Rocky Mountain high

Happy Friday the 13th.

Went to Penticton yesterday, and got those two rolls of film developed. I was less than pleased with the quality of the Walmart prints (not that i expect much from store print in the first place). Scanned one roll last night, and was even more disappointed: all the negs were very grainy. At first i thought is was me, u know shooting such and such under conditions X, no filter, maybe the film was past expiry
, etc., etc., but now I'm much less sure. Two negs out of the 24 had dirt specs stuck to them (like scratch it off with u'r fingernail because it won't wipe off with a cloth stuck) and one neg was badly spotted too. Don't know what the other roll will show, but i'm not too hopeful. I'd been thinking of using London Drugs for developing anyway, better film selection, a camera department (they seem to be catering to the pro/serious hobbiest set a bit more than anywhere else i know of in Penticton).

Today's photo is Lac des Arcs in the Rockies, with the Trans-Canada Highway pretty much invisible as it snakes around the hill on the left. Shot in Alberta on Easter Sunday as we started to head home from visiting relatives in the Red Deer area (more or less, they're sorta halfway between Red Deer and Edmonton, and a little to the side). That was quite a trip actually, heading out, we had an unbalanced U-Haul on the back of our new-to-us motorhome, driving over rutted and frost-heaved highways with what turned out to only be medium duty shocks. Managed to shake a plate right out of the 'til-then-closed cupboard and onto the floor.