
We Have Contact
Over the last few days I have successfully gotten a darkroom working in my bathroom and made a couple of prints on my brother’s outdated photo paper. While there is still a good amount of work to be done to have it fully capable, it still feels so wonderful to be back in a darkroom again! You will be hearing more about it in the future here on the site but for now, just for the fun of it really, I thought I would give away the first darkroom printed image I have made in 10 years or so for free.
Yes, it’s exactly what you see above, a tiny bit of poorly exposed contact sheet to be sure all was in working order. It’s a little bigger than a business card and has a couple spots of water/chemical left on it but I figured it would be cheap and really easy to toss into an envelope and mail to someone who may enjoy having a tiny quasi print around (anywhere in the world!). The images are from the Pacific Coast in California and Yosemite and were taken with my trusty little Olympus XA2. I fully plan to begin selling darkroom prints with time as I settle back into my darkroom life so keep an eye out!
So, if you would like this fine little piece of 50ft memorabilia to tack up on a wall or toss in a drawer somewhere, signed the back as proof ;) simply toss a yes, or please, or thank you or any comment really into the comments below with a valid email address (never ever shared or used for anything else) and next monday the 18th I will randomly pick a name and write the person to get a mailing address. Sound good?
Update: So great to see all of you jumping in for a chance to win the little print! I just wanted to be sure it’s clear that this is the piece you see above, a small test strip of a contact sheet :) I hear talks of frames and the like down below and its fantastic but I want to be sure no one is disappointed in its humble small nature. Maybe I’m being too modest, who knows.
I would also like to mention that this is just the beginning, in the coming month or so I will be launching the new site design and am planning a nice giveaway and during that time a couple of proper darkroom prints will be among the fun things to share with everyone in the process. I am excited about the future and excited to the the interest this simple memento has conjured up so as always, thanks so much for your kindness and support!
I’d like one.
YES! That definitely would be a nice thing to have!
I love film, and darkrooms, and prints, so I bet I’d love getting picked to win this one :)!
Would be honoured! I can see it in a stylish frame on my wall already.
Nice one on getting back into the darkroom. I look back on my school and university days in the red light with fondness.
sounds good to me!
please pick my name! :)
I just started shooting film again. I love it.
I’ll throw my name in the hat.
Film does seem to be getting more enticing these days…
i guess there is still a room so i say ‘yes’ and ‘thank you’. :-)
pick me! I can only wish I had the space for a darkroom.
Add me to that list! Thanks for offering this
I’m in. :-)
This is totally awesome. Count me IN!
I would absolutely love a print of yours. Thank you. :)
Would love to see them, count me in. I have a place in mind.
Btw, love 50 foot radio
Would love to see them, count me in. I have a place in mind.
Btw, love 50 foot radio
I would like to see your prints and finally to have the next mixtape of 50foot radio :)
Oh, yes please! That’d definitely find a place on the walls of our new house! Pick me, pick me, pick me!
Oh yeah! ;)
I’m in for it too :)
I would like the print please :)
overyard(at)me.com
Would really like a print.
I would love it!
It’d be an awesome present for my (soon-to-be)wife and it would get a great location -once framed- in our new flat! Choose us please :-)
(even if you don’t, thanks anyway!)
That’d be awesome! Thanks for the offer!
I would be honoured to have such a piece in my collection :)
lachlan.harman[at]gmail.com
haha many people want your tiny prints. i’m giving up mine. coz i will have plenty of those in the future.
It sounds really good even for me, here in Italy! But maybe this is a problem :/
Getting this would be AWESOME! Thanks for the offer.
I would love to have this! I always love your work, and recommend it to everyone i come into contact with who loves design and photography.
I like it and would be honored to hang it up on my wall.
Yes please! That little guy looks brilliant & I could use the inspiration! :)
I am very interested in this! Love your site and beautiful photography.
You have such beautiful photos, I’d love to have a print.
Would be an honour!
Good luck to all the rest! :)
WOOOT! i would like it!…
– james
Wow. I’d love it!!
Thanks for the great blog and keep posting!
Great! I hope I can get one,
Thanks J.
Almost too late, but I’m in as well!
I’m gonna toss in all 3, yes! please! and thank you for the opportunity to possibly win some 50ft prints! I’d be totally stoked to have this framed and up in my house.
There’s just so much nostalgia when it comes to using film and developing it in a darkroom! Would LOVE to have a piece like this ^_^
I think you misspelled the word “Lonley” on your website. If you want to keep errors off of your site we’ve successfully used a tool like SpellPros.com in the past for our websites. A nice customer pointed out our mistakes so I’m just paying it forward :).