01 / 03 · Absarokas, the Milky Way Night · Silver gelatin print Night on 6x17 film is slow work: a forty-minute exposure, then another to check it, then the drive home at three. The half moon rose behind me twenty minutes in and lit the ridge, which is why the mountains read as more than a silhouette.
Tri-X pushed to 1600 gives the sky its grain. I print it at grade 2 so the stars stay as points and the ridge keeps its shape.
