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Title: Olenka Author: Budi Darma Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 320 In Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair, and Fanton steps deeper into Olenka’s mysterious world. But one day, Olenka vanishes. Fanton’s subsequent search for Olenka becomes an existential journey…

I have quite a few photos of this building, I pass it on the way to the office and I just like the stone and windows. On this particular morning I was actually waiting for a break in traffic because I liked the one garbage bin with its lid up out front of the Weird Harbour espresso bar. It wasn’t until I had taken the photo and lowered the camera that I noticed the man drinking his morning espresso in the window. I smiled and kept walking. Photograph tags: halifax, street, BelieveInFilm,…

I find most people who are waiting for a bus are either relentlessly scrolling on their phones or relentlessly craning their necks to see if the bus is near. I pass by the Khyber — officially known in the historical buildings record as the Church of England Institute — at least twice a day on my walking commute to-and-from the office, and I often find something about it interesting enough to capture. There is usually too much traffic on Barrington Street blocking the view but on this day it was…

There are a few places to sit along the active transportation trail that’s part of the new Cogswell district updates. But there are no trash cans. I was walking from my place downtown to a friend’s place so took the new path. This graffiti is in a few places along the trail, and like the rest of downtown Halifax, the point stands: there needs to be more trash cans. Photograph tags: BelieveInFilm, FilmPhotography, BlackAndWhite, halifax, graffiti, minoltacle

After a few years of failing to remember to take a roll of infrared film out of the fridge I managed to do it this year. I loaded it up in to my Mamiya 6, slapped on an R72 filter and carried it around with me. I went on a bike ride with a friend to the Annapolis Valley and thought it’s be a great place to get some interesting photos but I managed to overexpose those frames, even at ISO12! I then took the camera with the remaining unexposed frames to a friend’s cabin in the woods where I seemed…

It’s that time of year when the boots and hats need a cleanin’ and a waxin’. Started with cleaning the hiking boots and re-treated them with HydroBloc, then moved on to the Doc Martens and paddling/hiking hat, both getting a cleaning and fresh coats of wax. Ready for another season in the elements! Note tags: athome, boots, gear

When there’s a pile of outdoor gear piled on the floor only one thing can be upcoming, a canoe trip into the backcountry. I’m heading into the backcountry of Kejimkujik National Park next weekend for four days with a couple of friends. I’m really looking forward to it, hoping the weather isn’t too bad. Note tags: backcountry, keji