If wishes were praxis, we'd all shplank. As is, I went for actual completion of a task vs. continuing to drive myself batty in hiking up an Everestian learning curve in order to make the ne plus ultra photograph of my desire. From scratch.

Ah well. There will be more light to capture, more paper, more tea, in days to come.

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update:

here's what I wanted to do that utterly didn't work. In a "Get messy! Make mistakes!" fashion, I failed gloriously.

I had wanted to make my player photograph completely from scratch, starting with capturing light on photographic paper with a pinhole camera and developing it myself.

During my research, I found evidence and discussion of origami pinhole cameras made *of* photographic paper and decided to make one myself.




I had read that caffeine + Vitamin C could be used to develop film, so decided to try it.

All of the mistakes in design and execution ---> a square of photographic paper that had been cut, folded, taped, and wet yet utterly unmarked. Ohwell. As I said earlier, there will be more light to capture, more paper, more tea in days to come.


Either that, or I am remarkably unphotographable.