>>4308149maximum comfy
getting in there early and being greeted by the smell of the stop bath and the gentle red light
Setting up your baths and your work station, doing your first gradient tests for your print
The feel and rythm of rocking your baths, the meditave state of the artisan focusing on his work and also taking a step back to rest in this calmness
watching the paper floating, the image revealing itself and changing over time
The shimmer and glimmer of silver at the bottom of the bath used for the developer; it appears black, but the scratches shine as soon as you pour that chemistry on them
Getting the print out of the stop bath and looking at it under the light, close to your face, in the red light and with a wet print the contrast is beautiful
I set up a smaller one later in my bathroom, over a summer, to do pinhole photography and 4x5 photos directly on photographic paper, I loved taking showers in the red light for a while
That one was set up for this series of photos, each night I'd light a candle, open the shutter of the camera in front of it, wait till it had burned down completely, developed the "film" and hung it to try, then went to bed
About 4 weeks like that, it was wonderful
