I took a trip down to East Coulee on the weekend of December 14 and 15. Frank and his employees at Dinosaur Valley Studios are just finishing up a project. This involved building a painted steel armature to support the skeleton of a Killer Whale. This is a modern Orca, and not a prehistoric mammal of any kind. The whale washed up on a beach on Vancouver Island some years ago. The specimen has scientific value, so we were not permitted to permanently attach the bones to the armature, or to drill any holes, or glue anything in place, or damage the specimen in any way. This support structure has custom made cradles, hooks and brackets to support every bone without damage. I was down on the weekend to take a bunch of still photographs of the specimen, in various stages of assembly, for the client. We set up a temporary backdrop, and some studio lights to do the photography. Most of this was just shot with a digital camera but I did take a couple of 4" x 5" large format film shots with my view camera. Here is a link to a news report about the project.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1854710&cache=yes
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