Sunday, November 8, 2026

Winch House

This is a scan of one of my recently processed sheets of film.  This is a 4"x 5" sheet of Kodak T-Max 100.  It is from the batch that I developed on October 28th.  I rated the film at 80iso and gave normal development.  This was 510 Pyro Developer, 1:100, for 8:00 minutes at 24C.
This is the interior of one of the Winch Houses at the Nordegg Historic Site.  I shot this while on one of my many tours of the Mine Site.  The site is only open to guided tours and is not accessible to the general public.  The carvings in the wall are initials of the men that worked on the site back when the mine was open.  It closed over 70 years ago, back in 1955, so no doubt none of these workers are still alive.  I believe that the numbers that they recorded were their mine tag numbers.  Everyone had a number and a tag, and when you went down into the mine, your tag was retained in the lamphouse.  This way, if anyone didn't come up above ground after their shift, they knew who was missing.
I took this photograph on April 28th of 2026, at about 2:30 in the afternoon.  I used my Ebony SV45Ti view camera and a Fujinon 125mm lens.  The exposure was for 30 seconds at F20.0.


 

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