Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

After long winter is extremely nice to see such a strong light and to feel little warm soft wind blowing into hair. This is especially true in Sweden. Air is quite cold but sharp Sun starts to warm up a walls of houses. Gamla Stan, Stockholm.

I am enjoying it today very much. Work is nicely progressing. I have fix some problems on web as planned yesterday. Print from portrait session is ready. It took quite a while and I needed to do few test prints on final paper (expensive). I also put one picture on web. It's name is spring house, and is for me extremely refreshing. Together with the fact that we had very foggy and rainy weather in last three days and the sunny afternoon now, brings me mood very high.
I am just printing it. I went for Ilford Smooth Pearl paper and 2880 dpi. I see a piece from printer and it look extremely good. It is fantastic! And guess what? Probably you have no idea but this was done on Maco up100+ with the extended development in Paterson Aculux 2. The tonality with the strong light and contrast makes special feeling.

While being with children on a nice trip we visited one of those child parks which have sort of farm. Children can play with animals and see how do they live. I was amazed by light in this old farm house which was occupied by few rabbits.

I need a break, whole day I was busy with printing, scanning and little web coding. I have put another picture. Also made on Maco up100+ this time developed by Rodinal 1+25. Print look quite ok, actually very good. Only to much pronounced grain could be for somebody a bit of problem. Well, it is not so bad on this print as it contains a lot of details and grain is masked by them.
We have party tonight so I need to move a bit. I hope you enjoyed new photos, more will come as I did scan of four more today. Just need process them a little and make some prints. As you know I never publish anything I didn't print at least as test. So enjoy your Friday afternoon and see you tomorrow!

BTW: Anybody like to buy Olympus OM-2s program?