Duck Pond

Another of my attempts in the early 1990s to document Bowring Park, my
favourite urban park. This picture was late October or early November 1991.
The pool here was dug out by hand in 1912 and populated henceforward
with duck and swans. Today they are joined by hundreds of pigeons and
happy rats, too.

I liked using Agfachrome 100 RC film back then and generally had much
better luck with it than with, say, Velvia which I was also using at
the time. This was shot in my Voigtlander Bessa, an old 6x9cm folding
camera with hairy edges around the film frame. It is actually just
two 6x9 frames but, having scanned them whole, I lined them up in such
a way that they appear to be three smaller frames. My file for this
image is nearly fifty MB and I had to scale it down to just 3 MB to
upload it for posting.

My note, by the way, tell me i shot it at a fifth of a second, at f/22.
Clearly I was using a tripod, which I rarely do these days!