I’ve taken the week off of work to use up some vacation days so have some time to fire up the bathroom darkroom for the first time in quite a while. Luckily it all came back to me pretty quickly. It helps I had an already-calibrated exposure monitor ready to go, it just needed a new battery and I was on my way without having to make test strips.
With a box of fresh 5x7 resin-coated paper and fresh multigrade developer mixed up I was able to spend a few hours making prints and enjoying the darkroom printmaking process again. There are very few things as magical as seeing a print appear out of nowhere in your tray, bathed in the faint glow of a red safelight. I hope to get back to it again soon.
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