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Downhill

On a brush-laden desert hillside above an arroyo of long untended farmland, the shadows from a cluster of joshua trees streak downhill as if they were dark liquid, obeying the law of gravity. The farmland was once watered by an old pump house (www.flickr.com/photos/159681486@N05/53142254477/in/datepo...), just out of the picture on the left, but appears now a part of the dry, open flatland leading down to the Mojave riverbed, beyond the trees in the distance.

 

Camera: Olympus Trip 35 (1967-1984, with Olympus D. Zuiko 40mm f/2.8 lens). The iconic 35mm selenium-metered travel camera, handy even if your travel is just local walks with the dogs :-)

 

Film: 35mm Kodak Plus-X Pan (expired 1998, rolled from bulk), developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 5:15 minutes @ 69 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.

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Uploaded on November 5, 2023