World 127 Film Day: The rose bush at the edge of our property

            I had hoped to have my Sawyer's Mark IV tlr ready for use on 12 July
World 127 Day (sometimes called World Summer 127 Day to distinguish it
from January 27th, the other World 127 Day).  The Twelfth of July is,
in these parts, also known as The Glorious Twelfth or, as a friend of
mine calls it, Battle of the Boyne Day.  Thus, hereabouts, many of us
get a holiday for it, now PC-called "the mid-July holiday" but still
known popularly as Orangemen's Day.  I argued in print once that we
should simply call it Newfoundland Day or some other name to indicate
the inclusive history of the place, to jettison all the historical
luggage of its commemoration of a very nasty set of circumstances in
Ireland.  But still the name stands at least as a token commemoration
of King William's smashing of Irish independence. I think that's
terrible.

But I'm glad to have the holiday.  And now I can can happily
call it World 127 Film Day.  So, on July twelfth this year, just  over
a week ago, I was happy to shoot 127 film.  Sadly, though, my Mark IV
was unable to do its job, and I fell back to my Yashica 44, an
excellent camera in its own right.  I shot two rolls of film before
daylight ended and this image was on one of them.  It is the
generations-old rose bush ("rose tree") that indicates the boundary
between the properties that Ganny Cove locals still call Uncle Art's
and Uncle Sandy's.

Macocolor 200 film, at least in the version I'm using here (expired
Jan 2008), does not wind fully tight on its spools; thus light leaks
are very common on the edges and sometimes well into the images.   I
scanned the negative on my 12- or 13-year-old flatbed Acer Prisascan
620T scanner at its best rate, 600 dpi.
   

Taken on: July 20, 2009

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Macocolor 200

Yashica 44

light leaks

summer glorious summer

I don't love another shrub as much as I love wild roses

Red, pink or white - I don't care.

Old rose bush

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