{"id":457,"date":"2013-05-28T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/?p=457"},"modified":"2013-05-28T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:23:37","slug":"a-few-weeks-in-may-condensed-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2013\/05\/28\/a-few-weeks-in-may-condensed-version\/","title":{"rendered":"A few weeks in May (condensed version)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh, it’s been a while. Things have been happening, but blogging has not been one of them. In recent memory, I’ve said I intend to post about more of my recent film camera acquisitions<\/a>, and additional delving into local history<\/a>. I’m not sure this post is going to satisfy either of those promises. Not much, anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan<\/a>
\nRacing season beginneth – getting it slightly wrong on the first lap.<\/em><\/p>\n

In among some automotive shenanigans, the local sportscar racing season having kicked off on Victoria Day weekend<\/a>, I’ve also managed to punch a few more rolls through the old cameras<\/a>, mainly by haunting more old cemeteries – plus a few more modern ones.<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>
\nKing City Cemetery – Kodak Gold 200 film, Minolta Hi-Matic 11 camera.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even more fun is the beginning of this year’s reprise of my role as an event photographer for the Honda Indy Toronto<\/a> race weekend, coming up in July. This year’s first event was a photo call with popular Canadian drivers James Hinchcliffe and Alex Tagliani, as part of the publicity run-up to the Indy 500<\/a>, which was last Sunday. Neither driver won, sentimental favourite and perennial runner-up Tony Kanaan finally taking his first title<\/a>, but on this day, both Canadians were in fine form, answering fan questions on Toronto’s sunny waterfront.<\/p>\n

\"Hinch<\/a>
\nJames “The Mayor of Hinchtown” Hinchcliffe and Alex Tagliani, Harbourfront, Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lest you think that all I’ve spent the last few weeks doing was chasing around with a camera, yesterday I spent the morning interviewing potential undergraduate co-op students from the nearby University of Waterloo<\/a>. That requires an always-enjoyable drive to Wellington County – of course with a stop-off here or there if time permits. This time, “there” was the ruins of the old mill in Doon, Ontario, a lovely location I was tipped off to by excellent nature photographer and mill enthusiast Harold Stiver, whose work you can see on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a>
\nFerrie’s mill in Doon, dated 1839.<\/em><\/p>\n

So there you have it – not much of great import happening, and a pretty lackadaisical approach to reporting it. Things will only get busier as the summer approaches… including, if all goes to plan, increasing by several hundred percent the number of Occam’s Typewriter<\/em> authors I’ve met in person – a figure that won’t be hard to beat, since it currently stands at just one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A somewhat disorganized recap of recent events – with pictures, of course. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,10,29],"tags":[146,153,154,156,78,152,155,202,203],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-hobbies","category-photography","category-racing","category-travel","tag-cemetery","tag-doon","tag-drivers","tag-honda-indy-toronto","tag-indycar","tag-king-city","tag-media","tag-photography","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}