Thanksgiving weekend found us adventuring around Prince George in British Columbia shooting one of my favourite films, Kodak Gold 200.
I like the colours it brings out especially in the fall. This film is also very affordable, still available for now anyways, at most Walmart stores for about $13.50 for a pack of 3 rolls of 24. I have a number of small projects I shot on this film this past summer and early fall. This is the first of these small color film projects that I have ready, I will share more in the coming weeks and months over the winter.
A favourite spot for hiking on a nice fall day, or winter is Cottonwood Island Park at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers. The bugs make this an impossible venture during the summer into the early fall when frost has knocked the mosquitos and blackfies back a little.
All along the trails of Cottonwood Island Park are 20 carvings of faces, mystical creatures and a dragon. They’re the creations of Prince George artist Elmer Gunderson, who has been carving and sculpting for more than 25 years. Gunderson helped develop Cottonwood Island Park in the early 1980s as a city parks employee.
The first 8 carvings in the series were done as part of the City of Prince George’s 90th anniversary celebrations in 2005, flooding along the Nechako River since swept two of those carvings away. In 2016 and 2017 Gunderson added 14 more carvings as part of a community enhancement project funded by the City of Prince George.
I've attached a small collection of photographs we caught on the Kodak Gold 200 on our little adventure in Cottonwood Island Park.
Enjoy!
Dean.
