Twenty years later, I was able to capture this natural phenomenon! In the spring of 2005, I saw ice hanging – when the water rose, it became covered with a crust of ice, and then water left, but the ice remained.
Then, of course, it was more beautiful and the ice was transparent...
But then I have a torn perforation on the film.
I thought I was shooting, reloading the footage over and over again...and the film had already ended a long time ago and was just stalling in place.
Later, I suspected that the film was endless and was very disappointed when I found out that I hadn't taken a single shot with ice hanging in the air and voids under it.
This pictures were taken on the Shinga River at its confluence with the Toshnya.
It turns out that there was a "good" water level here!
I wonder if I would have gone broke on reels if I had been shooting on film back then, as I am now shooting on digital.
At that time, there were 36 frames per month, or even less.
Now there are an average of 1,500 images per month, which is forty times more! Even if I take a selection and shoot well right away, it only comes out 10 times more. Considering the cost of film, development and printing in 2005, relative to the average salary, I would not have been able to pull it off...