Shooting the Crowsnest Pass - Day 3

When we got up on the morning of Thursday March 10th conditions were less than ideal.  It was REALLY windy, even by southern Alberta standards, and the mountains to the west of Pincher Creek were under heavy cloud.  We almost gave up on the idea of shooting, but decided to head into the Crowsnest and see if we could find a sheltered spot to shoot a little.  After another crappy, free hotel breakfast we checked out and hit the road.  The winds were in the 80 to 100kmh range out on the prairie but surprisingly once we got into the front ranges they dropped off a lot.  We headed back over to the Greenhill mine site and spent the morning shooting here.  It was overcast and showered a little off and on, but all things considered, it was a lot better than we expected.

By about noon we finished up at the mine site and decided that we'd better hit the road for home.  We stopped for a late lunch in Nanton, and decided to see if we could check out the Lancaster Museum.  This is an aircraft museum that includes a restored Lancaster bomber, as well as a number of other aircraft.  The museum was closed, but there were some guys working inside.  I had done a little work for the museum a few years back.  At my shop we custom fabricated some new acrylic for one of their gun turrets.  I used this contact as an in and got permission to go into the museum with our cameras.  It was great because we had free run of the place, without any other tourists around to get in the way.  The guys even turned on all their big overhead LED lights for us.  I didn't take any digital snapshots here, instead only working with my 4x5 view camera.  So the only snapshots I have of this day are the ones I took at the Greenhill mine.  But, as I get around to processing all of my film from this three day trip there will be a number of scans posted in the days and weeks to come.  After we finished up at the museum we hit the road for home, pounding the pavement all the way back to Edmonton.  We arrived back in the city in the early evening, tired but pleased with the results of our three days of shooting.