This image is from the recent trip to the Turner Valley Gas Plant Historic Site back in June. The manufacturer of this valve, Crane Steel, used the Swastika as their logo. This dates back to before the war, when this symbol was not attached to the Nazi party in Germany. I expect to post additional images from our visit to this fascinating site, in the coming weeks as I process the rest of the film. We booked a private tour of the site and paid for personal escorts and guides to provide us access to photograph the site. It is hoped that some of the images may work for our Apparitions project.
I shot this particular image on June 17th 2023 near the end of our visit, at around 2:30 in the afternoon. This was taken on Ilford FP4+ sheet film, with my Ebony 4x5 view camera. I used a Schneider 135mm lens with no filter, and the exposure was F18.0 and 4 seconds. I rated the film at 160 iso, which gave slight underexposure. This was combined with extended development of 14:20 minutes in Kodak HC-110 Developer, dilution B. The result was this significant increase in contrast, well suited to both the lighting conditions, and the subject matter, in my opinion.
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