This is an exterior view of the Rockview Hotel in Cochrane Alberta, taken the morning after our BP40.0 outing in late February of 2026. The Beer Parlour was well attended the night before and we got a lot of good photographs and interviews. The weather was terrible that evening, so I stopped by the next morning, on my way out of town, and took this shot. By this point it had stopped snowing and the sun was coming out. From here was I was on my way to Carstairs for our next outing. This is a scan of a 4"x5" sheet of Ilford HP5. For exterior shots in daylight I expose at 320 iso and develop for 7:45 minutes in 510 Pyro 1:100. By comparison, when I rate the film at 1250 iso for interior shots in low light, the film requires a much longer develop time... 40:00 minutes. It is very tedious to stand there in the dark agitating film in stainless steel hangers, for 40 minutes. I usually do 14 sheets (2 racks of 7) of the normally exposed stuff for 7:45 minutes, followed by 1 rack of 7 of the 1250 iso stuff. This makes good use of the chemistry, and means I don't have to stand there in the dark for so long. On the down side, I usually end up with a backlog of Beer Parlour images to process, and have to wait until I accumulate enough normally exposed stuff to round out the batch.
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