[LargeFormat] Philosophy

[Wilkes, Don MSER:EX]

> Yup I know the feeling of setting up a darkroom. Mine took me 
> about 6 weeks in all. Sweating pipe drilling through concrete walls for
the 


Oh, if it had only been six weeks!  It took most of a year for mine.  It
started as a ghastly pit of ugliness in a corner of the basement, and a
*lot* of time was consumed in ripping out everything in sight.  Since we'd
put in a new gas furnace, the old oil tank went, freeing up gobs of room.
But, this meant pulling the old fuel lines out from where they were
half-buried in the concrete floor, patching and grinding the resulting holes
in the floor, and spitting out concrete dust for days -- not fun. And, that
was the easy part...

I did learn quite a bit about a lot of the trades -- rather more than I
wanted, in some instances (drywalling immediately leaps to mind).  And, if
it hadn't been for my handyman buddy Bob leading the way, I'd probably still
be at it, and doing an appalling job.

But, now I have an honest-to-goodness darkroom, with a genuine *door* that
opens and closes, walls that are smooth and white, a real sink for the
trays, and a honkin' big Durst 138S begging me to get out there and shoot
some film.

Sometimes, life is good.

\donw