On the edge of the bog, the forest formed a dense canopy over the lilies. To make the photograph, the camera had to be suspended upside down with the center column of the tripod inverted so the camera was just inches off the ground. To look through the ground glass I had to lie down in the boggy mud. The controls do not lock, nor do they unlock properly, and nothing works smoothly. Amazingly, there was very little wind.
Wind is the large format photographer's greatest adversity.
Anytime you put a dark cloth over your head, the wind gods send gusts of wind to create a nuisance. And if the exposure is longer than a half second, the wind gods blow until you've put your camera away in disgust. Now, if you want to foil these beasts, pretend you are going to put the camera away, sigh with a significant display of frustration, and refold your dark cloth. The wind gods will believe they have spoiled the photograph and leave. The negative was exposed on a Kodak 4x5 Tri X Professional film pack.