My on-again, off-again relationship with ice

            My ode to Fuji Acros, which is not long for this world.  As with winter, the inexorable spin of the planet and the relentless pull of time and progress have their way eventually.  Acros will be a memory, but what memories it will have made.  This roll, for example, exposed on a frozen lake in the middle of the Canadian Rocky nowhere, with the wind howling and the temperatures brutally low.  

Tangentially, I'm a winter guy.  I love snow.  I love ice.  I love the quiet that both bring.  But winter comes and goes such that despite how well we get along, we always part.  But we part with promises to reunite again when we can.  Eventually time will break that promise but til then...

I am disappointed to see Acros break that promise, but it is a fact of life as a film photographer.  I have seen more films come and go in my years than films currently available.  Weirdly enough, I am ok with this and that is largely because I have images like this.  It is worth it to live through the demise of Acros because I had this chance to make this image with it.  And not to sound callous, but there are other films.

Still, I will miss this stuff.

Hasselblad 500C
Fuji Acros

Taken on: March 17, 2017

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