This image is literally the first slide I looked at in my attempt at organizing the thousands of slides I have taken. I have fifteen 30 gallon tubs of unlabeled slides!
Anyway, this image was taken when I was in my 1st year of university. At that time I still had my Pentax SuperProgram with a SMC Pentax-A 28-135mm f4 zoom lens. I know that the film was Kodachrome or Ektachrome 'cause the mount says Kodak on it. Probably Kodachrome. I don't remember ISO, f-stop or speeds. It was probably tungsten film too.
I do remember that I didn't have to take a long exposure 'cause you see that bright light at the top of the picture? Even though this picture was taken several hundred metres underground, it was bright as daylight in that cavern, 'cause there were hundreds of those lights.
So this segways to what the images actually is. Well, I'm not exactly sure anymore, but it was part of the Great Whale section of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project in northern Quebec. As a civil engineering student, every year our department had a road trip to a BIG construction site. That year it was a trip up to Chasassibi, deep in the Northern Cree Territory.
I do remember at the time, this project was very contraversial, as it would have flooded several hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of native land. I believe that the project was scuttled eventually.
The postcard was created via an internegative using Kodak Gold film and printed on Kodak Royale paper at the local film lab in New Haven - small mom and pop operation where I believe I am the only customer.
Regards, Art.
