better left unsaid

Well, since it’s Thanks­giv­ing and the time of year when the colours are going full blast on the hill­sides, I thought I’d post a some­what postcard-like shot I took a cou­ple of years ago around this time. This year may get rained out so it’s one from the archives.

When I printed this – on the last and now gone wet chem­istry colour printer in Nova Sco­tia – and showed it to my instruc­tor he said it was pedes­trian, unin­ter­est­ing and that I was capa­ble of so much bet­ter. He was right of course, but how could I not have taken it. I mean, look at those colours! Yes, it’s very touristy and you couldn’t get more cliché if you tried, but so what. When you have lived for ten years in a part of the coun­try that doesn’t get fall colours like these, well, you get a lit­tle excited when you do finally get them, crit­i­cism be damned.

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Cam­era: Mamiya C33 Pro­fes­sional
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm (Black)
Fil­ter: none
Film: Fuji Pro 160S
Devel­oper: C41
Devel­op­ment: Lab processed in C41 chem­istry.
Date: Octo­ber 2007
Loca­tion: 44.423929,-65.251018
Copy­right: 2007 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: autumn · colour · mamiyaC33 · mediumformat · novascotia
Posted in: Photographs

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