back to the beginning

Today I had my first day of a black and white film developing class. As much experience and practice I've had with photography, almost all of it has been digital, and so for a while I've wanted to learn how to work in a darkroom with film. The class is through an art studio on campus, not part of any curriculum. Anyway, it was a lot of fun, using the enlargers and learning about developer, stop, fix, etc. I'd recommend a class like this for anyone who is into photography, it gives you different perspective to editing pictures, rather than with Adobe Lightroom. (I just noticed the play on words there...)

Anyway, I've been ridiculously busy recently. I probably don't have time to write this post, but what the hell. I've learned that I need to keep doing things that I like doing, rather than the things that I "need" to do. It helps with the stress levels and general happiness. So even though I have plenty of work to do, I've been trying to take time to practice cello, process my pictures, and other small things.

Here's one of the few black and white pictures I have (originally color with my DSLR)