Monday, November 9, 2026

Blackstone Avens

This is a scan of one of my recently processed negatives.  This is from the batch that I developed on October 28th.  This is a sheet of Kodak T-Max 100, rated at 80iso, and processed for normal contrast.  Development was in 510 Pyro developer, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes, at 24C.
I took this photograph earlier this year.  These are mountain avens that have gone to seed.  There are a lot of them all over the west country, but they are particularly prevalent along the gravel bars of the Blackstone River.  This is one of our favorite places, and it is along the Forestry Trunk Road, north of our place in Nordegg.  The girls and I love to come here to go hiking and exploring, collecting rocks, doing a little photography, and sometime fly fishing.
I shot this on September 2nd of 2026 at about 3:10 in the afternoon.  Margarit and I were out for a walk along the river, with Hank.  I used my Ebony SV45Ti view camera and a wide Nikkor 65mm lens.  A #8 Yellow filter increased contrast a little, and created a bit of separation in the sky.  The exposure was for 1/15 second at F20.0.


 

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