better left unsaid

I needed a walk over the Thanks­giv­ing week­end, and as the sun was shin­ing I decided to set out from home and walk around the penin­sula for a few hours with my cam­era. I hadn’t done much explor­ing in the mid­dle part of the penin­sula, so I hiked over the Citadel and made my way in that gen­eral direction.

I found myself on the com­mon where there was lit­tle going on, prob­a­bly due to the hol­i­day, so it was nice to take my time and wan­der. I headed up Cunard Street toward Wind­sor Street, then onto Chebucto Road where the Mar­itime Con­ser­va­tory of Per­form­ing Arts has its home. Did you know that the base­ment of this school served as a makeshift morgue dur­ing the Hal­i­fax Explo­sion? Amazing.

Many of the trees in the city seemed to have gone from full crown to empty in a mat­ter of days. The trees along the side­walk had lost all of theirs and cast some great shad­ows over the side of the Con­ser­va­tory. The shad­ows com­bined with the bright mid­day sun make for inter­est­ing pat­terns. I find this photo a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to look at as there is so much going on, but the repeated rec­tan­gles of the win­dows and doors pro­vide some structure.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: #15 deep yel­low
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Devel­oper: Rod­i­nal 1+100
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 18 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for 15 sec­onds each minute for the first three min­utes, then one inver­sion every three min­utes.
Date: Octo­ber, 2009
Loca­tion: 44.649743,-63.598435
Copy­right: 2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: architecture · autumn · blackandwhite · halifax · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia
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