Wallace Koopmans Artlog

P.S. where is the spell check on this thing?

While scanning some old negatives I came across a fragment of a contact print I would have done as a teenager.  When I was in my late teens I converted my parents camper into a dark room.  It took quite a bit of effort to get it dark enough that I could do colour prints from slides.  Without running water I used a large 5 gallon jug with a spout as my water source.  I also repourposed a heater from an aquarium to keep a constant temperature for my liquids and measured the temperature with a thermometer for wine making.  Looking back it was a lot of effort but also a wonderful experience.  I printed both black and white and later the more demanding colour Type R process.  Type R was a way of printing directly from a positive slide to a positive print without the need for an inter-negative.  I loved the black borders this gave my images.  These papers are no longer made so this process is no longer possible, but printing from a scanned slide now produces equally as good results with a lot less effort.

You can see on the right side of this 8×10″  Type R print the two holes from the clip I used to hang it to dry.