Clock Tower in Winter

Decem­ber 23, 2011, Date­line Spokane, WA–

On one of the colder nights of the year (some­thing in the teens– it wasn’t a bad win­ter) I went out to get some shots of fog and “hoar­frost”. I took both my Canon DSLR and my Bron­ica GS-1, a medium for­mat film cam­era. This shot was taken with the Bron­ica (6×7 cm neg­a­tive.) We usu­ally get some frozen fog at least once per year, some years bet­ter than oth­ers. I’ve had two chances this year, these shots from Decem­ber 23rd and another round in Jan­u­ary. These con­di­tions cre­ate some of the most inter­est­ing light con­di­tions– dif­fuse light ema­nat­ing from var­i­ous sources, unique tex­tures of plant life under frost, water with wisps of fog, soft­ness every­where. Now that I have my 2,000+ “artis­tic” images all in one Aper­ture Library I’ll be able to sort and share them here on the web­site and in my Smug­Mug account. (It’s about time!)