A mixed day

I thought that I would be spending time today with a friend, but seeing as she seems to gone 'incomunicado' I decided it was time to get back to working on the studio.  I'm not a plumber, so I had a dripping joint on a water pipe and a leak on a waste pipe, not bad for a photographer when you look at how much plumbing I had done!  I spent the first hour stripping and reassembling the pipes, then paper towels on floor, checked both the water pipes and the waste and no drips.  My pride was misplaced though.  I went down to the car to bring some more equipment up, and as I got back I heard running water!  One of the push fit connectors on the water pipe had come apart, the pressure is pretty high!  Its a good job that I continued the vinyl floor a few inches up the walls.

Plumbing finished, and floor dried, time to tackle the joints in the plasterboard.  By lunch I had done the walls and ceiling in the entrance corridor and the boxed in sections in the studio, so ready to start painting once it has dried.  Next one of the most stupid decisions I have made in a long time.  I loaded up the car with all of the old plasterboard, rubbish and scrap and headed of the the recycling depot.  I cued for about twenty minutes just to get in.  Its great that everything is segregated for recycling, but it takes everyone such a long time to walk between all of the designated containers.

After lunch I removed all of my small tanks from my old darkroom and got them fitted into the Nova sink.  So now I have my Kodak 15 lire wash tank, the medium format tanks (minus 1 lid) and the 10x8 Nova tanks that I use for E6.  All attached to individual taps.

You know you are too tired when - 

1st plate, put plate holder in camera wrong, 

2nd plate, straight into silver without collodion; 

3rd plate; forgot to pull the dark side out; 

4th plate, underexposed; 

5th plate, ok.

Luckily these were all 5x7 glass plates. Finally this 10x12 on trophy plate. I also shot a 10x12 on plain glass with a little more exposure.  The plate is better than it looks here, rubbish phone shot with reflections