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La Pulente, St Ouen's Bay, Jersey. Taken with a Horizon 202 camera on Velvia 50 film. No messing with saturation, that's how it came out of the camera. The moon and Venus visible top left.
Camera: Leica IIF with the 50mm/3.5 Elmar lens, 1952.
Film: Kodak Portra 160.
Processing: Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia.
This photo was taken with a vintage 72 year old camera, but the scene has changed little since the 1850s. Woolmers was founded by Thomas Archer I (1790-1850), and he was granted convict labour under the assignment system that lasted in Van Diemen's Land until the end of the 1840s. This allowed trusted convicts to work their way to freedom and receive a "Ticket of Leave", enabling them to become accepted citizens of the colony.
Because estate owners like the Archers had to feed, clothe and educate the convicts, the state was relieved of this cost, so the advantages were felt throughout the colony.
NOTE: The light blue spot on the lower left of the frame is a telltale sign of a problem with the cloth shutter curtains leading to the tiniest of light leaks. This is not surprising in a camera of this age, but I'll describe the problem in more detail later on.