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please check ‘em out. he does fantastic work, and these indeed are fantastic photos.

beat rabbi, originally uploaded by jon madison.

shoot with casey aka beat rabbi yesterday.

was supposed to be participating in the renton art walk today, but it did not work out. :-(

new-cheese, originally uploaded by jon madison.

#1 tooth came out today!

well, he came down from nap, sat on my lap, and we played with the tooth a bit. i did a “1 2 3″ *snatch!* but it didn’t come out…bled some though. the second time i tried, he wasn’t having it again, but for the cryer he is, was surprisingly cool about it…

fast forward an hour or so, playing outside while mommy’s gone…i had ‘em come sit next to me on the stairs. “we gotta get you to think of something else…open your mouth”. “ahhh”. i wriggled the tooth a bit. “think about balloons…how about chocolate?” “i will…” *snap*! he got giddy and was jumping up and down cheering! i’m so excited and was into my plan that i didn’t think too much about where i had done it…on concrete set of stairs, with little embedded white stones all over! we did locate the tooth though (it was the rock with blood on it :)

i loved his attitude about the whole thing.

women looking over that way at night on a different roll of tri-x film that was pushed, taken with canonet QL17GIII, originally uploaded by jon madison.

a quick reference. i guess i should say what you need

get a funnel, some bottles for developer, a stirrer (wooden spoon or something) fixer, photo flo solution. just really try not to get the chemicals on stuff you shouldn’t. they’re probably dangerous :)
you’ll also need a developing canister, and go ahead and get a changing bag, unless you want to be stuck having to always wait until night or go into your garage (or both :) and load your film

i sent this to one of my flickr contacts so i figured i’ll regurgitate it here. it took 5 minutes to write. i’m telling you, once you do it about 2 times it’s super simple. loading the film onto the reels is probably harder. and pretty much gets only marginally easier ‘cos you have to do it in the dark. anyway:

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35mm soak 1 min
120 soak 5 min
diafine DONT SOAK AT ALL

pour in developer, time it for whatever time you need to for your film (instructions are on the developer itself, more times at www.digitaltruth.com)
diafine — 3 minutes A, pour it back in its bottle, 3 minutes in B. no exception, DO NOT GET B IN A (it’s okay to get some A in B, though, and it’s gonna happen anyway by virtue of the film itself having some A on it when you throw B in the canister)

dump developer (or pour back into bottle–if you do you have to adjust dev times by i think 10% each time each reuse), “stop bath”, pour in fixer. i use ilford rapid fixer…starts at 2 minute fixing.

after fixing is done open up the canister to take a look. if its still purplish quickly put it back in and do another few minutes of fixing.

if its all good, rinse for 5 minutes

pour out rinse, dip in photo-flo solution, and hang to dry until they’re dry.

feel free to ask questions. i post this up ‘cos i always have trouble now finding the chromogenic.net article that i first learned from.

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dicks-closing, originally uploaded by jon madison.

:-(