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Going through the black and white negatives I shot with my Holga, it's frustrating how many of them are poorly printed. In a few weeks time I will have my darkroom set up and I will be able to (re)print them at a larger scale and with more attention paid than commercial developers can afford to pay. I expect to bungle the first few attempts, but I believe that familiar bicycle adage applies. It will be fulfilling to see the photographs that I intended to be more than snapshots exist as something more than snapshots.
The reason for postponing the set-up of the darkroom is that I want to wait until after my upcoming trip to upstate New York. Staying at a relative's beautiful farmhouse on 200 or so acres with nothing specific to do is going to be a wonderful opportunity to indulge in a bit of photography. I'm looking forward to doing some night work especially. Hopefully the weather will be clear enough to shoot star trails, but an eerie nighttime fog is welcome as well. I also intend to record a bit of family story-telling for vocolo.org practice, as well as record the shapes of objects on the solar-print paper I used to love as a child.
I didn't realize the solar print technique was used by the military to make quick copies of strategic maps drawn on tracing paper. This gives me a bit of an urge to use it in making drawings myself, or contact prints of photographs.
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