Puzzled

This photograph was taken on our second trip to Macklin, in July of last year.  Chris and I were staying in the same rental house, visiting several hotels in the area for the Beer Parlour Project.  Arturo was along with us on this trip.  We were on our way to the Marengo Hotel for episode BP32 of the Beer Parlour Project.  We would make a return visit to Marengo in 2026 to round out that episode.

Along the way we stopped to explore an old abandoned school.  In the principal's office, up on the second floor, we found this.  A bunch of old papers and debris, and dozens of pieces of an old jigsaw puzzle.  

This is a scan of a 4"x5" sheet of Kodak Tri-X Pan 320.  The film was rated at 400iso and developed on May 19th of this year, in PMK developer, on my Jobo Processor.  I ran a total of 20 sheets, in two batches of ten.  The development was for 16:40 minutes at 20C.  This is N+1 development, and provides an increase in contrast of one stop. 

I took this photograph on July 21st 2025, at about 2:30 in the afternoon.  It was taken with my Ebony SV45TU view camera and a Nikkor 150mm lens, with no filter.  The exposure was for 1 second at F25.0.