Ice Detail

This is a much more recent photograph.  This is part of the recently processed batch of Kodak T-Max 100.  I ran this batch on December 15th.  I actually ran about five batches of film over the holidays.  This was while I was laid up with sciatica, and the fresh incision in my leg.  The film was rated at 80iso and given normal development in 510 Pyro, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes at 24c.

This is a detail shot of the ice at the shoreline of Abraham Lake.  This was taken on December 4th at about 1:00 in the afternoon.  I was at Preachers Point, where the lake had begun to freeze.  The rest of the lake still remained open, though with the recent cold weather much of it has probably since frozen.

The dark area at the lower right is a little bit of open water right at the shore.  The dark area at the upper left is smooth ice.  In between there is an area of significant methane bubbles.  The level of the reservoir continually drops over the winter and this results in broken slabs of ice, and sometimes a little open water right at the edges.

I shot this with my Ebony SV45Ti view camera and a long 300mm lens.  A #25 Red filter lowered the value of the ice and water and made the bubbles stand out a little more.  The exposure was for 1 second at F29.0.