In the Dark

The photographic darkroom - a place where magic happens.
"I then thought of trying again a method which I had tried many years before. This method was to take a camera obscura and to throw the images of the objects on a piece of paper in its focus - fairy pictures, creations of a moment, and destined as rapidly to fade away. How charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper."
~ William Henry Fox Talbot, October 1833

Lumen Prints
This process includes expired BW resin coated paper, items of interest, water, and Hypo mixed 1:9. It is mid-November and there is a cloudless sky - perfect for consistent exposures, however, the sun travels low in the southern sky. No matter - the exposures work. Each are exposed from 60 to 75 minutes. Objects used are primarily organic matter, but some sugary gel and paper snowflakes were also experimented with. After exposure times, prints go down to the darkroom with the safelight on, water wash for 30 seconds, Hypo for 2 minutes, then water wash for 20 minutes.