All first times are enjoyable, though its kinda chaotic when you don't really know what your doing! And of course I am speaking about the first time I tried to develop film. It was going alright, I had all the equipment set up in front of me. Should be a breeze I thought as I closed the door. One dropped film later followed several minutes scrambling finally led to completion of part one. The second part was more enjoyable, I enjoyed rambling around looking at the photographs on the wall in the thirty seconds between "agitations".
In the end by some divine chance the negatives actually developed correctly. Yes, it took an hour longer than digital and yes it was ridiculously meticulous work. However, when I held the dripping negatives I felt much closer to them than any digital work of art that my point an shoot camera ever produced.
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