Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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PHOTOGRAPHY IS MY HOBBY Getting prints of pictures I take is ray hobby. The first thing in developing is to get a roll of pictures taken and wind it onto a reel. The reel is then placed in a jar. This has to be done in a dark room. The three liquids used in developing are the developer, stop bath, and fixer. The developer is poured into the jar. Then after ten minutes, it is dumped out, and the film is rinsed | then the stop bath goes in for five seconds. Then the jar is rinsed again, and the fix goes in for twenty minutes. After rinsing, the filni is hung up to dry. While in the jar, the developer, stop bath, and fixer have to be stirred thoroughly, so the chemicals will get on all the film. This is done by turning an agitator in the top of the jar. The baths have to be at a temperature of sixty-eight degrees. After the film is dry, negatives stand out. Negatives have the blacks and whites reversed. In the printing process the negatives are cut, so they can be handled separately. The negative is placed in the printing box. This has a black layer at the front that is cut to fit the negative. The negative is put in that space. Then a piece of photographic paper is placed just behind the negative. The back of the printing box is put in and is then exposed to light for fifteen seconds. Then the photographic paper is put in developer for ten minutes. While in the developer, black lines will begin to appear on the photographic paper, because the picture is developing. After ten minutes, the picture is placed in the stop bath, which stops the developing process from going on too long. The print is kept in the stop bath for thirty seconds and then put into the fix. It stays there for twenty minutes. The fix is a chemical which maintains the stopping of the developing process. Then the print should be kept in water for an hour and set out to dry. Then you have a finished picture. David Wainwright, Form B Age 10. IF I WAS A SNOW FLAKE If I was a snow flake, I would go a-f lying with some other snow flakes. We would have lots of fun. When the sun came out, we would be very sad. When more snow came, we would not be as sad. When we saw the children playing in the snow, we woTild be so happy on our way down. Robert Saylor, Form E Age 7. THE SNOW The snow comes in winter. We like to make snowmen and forts and igloos. Christopher lybrrow, Form F Age 7.

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- 9 - IF IF WAS A SEED If I was a seed, I would be an acorn way up on the bop branch of the tallest tree in the world. Once there was a great big storm. The wind was blowing very hard and it wsls raining, lightening, and thimdering all at the same time. I was blown off the branch on which I was grown. Then I fell down, down, dovm. As I fell, I was blown farther and farther away from the tree. I could see that I had blown across two rivers and seven miles of forestland, and I was not anywhere near the ground. I kept falling and blowing for three weeks and three days. Once in a while I could see the ground through little breaks in the clouds . Once I even- saw some other seeds go sailing by me. Finally the wind stopped and I drifted down under thd clouds. VJhen it cleared up, I found I was over Paris. Then some wind came up and blew me back up into the clouds. I finally drifted to earth for good in China. It started to snow, and I rolled into a little hole and went to sleep. When I woke up, I was a full-grown tree. David Saylor, Fo3?m C Age 9. Cartoon caption; Sisters! Aren ' t those students creative! (Commemorating an actual, heart-warming incident during the snow-sculpture contest.)