Pulling out the Hasselblad as a snapshot camera for the Canyon de Chelly adventure and taking film out of cold storage, ordering new film, et, et. Somehow when we got back and I was running film, plus some from school, plus Jacksons...I ended up with one roll of TX shot of a pregnant woman and her young son. I couldn't remember it. It was shot through a Hasselblad so it was mine or Jacksons. When I processed it this morning it finally came to mind.
I shot a portrait session for a very pregnant young lady almost ten years ago. Before I was using digital. She was just a few days away from delivery but I was impressed with her personality, the way she handled her five year old son. Seemed like a great person. The week and then the month went by and she never contacted me about proofs or prints. I figured she had her hands full.A few months later her parents tracked me down...she had died in childbirth! I gave them the color film and proofs, might have even had some prints made. No charge of course. This must have been a roll of Tri-X 320 from that session that somehow evaded processing until yesterday. The negatives are in good shape. Base+fog density a little higher than normal but nothing serious or lethal. Her son must be a teenager by now and her baby, (who survived), a grade-schooler.
I offered up the appropriate prayer but it is still quite a shock to have this memory come roaring back out of the fixer tray as I made roll film proof sheets this morning.
I shot a portrait session for a very pregnant young lady almost ten years ago. Before I was using digital. She was just a few days away from delivery but I was impressed with her personality, the way she handled her five year old son. Seemed like a great person. The week and then the month went by and she never contacted me about proofs or prints. I figured she had her hands full.A few months later her parents tracked me down...she had died in childbirth! I gave them the color film and proofs, might have even had some prints made. No charge of course. This must have been a roll of Tri-X 320 from that session that somehow evaded processing until yesterday. The negatives are in good shape. Base+fog density a little higher than normal but nothing serious or lethal. Her son must be a teenager by now and her baby, (who survived), a grade-schooler.
I offered up the appropriate prayer but it is still quite a shock to have this memory come roaring back out of the fixer tray as I made roll film proof sheets this morning.
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Wow, very touching... i can imagine the situation...
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