[LargeFormat] Temperature

[Hornford, Dave]

Dear Les & Uncle Dick,

-33 degrees C (-40 degrees C & F wind-chill) here in Calgary, lovely
sunrise mountains all pink, even a touch of pink on the steam rising
from everyone's chimney. Nice & clear with fresh snow. Be almost perfect
for the mid-afternoon shot of the Opal range I've been thinking about
(bright blue sky, sawtooth formation highlighted by shadows & snow).
Tried to send the children out to get the morning paper, their excuse
was the screen door was frozen shut...it was... tried to remember why we
have a screen door, something about cooling the house but it seems
foolish now.=20

Think another day will be more perfect for the Opal range, today will be
perfect for looking at the tropical fish and speaking to my wife about
transferring to a Compaq sub in a warmer clime.... maybe next weekend
for the Opal, forecast for -3. With 40-70cm of fresh powder the snowshoe
tobogganing will be perfect. Time it right and I can be where I want to
be at a decent time with the family happy in the car drinking hot
chocolate after a great day of snowshoeing up and tobogganing down...
maybe she's right and I do like the snow.

Dave




-----Original Message-----
From: rstein [mailto:rstein@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:53 PM
To: largeformat@f32.net
Subject: [LargeFormat] Temperature


Dear Les,

     40 degrees F in Michigich in January. We are definitely going to
hell
in a handbasket.

    36 degrees C here in Perth in January. Good for the darkroom as this
translates to 32 degrees C in the actualy space and I can shut off the
heater in the Nova and just dip the colour paper. Also can break out the
20
x 24 Ilford tanks and slop RA 4 chemicals around bigger sheets of paper
without a water bath.

    Comes time to develop B/W film it is a choice between a developing
time
of 8 seconds or using the cold water jug out of the fridge. I get
growled at
for this as it also forms the basis for Koolaid etc. I have offered to
let
the rest of the family have the used developer as a basis for the cool
drinks but they have jibbed at this.

    One day, just as an experiment - and it might be worth an article in
the
local idiot rag - I shall try mixing the Ilfosol with cold beer. I have
done
worse things with handy liquids before and who knows what the
phototrendies
will make of it.

    Uncle Dick



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