My day for the Shur-Flash in North Carolina was sunny and bright, so I loaded up with J&C Pro 100 I've been keeping in reserve for this camera and off I went. Click the thumbnails for larger images, of course.
I started at the local supermarket...
Here in High Point, there's a good-sized lake behind a small dam, variously called either Oak Hollow Lake or High Point City Lake. It's the source of our drinking water -- and yet, though swimming and fishing are prohibited at the location where I took these first shots, boating is permitted if the boats are launched at another park some way up the lake.
Still, it's water, and water is almost always a good subject...
You might notice some curved lines in the water -- I'm not sure exactly what those are, but they disturb the wind riffle on the water surface as I might expect if there were either an upwelling or if air were bubbling to the surface, so I presume they're related to the processing of water from the lake for the city water supply.
There's more in the park than just the water, though it's not really much of a park by standards I'm used to -- Seattle has some spectacular parks for so young a city, and High Point doesn't, for so old a town. Still, there is room for some kind of recreation...
The tree in that last image looks as if it survived a lightning strike long ago -- certainly a possibility. I'd never experienced a real thunderstorm -- the kind where you can't time from lightning to thunder to tell how far away the strike was, because there's another strike first and the crashes are almost on top of the flashes anyway -- until moving here. We get 'em all summer, but I didn't get any pictures of them...
Another nearby park is a conservancy located on another lake entirely. There's a nicely paved jogging trail through the woods, and this particular day seemed a good one for turtles to sun themselves on logs -- every time I walked past a particular bend, I'd hear a "plop" and look over to see spreading rings alongside a floating log, and a second turtle craning its neck to see if I was a threat; another step or two and the second one would also turn tail and slip into the water. Nope, no pictures of turtles -- couldn't get close enough!
However, there's a nice bridge over the lake...
Back along the path, it gets dim, but Pro 100 has plenty of latitude, and it was very, very sunny, so I tried a few more frames back in the shadows.
The negatives were a little thin, but there was plenty of information on them none the less.
I shot one more roll of Pro 100 on this day, but it's not processed yet; I also shot one roll of Superia; I should have both scanned by next Monday, along with the Virginia rolls...
