Lower Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
Taken about a quarter mile before you turn right onto Bear Point Road (going east on Rt 3), in Lower Shag Harbour. Fog was forecast so I was spending the day exploring along Route 3 between Yarmouth and Barrington. This boat looked like it had drifted up into the marsh on an exceptionally high tide and was left stranded. The nearest water was about 75 yards away to my left and this didn't look like a spot anyone would have found convenient to leave their boat. There was absolutely no breeze and black flies were present in impressive numbers. When changing roll film holders I had to be careful one of these pests didn't get inside the camera body. This has happened on several occasions when changing film holders on a Century Graphic... evidence of the unwanted intruder being discovered as "squashed bug" damage in the processed film. After pulling the dark slide the fly would land on the film and get mashed as it passed over the film roller while advancing the film for the next exposure.
Mamiya Universal Press 23, Mamiya 75mm f5.6 lens, Ektachrome 100 film (120), 6x9 roll holder.
This is an image from an Ektachrome 100 6cm x 9cm transparency copied with a Nikon D3500 camera, Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 lens fitted with a Nikon 4T close-up lens, with a Sigma 1.6x achromatic close-up lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a 5000K LED bulb in a small goose-neck table lamp. A large ground glass screen was placed between the lamp and the film holder.
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Lower Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
Taken about a quarter mile before you turn right onto Bear Point Road (going east on Rt 3), in Lower Shag Harbour. Fog was forecast so I was spending the day exploring along Route 3 between Yarmouth and Barrington. This boat looked like it had drifted up into the marsh on an exceptionally high tide and was left stranded. The nearest water was about 75 yards away to my left and this didn't look like a spot anyone would have found convenient to leave their boat. There was absolutely no breeze and black flies were present in impressive numbers. When changing roll film holders I had to be careful one of these pests didn't get inside the camera body. This has happened on several occasions when changing film holders on a Century Graphic... evidence of the unwanted intruder being discovered as "squashed bug" damage in the processed film. After pulling the dark slide the fly would land on the film and get mashed as it passed over the film roller while advancing the film for the next exposure.
Mamiya Universal Press 23, Mamiya 75mm f5.6 lens, Ektachrome 100 film (120), 6x9 roll holder.
This is an image from an Ektachrome 100 6cm x 9cm transparency copied with a Nikon D3500 camera, Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 lens fitted with a Nikon 4T close-up lens, with a Sigma 1.6x achromatic close-up lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a 5000K LED bulb in a small goose-neck table lamp. A large ground glass screen was placed between the lamp and the film holder.
D3500-DSC1319J