Energy!

When I was in my 20's I sometimes wondered what it would feel like to be old. Now that I am 42, I have the answer - energy, or lack of. I had limitless energy until about age 36. Then things started to deteriorate, it was more difficult to work long hours at whatever inspired me. To combat the loss of energy that comes with age, I became more serious about running. I have been running since age 12 because I always had too much energy, and running was a way to burn some of it. Now I run to gain energy. It seems odd, but running somehow builds my energy over time.

Today after running 13 miles in a cold rain I went into the darkroom, excited about looking at the dried negatives I developed yesterday. After cutting them I laid them onto the light box. They appear to be exposed/developed correctly, and there are 4 or 5 which I would like to work on.



I set to work on a night scene of a tree and road. I used some old (real old, from 1992) Zone VI Brilliant Grade 2, which my father-in-law gave to me last year. Unfortunately there was some staining on the bottom edges of the paper, but the image area seemed free from problems. I made 4 prints, 1 of which I had to throw in the trash because the gold toner made the left corner building too pink.

I still need to tone the prints I made for David B. a few days ago. I will hopefully get to that in the next day or two. I was going to tone them today, but I was excited about printing from new negatives.

I sold one of my newly printed photographs a few days ago on ebay, to my faithful collector in Barbados, who has about 40-50 of my best pictures. I don't know what he does with them, but it feels good to know that not all my pictures are sitting in my closet.

I felt inspired yesterday and sent a package of 2 newly printed photographs to Cory in Colorado. On the envelope I drew the two prints with details on how they were printed. Cory is a photographer, so I think he will like seeing the print drawings.

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