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HiHoPyro! with all credit to @Eric Rose for the new handle. You made the leap, and took a great photograph too. Great view, brought home what may be the most sensible composition of such an important and interesting structure and its details. You will have to inform at some point in the future your impressions of the body of results with the new developer. Thanks for shaking it up a bit.

Gives me a bit of vertigo! Nice comp, though.

Thank You, Gents.
This pyro bartender is a rank newbie at it. 'Wanted to try semi, but could not find clear direction there. Some for tubes, some for other film, some for HP5, but shot at EI200. It certainly does the job if I can figure out my side. 'Seems a nice soup, and my betters have certainly used it to good effect.
There were shots taken through iron grating that are nice, but I wasn't able to keep all the grating out of the frame - pity. 'Hope the MF versions do better.

Semi stand is pretty forgiving. Try starting at 4 times the amount of time in the soup and do 15 sec's of agitation at the beginning and 15 sec's half way through. If I were trying to get the right times for a new film to me I would shoot a full roll of the same scene, cut it up into as many test you want to do and then develop away. Pyro is so cheap it's a no brainer. Welcome to the pyromaniacs club.

Don't know how much a role the stain played in keeping the highlights under control, but the definition in the brightest lit parts of the clouds is easily seen while still being convincingly bright. Plus, maybe the stain makes a better negative to scan. I see a lot of scanned negatives where the highlights are just too hot and run out of headroom. Just about anyone using pyro claims it makes a much better negative to print as well. Either way, it is hard to see the downside in the image results by using a stain. And, the grittiness of those stones, not aided by film grain, i almost can feel. It all has a nice "mouth" as one would say in the fermented beverage tasting lingo.

Eric thank You. What's not clear is the mix strength. Normal is 1:1:100 at roughly 13 min. For semi, would you mix 1:1:200? Andrew mentioned mixing 1:1:240 (?) with a tube, but I don't have a feel for how to adjust for a tank.

Michael, must confess I knocked down the highlights a little, but it was the metal that was the offenders. There is no added contrast (global or mid-range), no sharpening. Its the same kind of stone (basalt) as the church wall w/ rain gutter shot, using the same lens. This just had hard light.

Neat composition with an unusual perspective. I like that sort of topic, a rock pile with similar function near me also has those "dogs" or whatever anchoring rods to keep the structure from popping laterally.

I use 1:1:100 for regular and semi-stand.

Eric, Thank You! Sounds scarey - full strength at 4x the time. Some short rolls are in order for testing.