MacConnell's Mill, Pa, 2009
No, I wish this shot was taken this February, but it was taken last February on our first visit to MacConnell’s Mill about 35 minutes north of us. Today we received another four inches or so; this winter in Pittsburgh is now officially about to crack into 4th place on the all-time list for most snow in a winter since they’ve been keeping records.
The bright spot today was discovered as I scanned a roll of HP5 that clearly I had exposed last February on a trip back from Mesa. On the same roll were many wonderful images of the woods in winter on a cloudy day such as the one above. Nice tones and detail, exposed with my Ftb and 35mm f/2 FD lens, a lens whose virtues I have extolled in the past. Also on that roll were shots from a trip to Saguaro National Park, so pretty obviously I went there right after I returned to Arizona.
Developed in Rodinal, Mr. Paul
That’s one thing that is nice about film. If you leave it in your camera, it can accompany you on many different journeys all on the same roll. I just developed a roll of film today that had been sitting around for a while. It shots from Charleston as well as 4 stragglers from my last trip to NYC. I was quite surprised as I thought that I had developed all of them.
I know I’m not the only one to talk about getting some emotional distance from a shoot before you make selects. Winogrand left rolls undeveloped for years for exactly that reason.