Bringing the Analog back to the Digital.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 or 60 rolls of black and white film. Most were taken for school project and some just because. What I don't have is access to a dark room.
I love my digital camera, and hopefully will be updating it soon. That said there is a deep visceral joy in processing your own film, and making your own prints. It takes the technical and puts the art back into it. From the choice of which filters to use, what exposure, what paper stock, cropping or not. Every print even if you follow the exact same steps each time will be unique, no one will ever be exactly the same. When I did have access during photography classes, I would tuck my mp3 player someplace where the digital display would not cause accidental exposure, and simply let myself over to the whim of the chemicals. Most of the prints I made however, I let the person whose picture it was have them. So a number of my favorite shots are stuck in a small 35 mm square, tucked safely in their protective sleeves. I lamented the loss of he ability to tinker with development. That is until we purchased a scanner that has the ability to scan photo negatives. Scanning these negatives give me a digital backup of irreplaceable film(film is highly flammable and susceptible to environmental factors) it gives me the chance to play, if only in a digital way. As soon as my beloved lap top is either laid to her well deserved rest and I get a replacement, or she is fixed and risen from the ashes of her mostly dead status, This project will commence. I have no idea on the time frame it will take me to get them scanned, but start looking for them by the end of the month (fingers crossed!). For those that modeled for me for those pictures, let me know if you want copies of any of the pictures and I will send you the large format super uber file that you can blow up to poster size. Most likely I will retake several of the classes, not for credit, but just to have dark room privileges.