TITLE: Ice Road Skaters

When winter comes all my hometown lakes freeze over, and the town plows skating paths on them. These frozen pathways are almost black providing a great contrast to snowy banks.

I shot this picture with a plastic Holga toy camera. I then stand-developed it for an hour to gain shadow-like white reflections over the skaters using an effect called bromide drag. It further emphasizes the skaters and gives them always angel-like qualities.

AUTHOR: Ari Jaaksi (Finland)

I'm an analogue photographer. I shoot mostly black and white medium format film. I love the entire process from the film selection through composition all the way to lightroom manipulation and printing. I actually believe analogue printing is an integral part of black and white film photography, and it is only then when the images finally come to life.