This past Wednesday was a snowy day, and it didn’t really stop for long. Today was also a snowy one.

The virtual whiteout on this blog should be sufficient evidence that getting out to make photos in these conditions is delightful!

So that afternoon, once I finished my shift, I decided to go another route and *perhaps* pick up a little more film.

I know, right?

Far from idle consumerism, since Kathleen and I are visiting Almonte this Saturday and since the clouds and snow have not shown any signs of giving way to the sun anytime soon, the lack of quicker films in my stash would be challenging to my photographic fortunes.

So you can see why I walked into a local film retailer’s shop and walked out with a little more HP5+. Readily available and amiable for a little push, it’s always an easy choice to make.

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Another one of the reasons I chose a longer, more circuitous way to get home was that I needed to pick up a shipment¹ of fresh E6 chemistry from the post office.

I won’t be mixing it up anytime soon (slide film and heavy winter overcast aren’t an attractive combination), but it has been increasingly challenging to find. Or at least to find a seller that has it in stock and will ship it to me.

Just like the ECN-2 (soup for Vision3 50D and 250D), FX-37 (soup for T-Max 100, Acros II, and Ultrafine Xtreme 100), and Mic-X (soup for Fomapan 100 and Fomapan 200), it will sit patiently on my chemistry shelf until we are blessed with the daystar’s company for more than what seems like an hour every other Tuesday afternoon.

Until then, it seems like it’s going to be a lot of Tri-X and HP5+ in HC-110 for this girl!

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1. “Shipment” makes it sound much larger than it was. A single one-quart (i.e. 8 roll) Unicolor Rapid E6 kit boxed up and mailed to me from a seller in Montreal. ↩︎