This Friday 26 July, 2024 I am giving a PowerPoint presentation (my third one) at the C41Café on the corner of Bayswater and 4^th Ave (2948 4^th Ave).

I have been using  Powerpoint to impart my photographic knowledge to people who might be interested. At my almost age of 82 I would like to lighten my brain.

The title of Friday’s presentation is A Panorama of Panoramics. I will show my extensive use of the 35 mm swivel lens panoramic, the Japanese Widelux and the superb Russian Horizont. I will also show my photos taken with the German Noblex 175 that used 120 film and made a huge negative or slide. I will also demonstrate the panoramic capabilities (and they are extensive) of my mirrorless Fuji X-E3.

The reason I have shot so many swivel lens panoramic photographs is that I worked for magazines that had pushy (that was a good quality) that always wanted something that was different. When I combined Kodak Infrared Film with the panoramics the results were different.

One day in the last century, pushy Vancouver Magazine art director Chris Dahl told me, “Alex I want you to take some Vancouver skyline photographs. I want you to use your Widelux and please jiggle it every once in a while." The results were indeed different and they pleased me, too.

I will bring some framed Widelux Kodak Infrared photographs that I did of the Vancouver botanical gardens. After the job, the editor of Western Living told me, “Alex how would you like to write a monthly garden column for us?” I did for two years. That is the power of diversity in photography.