We're skipping some numbers here because they're coded at time of loading and sometimes you shoot and develop and scan one while others are still partway shot or unloaded and still waiting on development.

I was motivated to get this one finished somewhat quickly because as I was loading it last weekend on the border of Chinatown a young woman came up and asked if I could take a couple pictures of her. My 24mm was on for street stuff but I did also have a 50mm in my bag so I dug it out and threw a red filter on and realized it's actually really hard to focus through one of those!

But it's fine, it was fine.


She gave me her instagram handle to share them with her later and I said it'd probably be "about a week." I met up with a friend and didn't shoot anything else that day; I did a quick little neighborhood walk on Monday (4 shots, would've been 2 if i wasn't trying to burn); one shot of my birdfeeder on Tuesday I was so pressed.

Nothing else until Sunday when after a harsh two-night cold snap we lucked into highs near 50 and what was supposed to be full cloud coverage being light cover with occasional breaks. So I went out and forced myself through the remaining 27 shots while I wandered the park trying to spot the eagle (which I did do!)

Mixed up some fresh DD-X 1+4 since I can't even remember when I made the last batch, tested my fixer on a clipping (it's still doing fine) and set about a no-frills by the book 10 minute development with about 10 seconds (6 inversions) per minute of agitation.

No alarms, no surprises.
wait that's not true actually I forgot to empty the stop bath (water) so I lost like 100ml of fixer to that before realizing my mistake but I still had plenty to work with it's cool

Nikon FE2, Rollei Retro 400S (DX: 854011)
Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 (10m @ ~69F)
Konica Minolta DiMAGE SE5400II => VueScan => Adobe Lightroom Classic

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