Lake Weyba, Past Imperfect

[Maris]

Lake Weyba, Past Imperfect
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.4cm X 21.3cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X Pan Professional negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a home assembled 150mm f4 Wollaston Meniscus soft-focus lens and a #25 red filter.

The piece of film used here had spent 15years lying in the film holder before exposure so I knew it was bad. What better than to shoot it with a "bad" lens? Maybe the result would be twee or at least strange.
The blurry figures in the background are kite surfers walking into the lake. They had no fear of the giant stingrays and bull sharks lurking out there. Or so they said.

[Mick Fagan]

Very interesting, not quite an abstract image, but getting there.

My first thought was that 15 years is a long time, then I remembered I have 6 sheets in a Grafmatic holder full of HP5+, which has been there pre-Covid.

The white snow like, or star like bits, certainly is a plus for being different. A great idea to use what you have and see what you get.

Do they have sharks and sting rays in a lake? I'm assuming there must be a way for these to get into the lake.

[Maris]

Yes Mick, this brackish lake connects to the sea via Weyba Creek. And it does contain Large Format marine life. A few years ago a couple of guys fishing for bream in Eenie Creek, a very minor tributary of Lake Weyba, caught a 2.8 metre bull shark that was longer than the creek was wide. The fishermen killed the shark and strung it up for photographs but got into strife with the National Parks Service for harming a protected animal!