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Ferrygate Darkroom Club · Board No. 14

Everything we pinned up in March

A community darkroom on the third floor above the ferry terminal. Members print on Tuesdays, argue about fixer temperature on Thursdays, and pin the keepers here. Nothing is arranged. Everything is crooked on purpose.

The harbour at dusk: moored boats and a loading crane against an orange sky

Roll 214 · frame 7Last ferry out, and the whole harbour went orange for maybe ninety seconds.

Mar 03Portra 400

A kitchen counter at dawn with a kettle and enamel mugs in low window light

Roll 209 · frame 22Dita's kitchen at 6am. She let me use the last of the developer.

Feb 27HP5 +1

A rain-slicked street at night lit red and amber by shopfronts

Roll 217 · frame 2The Alhambra sign came back on after four years. We all went out.

Mar 11CineStill

Open moorland beside a reservoir, grass flattened by wind under a grey sky

Roll 211 · frame 15Walked out past the reservoir. Wind so loud you couldn't hear the shutter.

Mar 05Ektar 100

A figure turned away in the darkroom, lit only by the safelight

Roll 220 · frame 31Ren, five minutes before she told everyone she was leaving for Lisbon.

Mar 14Tri-X

Wet asphalt and blurred street light seen through falling rain

Roll 223 · frame 4Nine minutes of rain on the fire escape. Pushed two stops and hoped.

Mar 18Delta 3200

Market stalls under striped awnings, crates of vegetables and shoppers

Roll 214 · frame 19Saturday market. Awnings up, everyone shouting, nobody looking at me.

Mar 07Gold 200

Daylight falling through a window onto a worn wooden sill

Roll 211 · frame 8The stairwell window nobody has cleaned since the building opened.

Mar 05Ektar 100

The safelight itself, a soft glow over the darkroom bench

Roll 220 · frame 12Safelight portrait of the safelight. Marcus said this was cheating.

Mar 15Tri-X

Dockside cranes and pilings seen from underneath the ironwork

Roll 209 · frame 3Under the old rail bridge, waiting for the 7:14 to shake the dust down.

Feb 26HP5 +1

Late snow lying thin over open ground, already going

Roll 223 · frame 9Late snow, gone by noon. Metered for the shadows and lost them anyway.

Mar 20Delta 3200

The club enlarger standing on its bench, prints drying behind it

Roll 217 · frame 27The enlarger we bought off a school for forty pounds and a promise.

Mar 12CineStill

Roll 214 · frame 24Low tide, last frame on the roll, and honestly the best one of the month.

Mar 09Portra 400