This is a portrait of Doris. She visited with us at the Blue Saloon in Carseland, Alberta, on July 25th. This is the outing that was recorded by CBC News out of Calgary, and the one that we refer to as BP33.0. Chris interviewed her and I look forward to hearing what she had to say. Generally while Chris is interviewing a patron or staff at a hotel, I'm busy taking portraits with the big camera. Chris records the interviews with a laptop, and then transcribes that interview, using a software program, which converts it to a text file. From there he selects a few interesting quotes and tidbits to add to the write up that he puts together for each hotel. Chris does the bulk of the work on this part of the project, as he also does the research into the history of each hotel. I try to help out a little bit, and convert his notes to a rough draft of an essay, that he then further refines and adds the quotes. It all seems to work out just fine.
This scan is from a 4" x 5" negative, Kodak Tri-X Pan 320. This is one of the eight sheets that I recently experimented with. The film was pushed to 1600 iso and given 2-1/2 hours of development in highly diluted HC-110 developer. It seemed to work pretty well, so I'll continue to experiment with this combination. The only downside is that it takes a LONG time to process any quantity of film.
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