Pembroke, Nova Scotia
Taken back in September of 1998 (in my pre-digital "film days"), this shows the type of "clutter" you can expect to find when walking around near the wharf of many small fishing communities in Nova Scotia. Pembroke (Yarmouth County... not the Pembroke up in Hants County), was always a gold mine of subject material and always on my list of places to stop and explore when in southern NS. This particular arrangement of material caught my eye and I spent about 20 minutes working in this spot... getting many images from a variety of angles and distances. I was using a Mamiya C33 twin lens reflex with a 65mm f/3.5 lens, loaded with Kodak Tmax 100 film. Unlike with most of my recent digital shooting, I was traveling "heavy", with a very weighty Gitzo tripod and a wheelie bag loaded with gear.
This particular trip to Nova Scotia was as enjoyable as all my others until my stay in Indian Harbor on September 2. I finished the day shooting around East and West Dover, had a great dinner in Peggy's Cove, drove up the bay to Tantallon, eventually returning to the motel and went over my plans for shooting along the "French Shore" from around Digby to Yarmouth, and beyond over the next week. Around 3:30 AM I was awakened by all sorts of noise and bright lights outside. Getting dressed and looking into what was up I found that Swissair flight 111 had crashed a few miles up the bay. The parking lot was a "bedlam" of activity... most noticeable were the satellite dish news trucks and vans, plus the faint odor of jet fuel. I checked out fairly early and headed for Digby as planned, catching up on the news over the next several days.
I was organizing my negative / transparency archive last night... plastic bins full of hanging sleeves loaded with 120 film images, when I decided I might as well scan a few. This one came out especially nice. I really like how three dimensional the coils of rope appear.
Pembroke NS 9-1998 IMG-2
Pembroke, Nova Scotia
Taken back in September of 1998 (in my pre-digital "film days"), this shows the type of "clutter" you can expect to find when walking around near the wharf of many small fishing communities in Nova Scotia. Pembroke (Yarmouth County... not the Pembroke up in Hants County), was always a gold mine of subject material and always on my list of places to stop and explore when in southern NS. This particular arrangement of material caught my eye and I spent about 20 minutes working in this spot... getting many images from a variety of angles and distances. I was using a Mamiya C33 twin lens reflex with a 65mm f/3.5 lens, loaded with Kodak Tmax 100 film. Unlike with most of my recent digital shooting, I was traveling "heavy", with a very weighty Gitzo tripod and a wheelie bag loaded with gear.
This particular trip to Nova Scotia was as enjoyable as all my others until my stay in Indian Harbor on September 2. I finished the day shooting around East and West Dover, had a great dinner in Peggy's Cove, drove up the bay to Tantallon, eventually returning to the motel and went over my plans for shooting along the "French Shore" from around Digby to Yarmouth, and beyond over the next week. Around 3:30 AM I was awakened by all sorts of noise and bright lights outside. Getting dressed and looking into what was up I found that Swissair flight 111 had crashed a few miles up the bay. The parking lot was a "bedlam" of activity... most noticeable were the satellite dish news trucks and vans, plus the faint odor of jet fuel. I checked out fairly early and headed for Digby as planned, catching up on the news over the next several days.
I was organizing my negative / transparency archive last night... plastic bins full of hanging sleeves loaded with 120 film images, when I decided I might as well scan a few. This one came out especially nice. I really like how three dimensional the coils of rope appear.
Pembroke NS 9-1998 IMG-2