It’s been hot here, into the upper nineties and hotter for a week until last night. D76 isn’t great at high temperatures. Something about one of the developing agents working faster than the other, and the contrast builds quickly above 72F even if you adjust your times. It had been a while since I’d used D76, and I’d forgotten this if I’d ever known it. I’d also forgotten how smeary it can make Tri-X look. Not a sharp combo, particularly not compared to a film like TMY2 in XTOL or Tmax developer. Sharpness isn’t everything, but it’s something, and when also aren’t getting great shadows, it’s hard to love D76 as a 35mm developer.

But the burgers were good . . .

OM1, Zuiko 50, Neopan 1600, D76

OM1, Zuiko 50, Neopan 1600, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 1600, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

It’s never too early to start thinking about this . . .

• My vacation to [blah] (SoFoBoMo as an excuse to take a vacation)
• Verticals in a horizontal frame
• Horizontals in a vertical frame
• Once in a Lifetime, in pictures (that’s a good one)
• Thirty-five chapters from A Pattern Language
• Six beers with your sweetie
• One week, walking
• Call me Ishmael. Go!
• A selection from The First 100 Chinese Characters
• Ten Blocks on the Camino Real or the street of your choice.
• Act out the color red, in black and white.
• Thirty-five objects that you come in contact with every day
• Fibonacci Sequence
• Tessellation
• The Periodic Table
• All hail Xylitol, our new galactic overlord.
• Tangent(the first thread was better, but I couldn’t find it)
• A progressive dinner
• Not in my yard
• You kids, get off my lawn!
• Alliteration: your letter is Q
• I don’t have to answer any of these questions

These are free to use for anyone, but I might just do that Talking Heads one myself, so if you do it, you’ll be that girl who wore the same dress as the birthday girl.

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400@250, D76

M6TTL, 50 Hex, Neopan 400, D76