Over the last two months I’ve spent my darkroom time developing film taken during the summer – 15 rolls of 120 and nearly four boxes of 4×5 film taken in and around Grasslands National Park on James R. Page’s Wild Prairie workshop.
This week I started making work prints of some of these images on Ilford RC paper; here is one example. This photograph is of the Qu’Appelle River, looking west (upstream) as it flows from Round Lake in southeastern Saskatchewan. It was taken from the old, abandoned Highway 9 bridge over the river that was built in the 1930’s. I had scouted out this viewpoint previously but the lighting wasn’t what I wanted until the morning that we left for Winnipeg – so I stopped the van on the shoulder, walked through the ditch to the old highway, and shot 2 rolls of Tri-X with my Mamiya C330S.
This image is printed on Ilford RC Warmtone Pearl, developed in Ilford Warmtone developer. I like the slightly creamier whites with the RC Warmtone paper; I will likely use Warmtone FB Glossy when I make a larger print.