Locked down and up close.

I'll admit it, I had thought that a brief, solitary trip out of the house to Collingwood this week wouldn't have been a problem - I've been interested in photographing the old grain elevators- and whilst wrestling with my clear understanding that this little side trip was wrong, I went anyways -  might have been the guy also tells me to go ahead and have another beer, it's OK.  The grain elevators were right where they should have been and so was the light, and just as I was thinking these are going to be great, my Nikon F4's batteries (all six of em) went completely dead.  Bummer, while resigning myself to the 45 min drive home, I noticed a nearby drug store and thought I'd try again, but while loading the batteries I moved the exposure compensation dial to two stops over without seeing it, and to top this off the police had parked an auspicious cruiser exactly where I had been standing. So..  choosing  discretion as  the better option I headed home and thought I'd  shoot barns on the way back.  Long story short, after processing the expensive roll of acros in xtol and wondering how could I have gone so wrong?   I stayed home the next night and took  these....