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So after a week of my photographic expectations (hopes?) not being met (fulfilled?), I decided on Sunday morning ahead of our little errands that I would get myself back to basics and choose a combination that I am familiar enough with: T-Max 400 that I would push two stops in HC-110. No new developer. No…
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Since Kathleen had other (very exciting) plans this Saturday, the adventure was mine alone. Trying to be at least somewhat fiscally responsible in light of a trip to Toronto I will be taking next month, I decided that I would pay visit to 613flea in the Aberdeen Pavilion to search for some novelty earrings! In…
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After Wednesday’s disappointing-to-me roll, rather than fall back on something familiar on Thursday, I decided to try something new. Thanks to a review written by Alex Luyckx earlier in the summer, I became interested in trying out FX-37, a developer that promises to “provide the highest acutance for T-grained film stocks like Kodak, T-Max, Ilford…
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Regarding my anxieties surrounding photo-making: my fears. All true. While I worked through a roll of Fomapan during *another* cold snap, I went four days without developing anything. When I set out to do so on Wednesday after finishing the roll, everything felt off. The choice of developer, the stubbornly cold water temperature, that the…
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There’s something to the afternoon light in March that fills my mind with promise. Promise of Spring, even if we’re bound to have a few of winter’s last gasps along the way. The photos today – made on this day in 2023 – are from such a bright March day. The sun was bright, the…
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