Apple Tree

I was driving backroads, exploring with my camera, in April of 1999.  I saw this solitary tree out in a field north of Warburg.  So I ended up taking a couple of photographs of it.  In those days I was using a very bulky and heavy Sinar monorail view camera.

This shot was taken on a sheet of Kodak High Speed Infrared film, on April 11th 1999 at about noon.  I used my Sinar camera and a wide Nikkor 75mm lens.  The use of infrared film dictated that I had to use a #25 Red Filter.  The film was processed in Kodak T-Max Developer, 1:6, for 7:00 minutes at 20C.  The exposure was for 1/15 second at F25.0.

Fast forward years later and I learned that this Apple Tree was once in the farm yard of a friend of ours.  Brenda grew up here, until the land was taken over for a coal mine for the Genesee power plant.  We became friends with Brenda and her husband Mike when our daughters ended up in school together.  Hailey and Emily are still friends, over twenty years later.  At the time that I took this photo, the girls weren't even born yet.

Some years ago I framed a large print of this same tree, from a different negative, taken at the same time.  That one hangs at Brenda and Mike's house.  Recently Brenda asked me to make three smaller 8x10 prints of this second negative.  She is going to gift them to her siblings this Christmas.

I managed to finish them up and get them mounted and matted before I took off to Nordegg.  Brenda will pick them up from our house while I am away.