Bob,
Me too.
When young, I printed on Saturday and Sunday. At the crack of noon, i would
scurry over to a liquor store on the corner c-- walking distance to by a
siz pack -- my first of the day. <grin> The young clerk would look at me
and say,our smell like a darkroom. He could always tell when I was printing.
--Dick Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:54 AM, bobkiss caribsurf.com via
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wrote:
"I love the smell of Amadol in the morning...smells like...HISTORY!"
All seriousness aside, in REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Proust mentions that
even a waft of a whiff of his deceased mother's perfume brought intense
visual and other memories of time with her flooding into his consciousness.
Those of us who were raised on chemical photography will probably always
have a strange form of nostalgia for certain smells; the sharp smell of
acetic acid stop bath, the slightly sulfurous smell of degenerating
thiosulfate ions, and for me, the chemical refinery smell of Amadol. I
first smelled it at RIT when we did sensi strips comparing various
developing agents. Then, when I started doing my personal work around 93
after my advertising/fashion career, I started mixing Adam's amadol dev.
Dektol had its own smell but not as interesting as Amadol.
I also loved the smell of 35mm film, especially color, when I first opened
the canister, originally metal, then plastic. It was some unique
combination of sweetness, paint, and chemicals.
Just some nostalgic thoughts for a Friday morning...
CHEERS!
BOB
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