Eat, Sleep, Shit Silver Prints

Thats basically what I have been doing today. I woke up today thinking about silver prints, When I ate dinner I was thinking about then, and subsequently... You get the point. So I stepped back into the darkroom today to do some good old fun printing. Had a blast too.

I made to prints with vingettes around them, one for my Jessica and the other for my mother. Then I did some prints for myself. Redid Gallery Books for myself, and Chair, Vines, which I sent the original to Jessica, then I did Statue, Rose, and Dry River Bed. For the vingettings I did Rose. And they look absolutely awesome, very delicate and romantic. Which leads me in away with something I want to talk about.

The way I do my prints. I dont know if I do it different from a lot of you silver print makers out there or not but I do it my way and I do it the best that I can. Once I make my exposure and go to develop it, instead of developing it emulsion side up, I do it down. That way developer get on the emulsion evenly. Or at least thats my reasoning. I also agitate them slightly differently, I move them back and forth in the developer and then side to side, do the same with stop bath and fixer.... then wash them and hang them to dry. I just think Ive never heard of someone developing the print upside down because they want to see the print appear before their eyes. I care less about it apprearing before my eyes, I want it to be developed the best it can be etc. Anyway, thats all I got for the moment. If anyone knows of a place I can get Kodak Panalure Select papers either in 5x7 of 8x10 size let me know.