Flute

This shot is from the Fall Photo Weekend down in southern Alberta last October.  I was out with my friends Steve, Fred and Court from the Monochrome Guild.  We stayed in the Drumheller area and explored at Dorothy, East Coulee and Dinosaur Provincial Park.

I just recently processed this sheet of film as part of a batch of Kodak T-Max 100.  I rated the film at 80 iso and developed in 510 Pyro.

I took this shot on October 16th 2024, about about 2:45 in the afternoon.  I used my Ebony view camera and a 210mm lens.  The exposure was for 1 second at F58.

This is part of a memorial shrine that a local resident has erected in East Coulee.  It is on his land, and was once part of the Murray Coal Mine.  Some people have assumed this is a native site, or more specifically a burial ground, but that is completely false.  This spot was once a central intersection of rail lines and roads between two separate mines and the adjacent townsite.

I thought that the stump with the prayer flag looked a lot like someone playing a flute.  It was such a quirky composition with that Buddha figure beside it, and the coal tipple visible in the background.  I printed this one recently and am considering it for the Apparitions project.