better left unsaid

I took my life into my hands walk­ing down the gov­ern­ment wharf in West­port. Even though there was one of those annoy­ing Eco­nomic Action Plan signs planted next to it, this struc­ture is scary. When you’re on a wharf and the planks are bend­ing and crack­ing below your feet you tend to step lightly and care­fully. Prob­lem is it pro­vided some inter­est­ing views so I couldn’t resist.

There were some things lying around on the wharf — a lawn­mower? — that had obvi­ously been left by smarter peo­ple flee­ing the dan­ger. Again, I couldn’t resist so I spent a few min­utes shoot­ing. I had a sus­pi­cion the locals had the vil­lage emer­gency crew on hold as they watched me out there. The risk was worth it though as I got a cou­ple of nice shots.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #15 deep yel­low
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Devel­oper: Kodak XTOL 1+3
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 14 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for the first minute, then five inver­sions per minute.
Date: Novem­ber, 2009
Loca­tion: 44.258325,-66.348498
Copy­right: 2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: blackandwhite · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia · rural
Posted in: Photographs

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