Prayer Flags

This is a scan of an 8x10 color negative that I processed back in late March.  At that time I mixed up a batch of C-41 chemistry and developed all of the exposed color negative film that I had accumulated.  That was mostly 4"x5" stuff, but there was a little 35mm and a few sheets of 8"x10"... including this one.  This chemistry was run on my Jobo processor as, like the E-6 process, C-41 requires a high process temperature.

These prayer flags, and the sweat lodge in the background center, were in the burned area of the Kootenay Plains, on public land.  The Spreading Creek Burn roared through the area over a decade ago and the regrowth has been amazing.  The area is sacred to first nations people.

This is a sheet of Kodak Portra 160VC.  I shot this on July 1st of 2025 at about 5:00 in the afternoon.  I used my Chamonix 810V view camera and a Nikkor 240mm lens.  The exposure was for 1/15 second at F36.0.  

Like most of my color film, this sheet was outdated too... though the color held up as pretty realistic.  The best before date was December of 2009.  I loaded the film in June of 2011, and it sat around in my darkroom until I exposed it in 2025.  About three months after I exposed it I unloaded the film and stored it in the fridge until I processed it on March 23rd of this year.