Jim Sollows

Through The Window

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Fort Langley British Columbia, Canada
Fujifilm X-E5


Website: http://www.sollows.ca
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A Century of Photography
Back to where it all began
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#leica #fujifilm #Photography #stilllife #CanadianPhotographer

The Space That Makes Us Small
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#xe5 #fujifilm #Photography #landscape#CanadianPhotographer

Between Fog and Light
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#xe5 #fujifilm #Photography #landscape#CanadianPhotographer

Just drop me a note if you need one, anytime 👍

That would be amazing left natural wood

If you need one I do camera repair and have a 3D printer to make them. I would be happy to send you one.

There Is No Place Like Home

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Website: www.sollows.ca
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Beautiful I shoot both the 139 and 137. Wonderful cameras!

Thanks Eddie!! I appreciate the repost as well 👍

#x-e5 #fujifilm #Photography #FisheyeLens #CanadianPhotographer

Change of perspective today. When my mojo slows down, I reach for something odd, fun, and a little impractical. The fisheye did the trick. Amazing what happens when you look at the familiar from a completely different angle.

Website: www.sollows.ca
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That was a part of my selection criteria. When I shoot my last frame on this planet my image library remains fully accessible using any image editor.

That was the early version. The latest versions have improved significantly.

It’s about bloody time. For decades he’s been saying it’s not possible. Now he’s got competition that is leaving him in the dust. You couldn’t pay me to go back to NLP. FilmLab is wonderful!

That was an issue for me too. I used Negative Lab Pro which is stuck in the dark ages. I now use Film Lab which has been wonderful and works completely independent of any editor.

How has it been, what decisions did I make? And would I do anything different?

I’ve written about the whole journey, the migration, and the alternatives worth exploring.

👉 Read the full story:

https://www.sollows.ca/escape-from-adobe/

#lightroom #photography

After decades in Adobe’s ecosystem with Lightroom and Photoshop, I finally reached a breaking point. Rising subscription costs, a fragile catalogue, and a crash that nearly wiped out my photographic history pushed me to rethink everything.

I pulled the plug on Adobe two years ago.

Website: www.sollows.ca
Contact and links: www.linktr.ee/jsollows

#xe5 #fujifilm #fortlangley #streetphotography

No Parking

Out for a sunny walk in the village, I came across what looked like a blatant violation outside the Town Hall. One gentleman fully committed to occupying the no‑parking zone, stretched out with zero indication of moving anytime soon.

Fort Langley, BC, Canada
Fujifilm X‑E5

https://substack.com/@jimsollows/note/c-212187867?r=76t8v0&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

#leicafilm #ilfordhp5 #fortlangley #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Canoes would appear out of the mist just like this, quiet, purposeful, part of the daily rhythm of a frontier community taking shape.
Fort Langley British Columbia Canada
Leica 0 with Ilford HP5 film

Website: www.sollows.ca
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Where the Channel Remembers

Fog settling over Bedford Channel, the birches holding the shoreline the way they have for generations. In the early days of Fort Langley, this stretch of water carried voyageurs, Stó:lō paddlers, and Hudson’s Bay Company crews moving between trading posts.

The cheap ones on Amazon are notorious for this

It’s a beautiful camera. A professional CLA won’t break the bank and the camera will last you a lifetime!

#deltabc #fujifilm #canada #xt3 #artknapp

What looked like a forgotten relic turned out to be a small piece of British Columbia’s horticultural past.

I wrote more about it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimsollows/p/still-standing

Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Website: www.sollows.ca
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I went out looking for something new to photograph and ended up circling back to an old truck I had almost ignored. Up close it revealed a story from the early days of Art Knapp, still clinging to the metal under decades of rust.

You can watch the whole series on YT https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQ29uBk6PyhoadQIUpGzrTJNB5mw_h7u&si=slZk7KityWxpU0z2