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Ian Austen

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Canada Correspondent, @nytimes.com. Mostly photos, mostly made on film, a lot of it large. [email protected]

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 1d

That’s more or less how cine cameras once worked although the motion was sideways and the system was called rack over They had external VFs for use when the lens was back over the film gate.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that was common to all of Mamiya’s camera lines was an almost insane number of accessories, many of them quite obscure. I have the cold weather battery gizmo for my Mamiya 7ii but I’ve not gone for the very strange fixed distance close up attachment nor its opposite, the 35mm pano setup.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 1d

One wonders if there was also internal corporate tension because of Mamiya’s own MF SLRs

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 5d

Construction equipment spending the night in the bush along South Portage Road, Lake of Bays, Ontario (Leica M Monochrom, 35mm f1.4 Summilux ASPH)

A small loader and roller are tucked into the edges of a logging road leading to a gravel road. The scene is dark, lit by whatever evening sun is making it over a hill and through the trees.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 6d

It was just a map alternating with an ad for the trains.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 6d

Bayview O Train Station, westbound platform, Ottawa. (Leica M Monochrom, the M9 based original, 50mm f1.2 Noctilux ASPH)

A cylinderical payphone booth on a concrete platform in frton of a window. A suicide prevention help notice is to its left. A cabinet to the right has fire hose connections and an extinguisher. A phone pictograph is above a push button emergency call station. A illuminated sign further ride is overexposed. Trash and recycling receptacles are underneath it.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 11d

The purchase of the U.S. wharf is certainly a good start to its renewal but there’s still a long way to go.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 12d

The second payphone at the Wolfe Island Ferry terminal in Kingston, Ontario. It's impossible to tell from the outside if the adjacent new terminal building will boast this feature. Although it seems unlikely. (Leica M Monochrome, 35mm f1.4 Summilux ASPH)

A glass sided payphone kiosk in a small entranceway. Recycling and trash bins are below it and some sort of fire alarm indicator panel is to its right. Lettering, reversed in the photo, on the window reads, in English and French: "Ferry users only."

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you. And you have the advantage on that one in that you photographed it while I haven’t done so.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you. That’s an excellent one. I’m passing through London soon and may go by the airport.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you. I’m sort of kicking myself for not going there earlier.

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 17d

Aboard the Ontario government ferry from Wolfe Island to Kingston. (Leica SL Typ 601, 35mm f1.4 Summilux M)

A night scene from a ferry boat deck. A large moon is glinting off the ripples of a lake. An open steel staircase, lit from the top, dominates the scene and casts a prominent shadow. To the right a yellowy light illuminates an alcove to a steel door with a large wheelchair accessibility symbol on it.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 18d

Île d'Orléans, Quebec. Clearly there was not enough pay phone demand from hot corn on the cob diners. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

A Bell Canada pay phone kiosk with is missing its phone inside a dining overhang at a farm stand. A sign made to look like a scroll reads (translated from French) Fruit, Vegetables, Roger Pouliot, Maple Products, Hot Corn on the Cob. There is a long bench under the sign and phone. A picnic bench is in the foreground, another is outside of the sheltered area.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks!

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 19d

thank you

Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 19d

A former schoolhouse in Selby, Ontario, near Napanee. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Orange filter, Kodak TriX)

The shadow of a large tree leads up to a small, white stucco building that is somewhat ramshackle and surrounded by an unkempt lawn. The sky is mostly clear and there are two trees behind the building to the left. A long row of round hay bales covered in white plastic are out in the field.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 21d

One of the doomed rest stops on Quebec Autoroute 20 between Quebec City and Montreal. Also the only remaining one with an indoor phone. Why the phone has such a large waste bin is unclear. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

A all-tiled entrance to a institutional building. The Walls are white, the floor darker. A payphone is mounted on the wall a large, plastic trash bin underneath it. Above the phone is a frame highway map. Two empty frame flank it. A door to the right opens into a washroom. A long strip of florescent lighting runs along the white ceiling.

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 22d

Stay tuned Heather. Some refurbished and reinstalled phones are coming up this week

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Ian Austen @ianausten.bsky.social · 22d

Another Ontario government ferry-related payphones. The first of two in the soon to be replaced Wolfe Island ferry terminal in Kingston. (Leica M Monochrom, 35mm f1.4 Summilux ASPH)