burnt embers

Last week I was stranded on Quadra Island by a heavy and persistent snow fall. The roads were pretty bad and I only have summer tires since we rarely get snow on the south end of Vancouver Island. After looking at the highway webcams over the 300km drive I was facing, I decided to stay on Quadra and continue to get things done towards a research project I will be participating in next summer. It took 3 days for things to clear up enough to head south safely.

One thing I learned, one of those things I probably used to know, is just how difficult it is to take an OK photograph in the snow, especially in black and white. It was very beautiful out, which of course means the camera comes out too, and then a lot of film is wasted. Even so, I got a few pictures I am happy with, and more with the DSLR that sometime I will work on as well.

I think these two shots echo each other nicely, the wood slat deer fence and the tree trunks end up looking a lot like each other. Especially in thumbnail sizes.

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These continue my series of half-frame photos from the Olympus Pen, and these are both of the fliptych and diptych varieties. These are all adjacent shots on the film-strip, taken as multiple frames with the intent to scan as single images. Click on the photos to see them larger.

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Olympus Pen half-frame camera, 28mm 3.5 lens, Rollei Superpan 200 film, Gossen Luna-Pro lightmeter.

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