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On Saturday I woke up at 8am, and got to the darkroom by 9.

7 hours, three cans of coke, a salmon onigiri and 50 sheets of 11×14 photo paper later, I left for home.

The first photo on the left is the club building at my school. The photo club has two rooms on the third floor. One is for gathering and hanging out, and next to that is the darkroom. As you can see in the middle picture, the actual set up of the darkroom leaves a little to be desired.
In fact, printing photographs here felt a lot like driving down an icy road.

At night.

Wearing sunglasses.

In my old ‘83 Thunderbird.

You can do it, its just you know that there are other roads out there that are set up to provide the user with the best driving experience possible. Same with darkrooms. Proper ventalation would have been GREAT. Instead I altered my usual printing habits to include times where I would close the paper box and go outside for a while to enjoy clean air.

That said, I loved every minute of it. I have a lot more to do but what I printed on Saturday really got me excited to keep shooting, developing, printing, shooting, developing, etc. Living with the photographic process keeps me challenged and energized.

I do not have access to a scanner so instead I used my phone to take a photo from one of my prints. That is Hamaguchi Kyoko and some Maiko on the right.