Darkroom Supplies

I headed into Sacramento and purchased the 11x14 FB paper as well as more Fixer yesterday.  Spoke with  my friend Chris Buckley who said his first "Beginning Digital Photography" class went very well with about 11 people.  His next scheduled class for this same subject is now scheduled for July 29, 2012.  He also will give one-on-one classes if you're interested.  Again, here is the class website and info:  www.MirthToEarth.com/PhotoClasses .  I could probably take one of these classes too!

I also started to cut the mats for the three 13x19 images I'll be framing.  I'm not real happy with the mat board I purchased from Aaron Bros. I like mat board that has a little texture and the one I purchased doesn't but it was the closest to the white I wanted.  I had some light gray mat board on hand that I cut to see if that would look good with the black and white images - now I'm not so sure about either one.  I normally would purchase my mat board from Delta Mat & Moulding.  It's just so far away - all the way over off Hwy. 50!!  I should have done it yesterday.  Instead of 4-ply, maybe I should bump it up to 8-ply and do away with double matting.  However, cutting 8-ply is harder to cut and I'm not as young as I used to be!  What to do...

Yesterday I also was looking online for the prints on metal.  I need one more large print for the upcoming Large Format Show at High Hand Gallery starting in September.  And right now, several online companies who provide that technique (www.MagnaChrome.com being one) are having sales thru July.  MagnaChrome had the better prices I believe and you don't have to give them your whole life's story to order.  Either a large print on metal or a large print on metallic paper which I would still have to have someone else do.  Wish I had a larger printer.  Still thinking about that one.