Oregon Scenic ~ Platinum/Palladium Print

Another Oregon scenic I was able to capture during a late afternoon photographic outing with the 5x7 was at a watering hole that was very popular with Oregonians was Cougar Reservoir, which also hosted the Cougar Hot Springs, and that was nothing short of deeply awesome. Those were geothermal hot springs, so no odors, just lots of hot water moving from one pool to the next in an ever increasingly cooler movement from one pool to the next. If you were hearty, you sat in the first pool, just below the small cave from whence the water flowed.

There is a condition in the Willamette Valley of Oregon referred by photographers as "zone 7 skies", another way of saying there is no visible point of where the sun might be, with the entire sky being an overall light gray, like a dome over the earth, sort of illuminated but no discernible location of the sun. That can lasts for weeks. For photographers who demand fluffy clouds in the sky to make the scene, it would be painful. I didn't let that stop my shooting. Irritating as that was at the time. Same negative treatment and same printing formula, with exception to print times.

The Negative: Kodak Super XX (250)
Negative Developer; Pyro/hydroxide 15 minutes (Windish Pyro) reformulated
Paper; Revere Platinum
Print Developer; Ammonium Citrate (Bostick & Sullivan) pre-mix
Coating solution; (5x7) Palladium 12 drops (B&S pre-mix) ~ Ferric Oxalate (Part 1) 11 drops, platinum (sodium chloroplatinate) @ 2.5% (solution) 2 drops.

Platinum/Palladium Print
"Cougar Reservoir" ~ 5x7 ~ 2/5
Willamette National Forest, Oregon