better left unsaid

I love snow. Maybe it’s because I live in an apart­ment and some­one else does the shov­el­ling. What­ever the rea­son, I wish we got more in these parts. Most of the time the snow around here is mixed with rain, or it’s just rain itself, and every­thing ends up being soggy and damp and grey and mis­er­able. When there is snow though, there is the most mag­i­cal, deep light. The small­est amount of light is scat­tered in every direc­tion mak­ing it beau­ti­ful and flat with won­der­ful contrast.

There always seems to be a bike locked up along Bar­ring­ton Street — there were two on this morn­ing — almost com­pletely buried under the pre­vi­ous night’s snow­fall. This bike was a good shot because of its dark frame and its undis­turbed blan­ket of snow.

I shot an entire roll dur­ing my twelve minute walk to work that morn­ing, and much of the roll turned out quite nicely. I hope to post a cou­ple more before I move on to some­thing else.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #8 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: Feb­ru­ary, 2010
Loca­tion: 44.646879,-63.573691
Copy­right: 2010 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: blackandwhite · halifax · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia · snow · street · winter
Posted in: Photographs

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