Roll eps16: Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (May 1966)
Making music for each other was an essential way to pass the time. Several of my roommates played stringed instruments; some played more than one. I developed a lifelong love of folk and old-time music from rooming with these guys.
I badly scratched this exposure while fumbling around in the changing bag, and I can't quite believe how much time I've spent cleaning up the scan given it's just a picture of a pile of detritus I found in the woods, but I love the lighting and wanted to save it.
(Freestyle photo in SoCal now carries Bellini’s ECN-2 chemicals. So now I have a mini lab at home where I can process, well, almost everything. All of these, and black and white in different chemicals as well)
Hard to believe that a year ago I didn’t know how to do any of this and now I have strong opinions and brand and product preferences on all of it
Tomorrow I get to do something fun: I get to lick the science!
My last bottle of DD-X developer expired (quite spectacularly, I had to get a hacksaw to open it and add it to the disposal container), but I've got ONE roll of film left to process.
Instant coffee
Ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C)
Washing soda (sodium carbonate)
Two of those, are lickable. That's the delta recipe for #caffenol, although I'm using it for HP5+ not Delta, it's still effective. I could've gone with Caffenol-C-H instead but that needs potassium bromide which can't be delivered as quickly and I'm not a patient person (hah!)