Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson" 
<peter@s...> wrote:
> 
> You must be young.  Nowadays very few people do their own wet 
> darkroom work so those that do are in the "enthusiast" category.   
> They do it because they LIKE the process, they ENJOY the 
> experimenting and tinkering, etc.   That's why all the ones you 
know 
> today seem to be avid tinkerers.


Actually I have been doing wet darkroom work since the late 50's. 
And to me it has always been a joy and a learning experience. To 
tell you the truth, I have always cosidered myself more of a 
printer, than a photographer. In fact I would take in prints from my 
friends who didn't like that part of the process. Even before the 
internet, I would read everything I could find, on printing, both 
silver, and alternative processses. For the last few years, I have 
not had a darkroom avaialable to me. For me, inkjet printing is just 
one more tool, that I want to add to my knowledge base. If I 
expected a turn key operation, I would just talk my shots to the 
local one hour photo place and be done with it.