Montée Deschambault

In the French seigneurial system for agriculture, lots are long and narrow, start at the river, and separated by roads parallel to the river called "rangs".

To move up or down from a "rang" to another, you follow a road perpendicular to the river called a "montée".

In Kiamika, where I'm from, the Montée Deschambault links rang #6 to rang #7 and crosses the Kiamika river, a tiny rivulet that washes multiple fields of this narrow agricultural valley, lost in the sub-Boreal forest.

At this point in time, the sun was going lower and lower, but I wanted to work on my Scheimpflung skills, and managed to get everything sharp from foreground up until the other side of the river. The light blur of the background actually is barely noticeable, and contributes to keeping the center of interest on the foreground.

This negative is one of my favorite for its alternation of dark and light tones, and the shine in the folded grass beneath the snow.