better left unsaid

Brier Island, Nova Sco­tia is a neat spot. The most west­erly point of the province, you have to drive all the way down a nar­row strip of land — Digby Neck — and take two quick fer­ries to get there. The island itself is rel­a­tively small and is made of basalt. I think basalt is one of the neat­est geo­log­i­cal for­ma­tions you can come across, it seems to have quite a bit of inter­est­ing geom­e­try and tex­ture. Plus it comes from lava. I will go out on a limb here and say that this stuff is tholei­itic basalt but since my school­ing was more about trees and less about geol­ogy I’m prob­a­bly mistaken.

It would’ve been nice to have had more time to explore the island, but this time of year the days are short and the light a lit­tle harsh. I think I’d like to go back in the spring or sum­mer and walk the island. The hos­tel there is appar­ently pretty good.

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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: 44.254886,-66.341132
Copy­right: 2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: blackandwhite · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia · ocean · rock
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