better left unsaid

One of the great things about a waist level viewfinder is the abil­ity to turn the cam­era 90 degrees up and have the abil­ity to com­pose by look­ing straight ahead. Looks really strange when you’re stand­ing there doing it, but it’s worth it. Look at those con­verg­ing lines!

These are some of my favourite build­ings, the archi­tec­ture is bril­liant. My sis­ter used to work in one of these (it may have been this one), way high up. The TD Tow­ers were designed by Mies van der Rohe, one of the pio­neer­ing mas­ters of mod­ern archi­tec­ture. He even designed the font used on the signs of the build­ings. Need­less to say, I spent a good por­tion of my time here that after­noon and got some nice shots.

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Cam­era: Mamiya C33 Pro­fes­sional
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 80mm (Black)
Fil­ter: #8 yel­low
Film: Kodak 320TXP
Devel­oper: Kodak D76 1+1
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 12:30 at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was for the first minute, then four inver­sions per minute.
Date: Jan­u­ary, 2008
Loca­tion: 43.64738,-79.38238
Copy­right: 2008 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: architecture · blackandwhite · mamiyaC33 · mediumformat · ontario · winter
Posted in: Photographs

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