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Nine
The last nine rough-hewn fenceposts of a sporadic and forgotten fenceline, trailing fencing wire, stretch across the sandy soil of a wide desert arroyo to end abruptly among the joshua trees and dry brush. Someone in the distant past, likely long before the arrival of the houses on the hilltop, invested in the hard work of transporting the posts and sinking them into the ground—not an easy task—but the purpose and importance of this truncated fenceline, ending in the emptiness of open country, is a mystery.
Camera: Vesna (весна) 2 (1964-1966, with T-43 40mm f/4 lens, static.wikia.nocookie.net/camerapedia/images/b/bc/Vesna_2...). A compact little 35mm viewfinder camera made by MMZ in Minsk, Belarus. "Vesna" translates from Russian as "Spring," and "весна" is the Russian spelling. Perhaps the most singular feature of the Vesna is its format: though it is a 35mm camera, its images are 24mm x 32mm instead of the common 24 x 36. It's one of the few cameras which use this format, sometimes called the "nippon" format because it became briefly popular after World War II among four Japanese camera makers (Minolta, Nikon, Tokyo Kogaku, and Olympus) to accomodate a nation-wide shortage of film stock.
Film: 35mm Kodak Shellburst 346 (expired 1966). Like the Kodak Linagraph Shellburst 2476 I used for my January 127 Day image this year, the Shellburst 346 was originally developed for military use in recording aerial shell explosions, and came from Adam Paul's ClassicFilmShop on Etsy. Developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 6:10 minutes @ 71 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.
Nine
The last nine rough-hewn fenceposts of a sporadic and forgotten fenceline, trailing fencing wire, stretch across the sandy soil of a wide desert arroyo to end abruptly among the joshua trees and dry brush. Someone in the distant past, likely long before the arrival of the houses on the hilltop, invested in the hard work of transporting the posts and sinking them into the ground—not an easy task—but the purpose and importance of this truncated fenceline, ending in the emptiness of open country, is a mystery.
Camera: Vesna (весна) 2 (1964-1966, with T-43 40mm f/4 lens, static.wikia.nocookie.net/camerapedia/images/b/bc/Vesna_2...). A compact little 35mm viewfinder camera made by MMZ in Minsk, Belarus. "Vesna" translates from Russian as "Spring," and "весна" is the Russian spelling. Perhaps the most singular feature of the Vesna is its format: though it is a 35mm camera, its images are 24mm x 32mm instead of the common 24 x 36. It's one of the few cameras which use this format, sometimes called the "nippon" format because it became briefly popular after World War II among four Japanese camera makers (Minolta, Nikon, Tokyo Kogaku, and Olympus) to accomodate a nation-wide shortage of film stock.
Film: 35mm Kodak Shellburst 346 (expired 1966). Like the Kodak Linagraph Shellburst 2476 I used for my January 127 Day image this year, the Shellburst 346 was originally developed for military use in recording aerial shell explosions, and came from Adam Paul's ClassicFilmShop on Etsy. Developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 6:10 minutes @ 71 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.