Tangier Island marshes
As seen on Tangier Island out in the Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia island is about 1.2 square miles of land and has a shrinking population of around 490. Each year the island loses feet of shoreline to erosion, subsidence of the soft soil it is built on, the lapping waves from the west as storms and large ship traffic take their toll and the rising levels of the bay waters. Depending on who's ongoing scientific study you believe in, the island has approximately 25-50 years of inhabitable years left. The Watermen who work the fishing boats and crab shacks around the island are a hard-working, brave bunch who in recent years been slapped with a cap on new commercial fishing licenses issued by the government most likely making them the last generation of Tangier Island's citizens who will ever call the bay water's their workplace.
Technical details:
Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera with a Bronica Zenzanon 65mm F4 PS lens.
Hoya yellow-green filter on lens.
Ilford HP5+ film shot at ISO 400.
Semi-stand development using Kodak HC-110 1+100 dilution for 1 hour with 30 seconds initial agitation with swizzle stick and three turns @ 30 minute mark. Paterson 3 reel tank.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders fitted with ANR glass.
Tangier Island marshes
As seen on Tangier Island out in the Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia island is about 1.2 square miles of land and has a shrinking population of around 490. Each year the island loses feet of shoreline to erosion, subsidence of the soft soil it is built on, the lapping waves from the west as storms and large ship traffic take their toll and the rising levels of the bay waters. Depending on who's ongoing scientific study you believe in, the island has approximately 25-50 years of inhabitable years left. The Watermen who work the fishing boats and crab shacks around the island are a hard-working, brave bunch who in recent years been slapped with a cap on new commercial fishing licenses issued by the government most likely making them the last generation of Tangier Island's citizens who will ever call the bay water's their workplace.
Technical details:
Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera with a Bronica Zenzanon 65mm F4 PS lens.
Hoya yellow-green filter on lens.
Ilford HP5+ film shot at ISO 400.
Semi-stand development using Kodak HC-110 1+100 dilution for 1 hour with 30 seconds initial agitation with swizzle stick and three turns @ 30 minute mark. Paterson 3 reel tank.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders fitted with ANR glass.