Cutting a Christmas tree in 1986

Right now, it's five months from Christmas (or seven since it), but

this old negative just poked its face at me. I scanned it a few weeks

ago but I'm just now getting to it.



It was a fairly dark day so, even though I had pretty fast film in the

camera, when my friend took a picture of me with it, the shutter speed

was slow. I'd guess this was about a tenth of a second, or longer.

And the camera was skewed. Maybe it was an accidental shot! But I

like it now, 30 years (and seven months) later.



The snow was falling off the trees onto us. Our strategy was to get

under a tree and bang its trunk with the back of the axe to knock as

much snow out of the tree as possible. Then we'd start cutting. This

one appears to have been chopped at a bit.



Taken, I think, in my Minolta X370. Tri-X film.