The
"Dog Trot House" at the north end of the Pleasant Hill Civil War battlefield in
Sabine Parish, Louisiana. This is the only structure left from the
original village of Pleasant Hill, where a very bloody battle was fought
in the American Civil War in April, 1864. A dog trot house is two
cottages connected by a breezeway, allowing ample air flow in hot
climates. I imagine the dog would often trot through the breezeway to
get to the other side! The photo was taken in December of 2014 with a Pentax 6x7
MLU medium format SLR equipped with a 105 mm f/2.4 SMC Pentax 67 lens
on Ilford FP4+ film. The negative was enlarged optically with a
Beseler 23CIIXL enlarger and a 90 mm f/4.5 Rodenstock Rogonar-S lens on Ilford
Multigrade FB Classic Double Weight Fiber Base silver gelatin photo
paper. Processing was done archivally using Kodak chemistry, with a
final toning with Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner, treated with hypo clearing
agent, and washed in an archival washer.