Remembrance Day 2016 In Mission

November 12, 2016 /

Veterans marching in the Remembrance Day Parade

Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada andVeteran’s Day in the US. It’s a day to pay honour to those who served to protect us, and those who are currently serving. I spent the morning at the local theatre where the Clarke Theatre where the parade was taking place, and then headed out to the Cenotaph at the local Legion Hall.

Spectator with amazing hair watching the Remembrance Day Parade

I wanted to take some photos, nice and simple, so I left the multiple zoom lenses behind and took just the Helios 44-2 (buy it here), a lovely old all-manual Russian lens with some great swirly bokeh. It’s maximum aperture is f/2.0, which is where I kept it most of the time. I processed the images in MacPhun’s Tonality black and white software. Normally I’m a big fan of Silver FX Pro from Nik (now owned by Google), but I’ve had Tonality as part of the MacPhun Creative Kit for a while but honestly haven’t used it much, so I figured I should give it a chance to figure the software out. I wanted the images to get a slightly somber but unified black and white toning.

Reading the names of the fallen in the Clarke Theatre

Overall I’m pretty happy with the selection I got. I wasn’t in full photo mode, but I am glad I caught a few half decent shots of the celebration this year. Hope you enjoy them.