BP 39.0 Pre-Scount - Rosedeer Hotel

A year ago Margarit and I were down in East Coulee for the Springfest Music Festival.  We met up with my friend Rob, and he dropped off a whole bunch of darkroom equipment at my shop, that I later sold for him.  At the end of the weekend, Margarit and I headed over to Wayne, to pre-scout the Rosedeer Hotel for the Beer Parlour Project.

We are well aware of the hotel, and have been there numerous times.  It is a tourist destination, and almost everyone that stops in over the summer months, is from somewhere else.  This is not really the type of clientele that we want to interact with for the Beer Parlour Project.  So, despite having it recommended to us over and over and over again by well meaning followers, we have avoided visiting.  This time around Margarit and I were just checking out the hotel.  We were considering making a return visit late in the season, when the tourists are gone, and that eventually happened last November.

I took this photograph a year ago to the day, when Margarit and I stopped by.  I was experimenting with some old Maco IR820C Aura film.  This is an infrared film that ceased to be manufactured over twenty years ago.  This particular sheet came from a batch that had an expiry date of April 2007.  I loaded the film holder in February of 2025, exposed the film in May of 2025, and developed it in March of this year.  The negative was a little thin, because I messed up the development time and only processed for 7:00 minutes, when it should have been for 8:30.  Nonetheless, the image can be salvaged.  

I rated the film at 12iso and exposed with a #25 Red Filter, and no filter factor.  This would have blocked much of the visible light spectrum, and exposed mostly with Infrared wavelengths.  I used my Ebony SV45TE view camera with a Fujinon 125mm lens.  The exposure was for 1/4 second at F20.0.

The guy in the left chair is Carlos, and that is his ATV parked out front. He was visiting with his friend in the other chair.  Carlos is a local resident and friend of the owners.  I photographed him again when we returned for our official visit in November of 2025.  That was our Beer Parlour Project outing number BP39.0.