better left unsaid

This pho­to­graph is titled Iron Gate, Hal­i­fax, Decem­ber 2007 and was taken on a very cold Jan­u­ary day in the city by the sea. This was another of those days where I thought my cam­era was going to com­pletely freeze up from the cold. There may not be bat­ter­ies in those old cam­eras, but the shut­ters are lubri­cated. When it’s cold enough to freeze the lubri­ca­tion, it’s time to go inside.

There’s lots of inter­est­ing stuff to be found wan­der­ing the streets. This piece of iron gate was stad­ing by itself where the rest of the fence used to be. I’m not sure why this was left but I’m glad it was. It has this amaz­ing, dark, worn tex­ture that con­trasted per­fectly with the snowy lawn behind it.

The cam­era and pho­tog­ra­pher may have given up from the cold but the image lives on. Besides, I had the streets to myself.

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Cam­era: Mamiya C33 Pro­fes­sional
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm (Black)
Fil­ter: #8 yel­low
Film: Ilford HP5+ 400
Devel­oper: Kodak D76 1+3
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 20 min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for the first minute, then four inver­sions per minute.
Date: Decem­ber, 2007
Loca­tion: 44.63223,-63.57476
Copy­right: 2007 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: architecture · blackandwhite · halifax · mediumformat · novascotia · winter
Posted in: Photographs

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