Margarit and I headed to Saskatchewan on August 13. We picked up of friends Arturo and Sharon to make it a foursome. After a fuel stop in Lloydminster, we crossed the border into Saskatchewan.
I made our first stop to photograph some old vehicles beside the highway, and Arturo realized he had forgotten his long pants. So we blasted back to Lloydminster so he could buy some.
Once we got re-started, we got serious about scouting around. We stopped in numerous small towns along the way to take photographs. In one we found a pair of unused grain elevators, and spent a couple hours there.
Later we stopped at an old abandoned church. There was a small museum nearby, but it was not open. We were more interested in the church than the museum anyway. I remember looking up some information about this church in the past and apparently the steeple was taken off by a tornado. It is in a state of serious disrepair and will not last much longer.
We had hoped to photograph at the now unused Borden Bridge. This is a large concrete arch bridge that spans the North Saskatchewan River near Borden. It has been replaced to two steel spans that now carry the divided highway over the river. By the time we arrived it was late in the day and the light had gone completely flat and there was no point stopping. So, we carried on to Saskatoon and checked into our hotel. We went out for a late dinner together and called it a day.
Here are two shots of the Borden Bridge that I took in January of 2017. At that time I had a gallery exhibition showing at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery and made several trips to drop off and pick up the prints, and to attend the opening. These two images were taken on Kodak Tri-X Pan film developed in PMK, a staining Pyro Developer. If you look closely you can see the two new highway bridges in behind the stately old concrete arch bridge [ behind in the first shot, and to the right in the second].
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