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2025-04-21 10:47 pm

Coming full circle as a photographer. Shoot, develop, scan, print.

 I finally have all the stuff to shoot, develop, scan, and print my own photos.  But I haven't done it yet.  I've shot plenty of photos, but I'm honestly a little nervous when it comes to the developing.  It's one part of photography that I've never done before.  I have some in paper knowledge, but no practical experience with it.  
I imagine it's like the first time you drive a car with a manual transmission, nothing about it is hard, but almost everyone stalls the first couple times.  I expect my first couple times will be probably be a bit shaky at least.  I'll probably run through the procedure with just water a time or two just to get the motions down, then dive into the chemestry and try a roll.  
it's funny to me that after all these years of photography, I've never done this, even though I started with film way back when.  But I've decided tomorrow is the day.  I'm going to get past this bout of nerves and take the next step.  Being able to do it all in house will be a huge boon and push me forward.  
I'm not nervous anymore, I'm eager.  I can do this.  Tomorrow is the day.