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This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in Brunei.
You can’t actually see the car driving through this flood in Kuala Belait, one night in 1989, but you know it’s there by the trails of the tail lights and the plumes of water on each side.
Most of my LVL work was to determine and map the boundary of the organic material to the first two distinct layers of sand. Consequently, most of my shots would only be sunk a couple of meters into the organic layer. The main crew, however, needed their shots placed down in to the sand – about six meters down.
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.
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.
