Adventures with Ansel - Dunster BC on Kentmere 100 Film

Here is episode 2 of Adventures with Ansel, I hope you enjoy it!

Alexandre and I spent a good chunk of the summer camping at Mount Robson and exploring the Robson Valley, which is actually the Fraser Valley, because the Fraser River Flows through it… 

Whatever, it’s a wondrous place to explore, and this episode offers a glimpse at one of the hidden treasures along the way. Dunster BC is a bit off the main highway, but worth the side trip if for nothing else but to shop at the general store.

We were short of canned mushrooms for some gourmet meal back at camp and desperate for a small whisk for the camp kit… they had both items! Mushrooms admittedly we could get anywhere, but the small whisk we did not see anywhere else, McBride or Jasper or Valemount, nobody else had one.

The photos in this episode were shot on Kentmere Pan 100, which is becoming one of my favourite films, cheap and a real old time look. 

The soundtrack is provided by bensoud.com under their free use license.

Until next time, enjoy!!
Dean

Adventures with Ansel - West Twin Creek

Adventures with Ansel is new project I’ve been working on for a while. My trusty 2010 Honda Civic takes me everywhere and to all of my photography adventures so I’ve named the car Ansel. These are going to be short videos taken on adventures in Ansel with a few photographs from the video location featured.

This one was shot on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, traveling from Prince George BC to Calgary AB on the way home. I had an expired roll of Kodakcolor 200 I ran through my old Nikon EM that day, I’m not displeased with some of the shots, this is one of a few stops I made that day to capture the season and the day.

Enjoy!
Dean

Tree Carving Art captured on Kodak Gold 200

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.