Gravel pit

Among a handful of old-camera nuts (most of whom are old camera nuts),
October each year is a time to celebrate the cameras made in various
Communist countries, especially the Soviet Union. This year I chose my
Smena 8M, mainly because I had not used it in over twenty years. Between, as
they say, the jigs and the reels, I shot only a single roll of film through
it, and on that roll there's only a single shot I really liked. That's this
one. I took it four weeks ago, in mid-October, at a gravel pit/quarry
just north of Town.

The Smena 8M was manufactured in the 1970s by the original LOMO factory in
Leningrad, as that city was known then. This film was Fuji 200 film which had
expired in 2001. My Smena has some lively light leaks. I intend to get back to
this gravel pit to take better pictures, probably not with the Smena.