2012
The image below was taken a few minutes after yesterday’s shot with the sun bisected on the horizon. The film stock was Fuji Provia 100 ISO. I’m not sure if the film now 23 years old, is suffering from aging or original reciprocity failure.
Of course, I was in Brunei to look for (more) oil. This is a shot I took of a jackup drilling rig and supply boat at sunset one evening. I’m standing on the beach and my best guess is I used a 500mm for this shot.
In yesterday’s photo I showed the scene behind our water taxi as we sped up river from Bandar Seri Begawan to Limbang. Below is the view in front of the boat. It looks quite serene in contrast to the channel being carved out of the river by the twin outboards hurtling us forward.
I was taken with the speed delivered by these twin, 2.6 liter, V6, 175 horse-power Yamaha outboards. That was, until our Mr. Fixit started telling stories about these boats hitting trees floating down-river.
I’d only been in Brunei a few days when the Rasau 17 well blew out. The escaping gas caught fire on April 25, 1989 which puts a date on this image.
In the background is the Parish Church of Saint Wilfrid while in the foreground, the River Wharfe flows beneath a five arched bridge that carries the Dalesway