[Outlying radar station for NAS Whidbey Island. Oak Harbor, WA. January, 2000.] What Say You:
Canadians on Canadians
Technical Notes & Credits
All of the pictures in this project, except for the ones on this page, were taken using a Mamiya C330S twin-lens reflex, using an 80mm/2.8 lens. The "default" film for this project was Kodak Verichrome Pan, though Kodak Tri-X and TMY, and Ilford Delta 3200 and Pan F+, saw some heavy use. Images were scanned using an Acer Prisa 620UT, pretty much the cheapest scanner on the market (as of August 2000) capable of scanning negatives and transparancies. Post-processing was done in Adobe PhotoShop. HTML edited and cobbled together in emacs, running on a Linux 2.2.17 system. Web hosting provided by fumbling.com in cooperation with Vrinimi Networking and Islandnet.com. If you care, I've written a bit more about my philosophy of photography, and the equipment I use.

Most, if not all, of these pictures are deliberately evocative of a series of mBanx ads that were seared into our collective memories a few years ago. I liked the style and presentation of the commercials, and I like the fact that they represent a common touch-stone for most Canadians, who were exposed to them once upon a time and probably came to loathe them. mBanx wanted to know whether you thought a bank could change; me, I wanted to know whether you thought a country, a society, a population could change -- or should change.

But mostly, I wanted to hear what twelve people thought about the state of the country. It was enlightening.

Shout Outs

[Tree on Mt. Doug. Victoria, BC. October, 2000.] My models: My dilligent critics: It was fun. Let's do this again sometime, huh?



phloem@fumbling.com