Tin Toy

This is a scan of another recently processed 4" x 5" negative.  This time, this is a sheet of Ilford FP4+125.  I recently ran a batch of this film on my Jobo Processor in Perceptol Developer, 1:1, for 11:45 minutes, at 24C.

The film was rated at 100 iso.  I shot this old tin toy inside one of the buildings at the Nordegg Historic Site.  Strangely, this building is rumoured to be a former brothel.  I'd been in this building numerous times in the past and never saw the toy.  I suspect some photographer found it somewhere on the site and placed it there...?  But who knows, perhaps it was there all along.

I was on one of my many tours of the mine site when I shot this.  I have permission from the County staff to photograph the site.  I am documenting all the small little details, and keeping a current record of the site, now that it has been abandoned for 70 years.  Some of my prints hang in the Discovery Center in Nordegg.

I took this shot on June 25th at about 4:00 in the afternoon.  Despite the fact that it was nearly the longest day of the year, and the sun was high in the sky, it was very dark in this corner of the building.  I shot with my Ebony view camera and a Fujinon 180mm lens.  The exposure was for 16 seconds at F22.0.  There was no motion to contend with so the long exposure worked just fine.