Happy Canada Day, everyone. In the absence of any actual photography (I have some digital stuff in the pipeline, but sadly, have not taken out the Rolleiflex in several weeks) here are some interesting links that may of interest to my readers (are you out there?)

• Two-Bath Development: Exposure and Development Strategy for Scanning by Sandy King (PDF). This is an article from a back-issue of View Camera magazine in which Sandy King, champion of alternative processes, ultra-large format, and catechol-based developers, describes the advantages of divided developers for hybrid workflows.
• My friend Jon Day-Reiner, formerly of groundglass.ca, has re-joined the photoblog world with 18% Gray, and he’s shooting large-format.
• A list of 40 photography e-magazines – the ones I’ve looked at are quite good.

I developed a few rolls of B&W film last week — the first home B&W I’ve done in about six months. (Having a baby in the house will do that to you.) I mixed up fresh fixer and a new batch of Thornton’s metol two-bath developer, then proceeded to soup up two rolls of Neopan 400 that I had recently put through the Rolleiflex.

The results, while not exactly “bulletproof”, were very dense (due to overdevelopment, not overexposure). I don’t think I made any weighing errors, so I’m blaming the relatively high temperature of my Part A solution (it was about 27-28C) even though divided developers are usually considered insensitive to temperature and time.

I still managed to salvage a few good images from these rolls (including the one above). Better luck next time, I guess.