Another One

Here's another negative from that recent batch of Ilford Delta 100.  This one was taken a little over a year ago, in January of 2018.  I thought it was kind of fitting as we find ourselves locked into a rather severe, extended cold snap.  Speculation suggests that this will set back the mountain pine beetle invasion that has been devastating the forests in the mountains and foothills.  Essentially the temperature has mostly remained in the -20C range as a daytime high, often plunging down to -30C and colder at night.  With the wind chill effect taken into account, these temperatures often felt like -40C and colder.  There have been a handful of slightly milder days in between but for the vast majority of the time, since the latter part of January, this has been the norm.  It bounced up to about -8C this afternoon, and is forecast to be slightly warmer yet tomorrow, but after that we plunge back down into colder conditions, with night time lows back to around -30C by the weekend.  It wasn't quite that cold on the day that I took this photograph but I remember my hands getting painfully cold handling the big view camera.  I think this image kind of captures the mood of that sort of extreme weather.