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VickiB
After succumbing to the calls of the digital Sirens for several years, I have finally come back home to film. I am new to the darkroom, however. I am sharing this luxurious darkroom that Pavel built and am quickly learning that I have found my true home as I bask in the amber glow of the safelights and inhale the pungent odor of fixer. Partly through instruction and partly through trial and error, I am quickly learning the joys of making test strips and dodging and burning and selenium toning (we've had the room in its present state for less than two weeks!), and I am finding a deep satisfaction in the knowledge that I am creating something of beauty with my own hands and a few chemicals . . . and light.
In addition to cameras and film and the darkroom, I also share with Pavel a passion for photographing the historic cemeteries of the American South. I am attaching one of my first darkroom successes--a photograph I took last weekend at Oakdale Cemetery in the coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina. I look forward both to learning from those of you who have the knowledge and the experience I lack and to sharing ideas and photos with a group of like-minded people. |
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Hello Vicki and welcome to FADU. I enjoyed reading your introduction and also looking at the image.
Neil.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle Neil Souch |
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Welcome to fadu Vickie and the darkroom.
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Cheers, Barry |
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Welcome to the forum Vicki
Bill |
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Hi and welcome to FADU
Neil |
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Hi Vicki and welcome to fadu,look froward to your posts and seeing some of your work.Richard
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Welcome Vicki. Great print.
Mike |
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Welcome from Down Under, Vicki. I'm glad to see anothjer cemetery enthusiast. Ours can't match the quality of that stone-work, though.
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Alive and clicking Down Under. A sad case of GAS - 8x10 pinhole down to 35mm slr and rf |
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Cemetery photography
Stan, it's always nice to find someone who understands our passion for hanging out in old cemeteries--the older and mossier, the better. This weekend we're going to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, one of the most beautiful we have found in the Southern US.
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