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Ghosts - 8x10 Hand Printed - Preorder

Ghosts – 8×10 Hand Printed – Preorder

Limited to 10 darkroom prints of Nick Pegg’s “Ghosts”.

Pre-order between July 3rd to 13th to save $50

Pre-order price $100 (Unframed, Paypal) 

Shipping $15 (tracked, insured for $100) 

PRE-ORDER HERE

“Ghosts” 2016

The first official photo release from Nick Pegg. Shot, developed, and printed by Nick.

Limited to 10 prints. Signed and numbered.

Save $50 now by preordering between July 3rd – 13th.

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This past summer I built a darkroom in my basement apartment. Guess I’ve come a long way since the first post on this blog.

This past week, a series of prints that I developed in that darkroom are now for sale at a local art shop called Iris Arts in Cambridge Ontario. Guess, I’ve really come a long way since the first post on this blog.

It takes about 3 minutes total to see the image on the paper, once you get the enlarger in focus in the darkroom. About 2 seconds once you press the shutter button on your iphone.

The 3 minutes time statement is a lie actually. I took these images 3 years ago, on a old Bronica ETRSI medium format camera that I traded a bunch of thrifted Polaroid camera’s for at Burlington Camera.

So I guess, these photo’s took 3 years to appear on paper.

Speaking of thrift shops. I was at one about 2 years ago and stumble across a box loaded with darkroom equipment. Up until that moment in my life I had never even seen darkroom equipment in real life before. Literally everything except the chemicals and a dark light sealed room was in that box. For $40 (which I actually didn’t have at the time) was all they were asking for about (if sourced all individually) $1000 + worth of gear.  So smacked that $40 dollar charge on to my credit card and brought it home, cleaned it all up, and stored it in my dads basement for about 2 years.

One day early 2018 I was taking a pee in a small unfinished bathroom. It had a small window, bunch of two by fours and running water. I thought, after flushing the toilet of course, I could block out that window and make this into a darkroom.

So this summer, I decided to follow through with that, I pulled out the 1000 archived negatives from the past 5 years and decided to find something to print and hang on my wall.

I’m really glad I did that.

More to come soon.

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Thanks for reading this

This Past Summer This past summer I built a darkroom in my basement apartment. Guess I've come a long way since the first post on this blog.

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This all really started with a phone call to my friend that works at Enterprise rent a car. He hooked me up with a staff discount on a small Toyota from the Kamloops Airport.

I was originally just driving a bit out of my way to go visit family that I hardly ever see.

Last June I was a part of a cross continent tour speaking each night about my struggle with depression, thoughts of suicide and how you can get help if you also feel this way.

You can check out my work here.

I had two days off and decided to jump out of the van full of greasy un-showered mid twenty year old dudes, and jump into a tiny rental car with my Kiwi brother to go see family who live near whistler.

In my head, as I loaded google maps to check routing, I was just going through some small towns and I’m sure a couple mountains. Knowing that I was in The Rockies I gave it the generic “Well I’m sure it will be beautiful” preparation and didn’t think much of it.

I just wish someone had told me what I was in for.

The road is called The Duffy Lake Road, or HWY 99. We drove from Kamloops up Hwy 1 to Cache Creek where we then turned on to Hwy 99. Basically all you need to do is stay on that road. You will have to follow a few signs in Lilooet to not end up on 12 but just follow the RV’s and you will be ok. Or don’t and have a great time being lost and feeling free. You can take this road all the way to Vancouver, which is likely where you are heading anyways after you spend all your money in Whistler.

This road will take you through every thing you want and more. Crazy cliffs , sharp peaks, Meadows and flats, massive rivers. You can touch snow peaks, and witness that snow turn into waterfalls. It will make you question your cars braking system and wonder how mechanically sound it all is. You will wonder what it’s like to live there and why you’ve never heard of this place.

It really is something.

All of these photo’s were taken in the time span of about 4 hours.

If you can, take a full day to drive the road. You will thank yourself for that. We were late and had to keep moving so it was quite painful to drive by some incredible scenes.

I don’t really know what to say other than, It doesn’t often happen in life that you just stumble into something so incredible that it changes you. It was like, that day, out of the naive and normal decision I made to go visit family, everything went right.

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You should do yourself a favour and plan to drive this road sometime.

Here is a map of the road that we drove.

I shot all of these on a Canon 60D with an 18-55mm kit lens.

Check those camera’s out here: http://amzn.to/2j0wsWN

And edited them in Lightroom

Thank you for reading this.

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  When Everything Goes Right This all really started with a phone call to my friend that works at Enterprise rent a car.

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Clarity is possible. (at Lake Superior Provincial Park)

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Skipping stones in Banff while your pants are falling down. 📸 @jaredevangelista (at Lake Minnewanka)

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Let's go back to the mountains. (at Jasper, Alberta)

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I really want to jump in a lake right now. • Speaking in Quebec City tonight. Support link in bio. • Edit with @joeyspeers presets. (at Old Woman Bay)

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Don't diss northern Ontario. (at Old Woman Bay)

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Glass. (at Kenora, Ontario)

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Pupper trucker. #nikonaf35 #portra400 (at The Tennessean Truckstop)

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I forsure most definitely do not hate @ihatejakesmith Edit with @joeyspeers presets. (at Lake Minnewanka)

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A woodland creature. (at Lake Minnewanka)

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Move on. (at Banff National Park)

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Let my sight give way to your songs of peace. Speaking in Nelson BC tonight, support link in bio. (at Lake Minnewanka)

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To those willing to speak. Vancouver tonight at the 333. Speaking before @kennedyband plays. We head back east tomorrow help us get home, link in bio. #Banff (at Banff, Alberta)

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I saw a bear in Banff! @jaredevangelista is such an unreal photographer and person, I'm going to miss him and the @conveyer boys when this tour is over. Speaking in Grand Prairie tonight at the Blue Room. Support the cross Canada speaking tour link in bio! (at Lake Minnetonka)

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Moose Jaw was a time. Speaking in Edmonton tonight at Needle Vinyl Tavern. Support the cross Canada speaking tour link in bio. (at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)