Pontiac

Last spring I went out on a day trip with my brother-in-law Shawn.  Sadly he is not in good health, less than a year later.  He is in the Mazankowski Heart Institute in Edmonton, awaiting surgery to implant an artificial heart.  Wishing him all the best, as I reminisce about our outing 11 months ago.

We went out exploring to the northeast of Edmonton.  Shawn had never gone on a photo day trip with me before, so this was a first for him.  He was plunking around with a digital camera that he had recently started using.

We found this old Pontiac, overgrown in the bush at the edge of a farmers field.  Obviously it had been there for quite some time.  I'm not sure of the vintage of this one.... 1970's I would guess....?

This shot was taken on a sheet of Kodak High Speed Infrared film.  Kodak stopped manufacturing this film in the late 1990s.  I still have several boxes of 4"x5" left in my freezer and have been slowly trying to use it up.  This particular sheet hit its best before date in August of 2001.  I loaded it into a film holder on May 25th last year, and exposed it the next day.  After exposure I unloaded the holder and stored the exposed sheet in my fridge until I developed it on March 20th this year.  I find that now that this film is getting really old, I only get reasonable results if I don't let it lay around too long at room temperature or warmer.  So I will make a point of making the best use that I can of the stock that I have left.  Development was in Kodak T-Max Developer, 1:6, for 6:45 minutes at 24C.

I shot this image on May 26th 2025, at about 2:00 in the afternoon.  I used my Ebony SV45TU view camera and a wide 110mm lens.  A #25 Red filter blocked much of the visible light, so that the film was exposed mostly by IR wavelengths.  As a result I did NOT compensate with any filter factor, and the film was rated at 100iso.  The exposure was for 1/8 second at F22.0.