This is a scan of another negative from my trip to Saskatchewan last fall. Margarit and I toured around for about a week last September. This was a 4" x 5" sheet of Fuji Neopan Acros 100 that I recently developed. The film was rated at 80 iso and developed in Rodinal developer, 1:50, for 11:00 minutes at 24C. I shot this on September 17th 2024 at about 4:20 in the afternoon, using my Ebony SV45TE view camera and a Fujinon 125mm lens. A #25 Red filter deepened the value of the sky and created some separation of the thunderhead. The exposure was for 1/4 second at F18.0.
Margarit and I had been touring the west block of Grasslands National Park. As we left the park in the afternoon we made our way north, through the Rural Municipality of Mankota, towards the rental that we were staying at in Cadillac. We spotted this old school, which later became a community hall, and thought it made a nice foreground for the big thunderhead that was building. As it turned out this became quite a massive storm. By the end of our drive back to Cadillac the rain was coming down in sheets and we could barely see the highway ahead of us. I can't recall the rainfall total but it was something like 6 or 7 inches that came down in less than 24 hours. There was some hail, and the storm spawned a tornado that touched down north of where we were staying. The next day there was evidence of the storm everywhere. Fields were flooded and there were numerous places where water had been running over the highways and roads. I think it was the most intense storm that I have every personally experienced.
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