Kodak TMAX 400

Sunday was another darkroom day...and it was wonderful.  If I didn't have to eat - I could probably just live out here! ; )  I finished up the second roll of Croatia.  Had some good ones with just the first print, and then there were the harder-to-please-my-eyes ones that took 3 or 4 times, and possibly they're still not right.

I made a major change in the darkroom over the weekend.  I use Kodak Dektol developer and I've been developing for 3 minutes for FB prints, even though it says 2 minutes on the packaging.  It was my timing I came up with from all my various notes and books, etc., etc.  I have noticed that sometimes I felt my prints had a slight dingy look to them, not muddy, but yellowy.  I tried troubleshooting this problem - but to no avail.  So when I'm mixing up new Dektol on Sunday, I decided I'd try the two minutes and see what happens.  I think it solved the problem - hopefully.  I guess I should do what the packaging says in the future!
It's also very hot these days, so I am storing the Dektol in the fridge in the garage.

All the prints from this weekend are dried and pressed.  I did go back and re-print one that I have hanging at the High Hand Gallery as a 'test' to see if I could tell any difference in the developing.  The white is much whiter in the print, so I will probably change that one out. I'm not sure if I'm going back in the darkroom today as I'm out of 11x14 glossy.  I have matte paper at that size - I'm just not feeling it right now!  I'll go eat breakfast and figure it out in my head.  I could cut my mats and frame today those three 13x19 prints for the Blue Moon Gallery show in due in August.  Here's Streets of Croatia: