Akershus Festning Calotype III

Well, actually it's the first calotype I made in Norway. Also the last one developed. They are numbered in the order they were developed :) This is the fortress/castle in Oslo.

I really enjoyed sitting here for an hour and a half taking in the view. After traveling, it was nice just to sit quietly in one place for a time.

The sun was coming and going and during the exposure and they kept changing the white blinds in the top windows! After 15 minutes, they opened them, then at 40 minutes they closed the blinds on two of them and partly closed the other 3, then at 1:15 they adjusted them all again!

Would have been nice to stop down a lot more, but it was already a long exposure!

Trutat variant of a Pélegry calotype on Canson Opalux paper.
5x7 Eastman No. 1, modified Wollensak Velostigmat
10AM mostly cloudy.
LV ~11, f/11, 90 minutes
The sun came out a few times and I used my watch to time it. It was sunny on and off for 16 minutes during the 1:30 exposure.

Development:
3 September
Faint image readily visible at start.
200ml of 0.7% gallic acid, added 2 drops of 12% citric acid and 4 drops of 24% silver nitrate. Under the safelight, I was not sure that I added only 4 drops of AgNO3... possibly added too much. Image came up too fast, and I added more CA at 8 minutes, but had to stop developing at 14 minutes.