Nova Scotia, in Glorious Colour!

 

This is a follow-up to a blog post from last year, which was of images in black and white.  So these are images I captured more than a year ago. 


Why so long before posting? The chemicals for colour developing are for batches of 8 or 16 rolls, and they have a limited shelf life, so I have been letting the exposed colour film accumulate until I once again had a sufficient number to warrant mixing up a batch of chemistry.  This didn’t happen, as I don’t often shoot in colour, so these two rolls of film collected dust until I decided to send them off for processing.

 

To recap: Mid-June 2024 brought me to Nova Scotia on business, and I had the opportunity for another photowalk with my friend Ross Johnson. Upon arrival in Halifax, and after my first meeting, a break in the schedule before a working dinner gave us the chance to zip over to Peggy’s Cove.  And while we did not have enough time to wander about the village, we did go out to the lighthouse to snap some shots of the shore, the lighthouse, and of Ross taking long exposures on his Nikon D850. 

 

These images were captured on the Hasselblad 500 C/M with the spectacular Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm lens.  The film is another re-spooled motion picture film, CineStill 50D, which CineStill bills as “The world’s sharpest and finest grain color negative film!”

 

The colours are fantastic! Note that these are not manipulated RAW digital images  but what was captured on the film, shooting in daylight with the Hasselblad.

 

First, the lighthouse from two distances. And here’s the thing with a prime lens: you zoom with your feet:





 

Ross with the D850:




 

Some views of the lighthouse:








 

Some views of the shore, playing with depth of field, note the light leak in some of these images, I likely did not wrap the film tight enough when taking it out of the film back:






 

The second roll was shot in and around Digby, where I was moderating a panel at a conference. Staying at the Digby Pines Resort, a beautiful spot, the gardens are spectacular, and just down the road from the Point Prim lighthouse (Point Prim, NS, not to be confused with Point Prim PEI).

 

Same camera and lens combo as Peggy’s Cove, but not the same film: this was Kodak Gold 200, described on one blog as: “It's a consumer grade film to shoot non-professional photos with for regular peasants like you and me.” I have had very good results with this film, and again this time, it did not disappoint.

 

One early Digby morning, I made my way to Point Prim, past the ferry dock. As the sun was rising, the fog bank was slowly lifting off the water, revealing a fishing boat heading out into the Bay of Fundy:











 

The lighthouse at sunrise:





 

The shore below the lighthouse:





 

The gardens at the Digby Pines:





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