High and dry at the marina

I recently went poking around in some boxes looking for old negatives and contact sheets from school. Most of my favorite shots were taken with my Hasselblad 500 c/m. Unfortunately, my film scanner can't handle anything larger than 35mm.

This particular shot was taken in Monticello, Indiana. I was driving thru the area and noticed that this channel had been drained to make some repairs to a valve somewhere in the area. All the boats had to be floated out to Lake Shafer or pulled out altogether. I walked down the bank into the muck with my Nikon FE2 and Nikkor 28mm f2.8 lens and made a few images. I didn't stick around long for fear of losing my shoes in the mud! At the time, I had been shooting with Kodak Tech Pan quite a bit because I liked the high resolution it offered. However, I was developing it in diluted HC-110 instead of the recommended Tech Pan soup, so I always had to deal with very contrasty negatives. I tried to tone it down a bit but I still have a lot to learn about post-processing in Photoshop.