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07/14/2004 Entry: "darkroom tonight"

It's been a pretty crazy week already and it's only half way through. We're house/dog sitting while my brother and his family are out of town for two weeks. Trying to take care of two houses and two pets at opposite ends of town has me thoroughly hating rush hour traffic, even more so with the congestion due to street closures for ArtScape.

Despite the scheduling and travel troubles, life in a more rural area has been sweet. Walking the dog up the lane to fetch the mail invariably includes seeing at least a deer or two. Yesterday evening, a doe and three fawns wandered out of the brush and grazed on the lawn for a few minutes. The quiet has been making for restful nights, even sleeping in a strange bed. There's no sirens, gunshots, rap music, fireworks, traffic, etc. Quiet broken only by a few bird calls and the caw-caw-caw of the crows.

Tonight after work is the first chance I've had to get into the darkroom and work on the negs from Saturday's trip. Had a nasty surprise in developing the IR film. Seems a camera I lent to someone a few months ago now has a light leak which fogged an entire roll. I still have a roll of b/w and half a roll of IR shot in a different body, so it isn't a total loss.

I'll have plenty to keep me busy. If the weather and scheduling work out, there may be a day off from work on Monday to go play photography at Kilgore Falls with a model from Philadelphia. She's shooting over the weekend with some photgraphers to the south of here and wanted to do a shoot with me on her way back home. She's up for some IR work and even more interested in doing some pinhole photos. I just hope she realizes how dull it can be to hold a pose for the several minutes a pinhole exposure can drag out.