Broken Hill Then, Now Just Broken - a photo on Flickriver

            I cannot expect anyone else to see what I do in this old soft photo.  Though the image quality was not great and my scanner is a $100 toy, the results are vastly better than the old commercial print I had done at the time.  Even though it lacks razor sharpness, to my eyes the shot has a distinctive quality that only film seems to give.

My wife has died recently and since I cannot photograph her anymore, I am reduced to sifting through old films to take "new" photos.  This was shot on a holiday in the desert outback mining town of Broken Hill in the NSW outback.  It was on the Line of Lode Memorial to the many miners who lost their lives in the town's history, and in extraordinary clear late afternoon desert sun, streaming in horizontally and setting aglow my wife and the russet iron colours of the memorial's weathering steel.  It was beautiful, but tricky for photography.  The colours are just as they were imprinted on my memory, with my wife's top, if not precisely complementary to the patina, then an least complimentary.  But now I only have eyes for the look in my beloved's own eyes and the characteristic tilt of her head. I can tell she was viewing me tenderly...*

Film AGFA VISTA 200  (My wife could have told me when this was taken, but alas I cannot.  According to Wikipedia, the film was available between 2001 and 2005. The camera was almost certainly a Minolta DYNAX 500si with an AF 35-70mm zoom. At the time, zoom lenses were probably more noticeably inferior to prime lenses than they are today, but some of the softness here is due to a bit of cropping in order to make more of a portrait than I did when taking the shot.)

* Though when looking for other attributes, it strikes me that my wife's shadow on the memorial, a little way behind her, gives some suggestion of three dimensionality to the image overall.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Broken Hill (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2004

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Camera: Film Scanner , f/2.8, 1/30 sec, 0mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Film Scanner
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	0mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-0.66 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Unknown (13924)
Metering Mode:	Multi-spot
White Balance:	Unknown (288)
Sharpness:	Soft
Color Space:	sRGB
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