***I found this post as a draft that’s been sitting here for the last ~18 months and happened to find the pictures I was referring to later that day so I figured I’d go ahead and post it***

I used to develop my film in a utility sink outside of our house. It was covered so I wouldn’t get wet it was raining but it was outside. It had lights and a bluetooth speaker so it was a pretty comfortable spot. Sometimes people would walk by on the sidewalk and start asking questions while I was in the middle of agitating film but otherwise it worked perfectly. After developing I would hang the negatives in the laundry room upstairs to dry.

All of this created a little bit of urgency to develop the film, dry it, scan it, and file it. At least it was really annoying to let it sit around for too long as it would just get in the way so I got pretty efficient at going everything over the course of a day. Now that we’ve moved and have some more space (and an actual indoor sink) it’s taken me a little while to get everything back on-track.

One of the things I’m getting accustomed to is having an indoor film developing space. Add a lack of urgency and it’s easy to let developed film sit unattended for an extended period of time while try to figure out how to recreate my previous efficient system of scanning and cataloging. It turns out that leaving negatives hanging in the stale humid air of an ad hoc drying cabinet for a few months leads to mildew. It was like an automatically applied instagram filter when I finally scanned these negatives. For that reason I’ve kind of left the scans alone just cleaning up obvious dust and not doing much more.