Sometimes you take a pic and are at loss to explain it. That was the case here … Recently, I asked Chat GPT the following in relation to the pic, “What story do you think it tells?” Here is my AI friend’s verbatim reply:

Like most things, photography is often a compromise — a choice — between different things. If you want A then you give up B, that sort of thing. I quite like shooting big negatives, with 120 film and 4x5s being my favourites, but shooting the large frames means you have to give some things up.

One of the most intriguing aspects to analog photography is the ability to engage with an incredibly wide array of materials, techniques. and processes. The number of pathways to a print is innumerable, and limited only by time (and to some extent, money…)

I prefer shooting waterfalls with larger formats, but sometimes you use what you got. I did a summer canoe trip last summer to Wells Grey Provincial Park, and as space in the boat was tight, all I brought was my Pentax 17 half-frame camera and a few rolls of Kentmere 400.

This is Rainbow Falls, at the back end of Azure Lake. It’s a beautiful set, and as the morning sun cut through the mist, I wished badly I was framing it up with my Pentax 67, or even a 4x5… Despite that, the Pentax 17 did fine. Kind of…