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Subject: Re: An interesting article on photography in the Grand Canyon

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Wes

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Date Posted: 18:58:00 04/28/15 Tue
In reply to: Mike 's message, "An interesting article on photography in the Grand Canyon" on 15:17:10 04/28/15 Tue

Good article.

>I grew up in my dad's photo studio, rocking trays at
>8, doing protraits at 12. I can still remember the
>smell of the developer, stop bath (weak acetic acid)
>and "fixer" solution (sodium thiosulfate, aka "hypo").

I did darkroom stuff for nearly forty years and toward the end it was a real pain in the neck to do it, so I was real glad to see digital come along. The last time I shot film was when I did my Grand Canyon trip in 2003; in those days water and digital cameras didn't get along very well -- and still mostly don't. The last time the darkroom at the paper was used for anything other than junk storage was when my daughter did a photography class in 2002.

I miss those days more than a little, but at the same time I'm just as glad that I don't have to do it.

-- Wes

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