better left unsaid

The build­ing on the left is the BMO Build­ing. The build­ing on the right is the back side of this guy. I like how tall build­ings in fog bring the “ceil­ing” down, with­out them it’s just a thick white mass some­where up there. But when there are tall build­ings pierc­ing the mass up above, it lends a real sense of cover, sort of like crown mold­ing in a room. It defines what usu­ally feels like end­less, unbro­ken height. I find even in chilly, damp fog the sense of an actual ceil­ing makes being out­side a lit­tle more cozy.

Also, 100th post!

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #8 yel­low
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Devel­oper: Rod­i­nal 1+100
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 18 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for 15 sec­onds at the begin­ning of each of the first three min­utes, then one inver­sion every three min­utes.
Date: April, 2010
Loca­tion: 44.649252,-63.572991
Copy­right: 2010 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: architecture · blackandwhite · fog · halifax · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia
Posted in: Photographs
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