Jim Sollows 🇨🇦

@sollows.ca

Fort Langley BC Canada. Leica M6, Hasselblad 500CM and more. I enjoy shooting / teaching film, darkroom printing. Passion for restoring and using vintage cameras. I also enjoy Fuji X digital too. 🇨🇦

No Parking I was wandering the back lanes of Langley with my Leica 0 when I came across this scene. Someone painted an entire world on a concrete block wall… a garden, windows, climbing vines, a driveway… and a tricycle right in the middle of it.

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Where Journeys Once Began The Fort Langley station once served as the beating heart of the Fraser Valley. Supplies came in, harvests went out, and countless journeys began and ended beside these tracks.

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1909 Kodak 3A — Restoration and Field Test It was headed for the dumpster. I had other ideas. My latest video follows this 1909 Kodak 3A from a neglected wreck to a working camera — and then out into the field, loaded with film that expired nearly 40 years ago. Here’s the link.

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Find Your Corner A quiet café corner can feel like its own small world. No noise. No screens. Just a person and a page. He was deep in that world, and I did not want to disturb it. A notebook open, a pen moving, a cup of coffee cooling beside him, and soft window light shaping the moment.

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When you work from a café and someone still finds a way to look over your shoulder. I was out in the village testing the brand new 7Artisans 35mm LTM lens on my Leica iiiF. Leica iiiF with Ilford FP4 film Fort Langley BC Canada Website: http://www.sollows.ca Contact and links:

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Crossing Lines Biking across the Golden Ears Bridge in the afternoon sun, the railings cast sharp, converging shadows that felt almost architectural. A plain cycle path became a study in light, contrast and direction. Light carried the whole scene and drew me to make the photograph. Fujifilm X-E5

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A Quiet Moment in Another Light Two people, a bench, and a view that most eyes will never see. This was shot here in Fort Langley on a bright afternoon using a full spectrum Fujifilm X100T with a 590nm infrared filter.

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Perspective I’ve walked past the village train station so many times that I’ve practically photographed it from every angle known to humankind. Today I decided to add one more … the “crawl under the railcar” angle. Don’t worry, I’m not that reckless. This car hasn’t moved in years.

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Light Through Time There’s something quietly haunting about the way light finds its way through old windows. This scene from an old cabin feels less like a photograph and the more like a memory.

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