Flooding on the Mississippi River – a true Minnesota spring, occasionally punctuated with cold wet rain and occasionally a surprise spot of ice and snow. I’ve been reading about and listening to a lot of black and death metal lately, which if I had a purposeful photographic aesthetic, I would say these atmospheric river and dead tree images were inspired by the grainy black-and-white of the 90’s metal underground – the newspaper print of low-quality photos taken at night in graveyards or in the woods.
However, truthfully I don’t really have an aesthetic and these pictures came out by accident. At first I was kind of unhappy with them, blown out and overexposed, but I’ve come to kind of like them for being off. I was experimenting with a new, wider lens for my Minolta and on top of that had decided to try more daytime shooting with low-grain film. Then I accidentally over-developed them. Oops. Call it part of the process.
Camera: Minolta X-7A
Lens: Minolta MD 28mm 1:3.2
Film: Ilford Delta 100 Professional
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