The Anticipation

I carefully handle my new, fifty year old camera.

We are in lockdown. Confined to the city with no access to the coast or the countryside.

Together with a tripod and light meter I venture out for the first time, to my local park.

It is a location I know well, but today it is an entirely new experience.

I begin exploring compositions, looking down through the beautiful viewfinder.

Removing the dark slide, I lock the mirror up, fire the shutter and wind on the film.

The sound that everyone talks about.

I repeat the process twelve times before removing the film and delivering it to a local lab to be developed and scanned.

The Anticipation.

A white card with textured paper lies on a dark wooden surface, with the words 'The Anticipation' printed in black.
Snow-covered park with leafless trees and snow on the ground.
Snow-covered park with leafless trees, some leaning, under gray sky.
Snow-covered trees in a winter landscape, with no leaves on the branches and a blanket of snow on the ground.
A lone pine tree with snow on its branches standing in a snow-covered field, with a fence and trees in the background, under a cloudy sky.
A black and white photo of a leafless tree with two birds perched on its branches, with a snowy field and cityscape with cranes in the background.
Black and white photo of snow-covered trees lining a pathway.
Snow-covered trees in a park on a winter day
Snow-covered trees in a park on a winter day.
Black and white photo of a snow-covered park with trees, focusing on a large tree in the foreground.
Snow-covered park stairs leading up to leafless trees and a building in the background on a gray winter day.
Black and white photo of leafless trees in a snowy park with buildings and a tall chimney or monument in the background.

All images were shot on a single morning wih a Hasselblad 500C/M using Ilford HP5 PLus film.

They have been developed and scanned by a local lab and the resulting photographs are unedited.

A black and white photo of a snow-covered park with a tall obelisk monument at the center, flanked by leafless trees and lampposts.

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