we'll discuss later.
I've shot dozens of rolls with the Nikon, I've lent it to friends, and it's covered half the world in the time I've owned it. I love this camera, it was my first 135 camera and I'll be shooting it for years to come.
For the start of this post, I want to take some time to memorialize this camera. I found a copy of the manual for my specific model and a VHS copy of an advertisement for the Tele-Touch series of cameras.
There will be other posts showing pictures from this camera but this one is about my trip to Québec so let's get back on track.
We took the Via Rail from Montréal to Québec in roughly 3 hours. It was night at the time so we didn't see too much but it was a smooth ride either way. I've also taken this train down to Toronto and back several times, the whole Via Rail is amazing.
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
While in town we stopped by the Québec Museum of Fine Arts, the general exhibitions were great, here's some photos of us hanging out with the artworks.
Evergon & The Polaroid Spark
While at the Museum we had the pleasure of seeing an exhibition by the Canadian artist Evergon (a.k.a. Albert Jay Lunt, Celluloso Evergoni, etc.). The whole exhibition was incredible but, the part that spoke to me was the Polaroids.
Collages, sculptures, reproductions of baroque paintings on 8x10s & 20x24s, painting on Polaroids, Polaroids inside Polaroids...
Oh my God, what IS this... it... it's... it's going to be a problem.
At the time the only instant camera I owned was a Polaroid Go, it's an amazing camera, but it's small, and I needed something larger.
Below you can see some of the Polaroid works I'm talking about but seeing them in person is worthwhile.
The Cursed Safari Camera
Everyone, welcome the first and last mention of the Safari Quickshot 35mm point-and-shoot. This camera has some serious issues, operator error is one of them but it also has loose padding, causing a weird "eyelash" vignetting and a hair trigger on the film rewind button. For this trip, Jess was shooting the Kodak so I decided to push Fuji Superia 400 2 stops and got some truly spooky results, enjoy.
