Trap Pond Cypress Grove

[David_MC]

Headed out to a local state park named Trap Pond. Trap Pond has the distinction of containing the northern most naturally occurring grove of Bald Cypress Tress in the USA. Bald Cypress are a deciduous conifer so they change colors in the fall and drop their needles. Went out that morning with a film setup consisting for a Canon A-1, FD 28-75 f/4, FD 70-210 f/4, and a few rolls of Portra 800. The 28-75 stayed in the bag as I was getting all of my shots with the 70-210. I intentionally overexposed the film by one stop (exposing at ISO 400) to keep detail in the shadows. Finally got some scans back from the developer and was quite pleased with the results.

1)
DavidCov025221-R1-020 by David Covarrubias, on Flickr

2)
DavidCov025221-R1-023 by David Covarrubias, on Flickr

3)
DavidCov025221-R1-026 by David Covarrubias, on Flickr

[Isac]

Beautiful trees and colours are great. Thanks for the info on those trees, we don't have them here in WA. Good that you still use the film. I haven't used film since my Minolta-Hi-Matic-E 35mm back in 1970. Well done and thanks for sharing. Always good to see things from the opposite hemisphere.

[David_MC]

Thanks. I need to visit this location again in a couple of weeks when they hit their peak color. They should be a nice orange/russet color then.

[Isac]

I'll wait for more !

[wigz]

Beautiful colours David. I think #3 is my favourite here - I think the composition has the trees standing out better against the background.

I still dabble with film using a few cameras. Restarted using my old Minolta 35mm SLR about 6 years ago, got back into processing B&W, colour negative and transparencies again as well. I stick to B&W now as the colour chemicals can be hard to get here and have a short shelf life.

[David_MC]

Its really is a different experience than shooting digital. Makes for a pretty nice change of pace.

[avkomp]

good work on these. especially from film and scanned.

you could even pop the saturation and contrast on these if that way inclined.