Viewing the first day of fall through a vintage lens. Film renders the hues and textures of autumn light the way our memories see them.
September memories
September, summer quietly turns to fall. It happens subtly at first, so subtly that you think summer might never end.
Hazy summer days
Smoke from northern wildfires descends on Saskatoon, casting the city in muted, sepia tones.
After the rain
A prairie rain skims over a dry landscape on a summer day. It’s been dry for weeks. Parched grasses rustle crisply as the lightest breeze sighs a breathless gasp through them under the baking mid-summer sun. The ground crunches with each footstep. Signs warn of extreme wildfire hazard. But then the rain. Not a downpour. […]
Memories in film: Cats Basking
Barn cats relaxing in warm sunshine on a late autumn day, 1 November 1987.
Memories in film: shadowy figures
Shadowy figures on catwalk, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 30 July 1988. Three people with their backs to the camera are seated at tables on a catwalk suspended above the main floor of a glass wall on a day when the sky is hazy. Another catwalk is suspended one floor above, with no people. […]