Venice in Black and White

The prints pressed well last night - I must have gotten them when they were not so wet and yet not so dry!  So, basically at the right time!  Unfortunately, I keep forgetting that my scanner is only 10x12" so I can't capture the whole 11x14 for you, but it gets most of it.  Here is one I took early in the morning in Venice and the Teddy bear holding the wine bottle really got me!  Someone was having fun the night before.

What you can't see is the doorway to the right is where I did some dodging so you could still see a little something of what was inside the doorway.  But I liked the whole scenario with the barrels and the vine and leaves, and the texture of the brick wall staircase.  Out of the six prints, I used eight sheets of paper and that was just about enough with the chemicals.  They were just starting to get spent.  Because of the larger size, you have more silver halide particles left in the chemicals than you would if you were developing at 8x10 size  I probably could have gotten twelve 8x10 prints with the same amount of chemicals.  And then there are others who would argue that scenario too! ; )  So be it!

Today I have other things on the agenda, but hopefully back in the darkroom on Saturday!