Fixer Formula T-Shirt Size:S

Fixer Formula T-Shirt Size:SNa2S2O35H2O. Sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate to everyone else a chemistry set mouthful; to a darkroom printer, fixer. Hypo. The bath that clears the unexposed silver halides and makes the image permanent, the step between a latent picture and one you can carry into the light without it vanishing. Every black and white negative and fibre print that has survived a century owes its life to this formula. I never learned the darkroom myself I came up on

no caption: a line

I aspire to it roughly once a week

because a triangle with two corners is a line

to a photographer it’s the truth

with a small bird perched on the end of the barrel — sitting exactly where a bird photographer spends entire mornings hoping one will land

Punctuality and wildlife photography have never once been on speaking terms

and the whole craft of not blowing your whites or crushing your blacks lives in reading this shape correctly

Every birder

The film photographer’s brain

Just one more

Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston

lens board