Dead Trunks

This is a scan of a 4" x 5" sheet of Kodak T-Max 100.  I developed this batch on December 18th in 510 Pyro, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes, at 24C.  The film was rated at 80iso and given Normal development.

This is a spot near my cottage in Nordegg.  There was once a beaver dam on this small creek, but in recent months the dam was breached and the water level dropped.  That left these bleached dead tree trunks that had drowned in the high water.  I'm not sure if the dam was blasted out by humans or just naturally deteriorated and collapsed.  This creek is some distance away from any roads or infrastructure, so it seems unlikely the dam was blasted?

At one time I thought that I might have accidentally fogged a number of sheets of this film.  I discovered as I was loading some film, that I had left a power bar plugged in and turned on, and there was a small LED light glowing.  At the price of film, I didn't want to throw away a dozen or so sheets of film, and so I took a chance and used it.  I labelled the film holders as I loaded and used this stuff, and made a point of not shooting anything that was irreplaceable.  I also shot duplicates on another type of film, as I usually do.  This is one of those sheets that I suspected of being fogged, but I can't see any evidence of a problem.

I shot this image on August 18th 2024 at about 4:30 in the afternoon.  Chris and Connie were visiting us out at Nordegg that weekend, and this was during an ATV ride when Chris and I went out exploring.  I used my Ebony SV45Ti view camera and a long 300mm lens.  The exposure was for 1 second at F58.0.