Wicked and Fallen on Flickr.

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Scan of yer actual darkroom enlarged print.

Mamiya 7ii, Mamiya 43mm f/4.5L, Shanghai GP3 in XTOL 1:2

I have fallen into a wicked way. Part of my new things to do regime this year is to round off my photographic education and learn the other other half of film photography — printing.

I just so happened to have moved round the corner in Brighton to a community run darkroom, so I have several books, a stack of cheap Ilford paper and two days per month to waste it.

So far so good.

It might sound crazy to invest in what might be seen to be a redundant skill, but I would urge any of you to try firstly a non-digital end to end process, and secondly a non-digital activity of any kind. The physical creation of photographs still makes my head dizzy - it’s like it shouldn’t be allowed. The digital world has made us all children in the face of the physical, and this feels like breaking all sorts of laws and social mores — and I say that not as a luddite but someone whose livelihood is well over there on the sofa of technological punditry.

Anyway I hope this will solidify my intent when I am out with the camera, and I will come to further appreciate tone and contrast. Also it will give me something to hang on my walls.

So a scan of the end of the process, instead of a scan of maybe halfway through.