lorirfrommontana

My first darkroom was a corner of a detached garage; the second was the loft above the garage. My God, the heat in the summer! When we bought this house I literally dreamed of the darkroom I would build in the basement. It's a small house with a small basement and I got a corner of it -- it doesn't matter. My darkroom is less than 6 feet square and I don't care, it has air conditioning and running water and it's all mine!

It's worth the wait, you'll see.

Mike

It is so hard not to get everything moved in now!!! Well, ive moved some stuff in. My paper and film is in the fridge. I've tried out my gray lab timer and it works! I've put on the safelight (it works too!). I've sorted my trays and other supplies. I've planned and planned! I've reread a couple of chapters on printing in a couple of my photography books. We are at the point of just sealing off any light leaks now. Ed spent all day (while I slept as I work nights) sitting in the room finding light leaks and fixing them. I should be able to print tomorrow so I'm mixing up the dektol tonight!!! Yeah!!! I can tell it will be worth it! My own space to create! It is so exciteing! Lori

WoooHooo!. Yesterday was the most fun I've had in a long time. I printed around 15 8x10's. I only had a 25 pack of 8x10 paper. I'll have to get more. I do have a lot of 5x7 and 11x14 (i think) paper. There were lots of errors but they all helped me learn. I can look at one of my negatives and somewhat tell how long I should expose it. I found that just counting was far more easy than useing the timers. I have the enlarger plugged into the timer because it has a switch that is far easier than unplugging. I didn't want to quit and almost missed my leaders meeting last night! I was good though and went. I just covered my trays with plastic and will do some more printing today. I found a few light leaks that I'll have to fix first. I'm at the don't care what it looks like I'll use duct tape stage of that! Thank you to everyone who has helped me get here. I love printing. I do have to work on my camera work though to make printing a little easier! I have a darkroom. Oh Yeah!
-Lori

Well done Lori!