Contacts and Sunshine

Four rolls of this PlusX 125, contacted. They’re a bit heavy, deliberately. It’s easier to pick out the detail when they’re darker. One more roll in this batch to be developed, when the new chems arrive.

These are the 4 rolls of Agfa Vista exposed at Easter and contacted especially for my meeting today. We agreed that it’s not particularly important to publish straight away. That immediate bang-bang live blogging imperative driven largely by digital and our willingness to consume large amounts of things of relatively low significance (me too, of course), is something I’m trying to avoid in this part of my practice. Incubation, gestation and timing of delivery. Crucial.

Colour negative film makes for lovely monotone prints, especially on fibre paper. The blacks are softer; it’s all low contrast stuff. Fitting for the subject matter. Someday my prints will come. Well, I’ll do them myself, but that pun is irresistible.

Three super-quick morning sun prints as a gift for my lunch companion. They really could have been exposed for double the time, but the light between 0800 and 0930 right here, was lovely, and just enough. Doing this is like scooping up the light in one’s hands and holding it, lightly, with the leaf, or feather, or whatever it is. Sharing the exquisite coastal light that falls against my skin each morning feels quite special.

There’s quite a bit more cameraless photography to show, but of course it needs scanning, or photographing, and it’s boxed, awaiting the right time. The portfolio website is being rebuilt, so they’ll appear there, but perhaps you’d like to see the before pictures, like these above? Or maybe see them as pairs? Just thinking aloud…

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