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Some people commune with nature to clear their minds, I’ve got my darkroom. The past few days have been spent working through a backlog of prints. Today’s session was from mid summer. Some digital snaps taken while the prints were still in the wash:

Been catching up in the darkroom this past week.

I’ve got a question for those with greater darkroom skills than I- – this is the print:

But after the wash I noticed this spot:

I get these spots from time to time on my prints. Not usually this large, but sometimes there will be more than one. I am not exactly sure at what point in the printing process they are formed but I do notice small bubbles of air on my prints at times and surmise that this lighter circle is from such a bubble. The negative itself is fine, so I know this happens sometime in the darkroom.

Does anyone know what it could be? Is it from. . .

A. When the print is face down in the developer, air bubbles are trapped and keep developer from the latent image?

B. When the print is face up in the developer a small part of the paper is too near the surface, and too little chemistry hits the print?

Either way, more concentration on the paper in the chemistry is needed. That or more consistent agitation. My printing pace is fairly quick- as soon as one workprint is in the developer I’m preparing the enlarger with the next negative. One sheet per image keeps things going smoothly- – except for times like this when it doesn’t.