Something new to keep myself busy

Someone was buried there as late as 2014 or something like that. Family plot. I haven't taken the DIY plunge yet.

I understand, but the b&w film is super easy. You can get the equipment used for almost nothing. I had a darkroom set up in the spare bedroom of my first house and I used it a lot.
Finally got to working too much overtime and had to give it up for the wife's shoes.

I've seen where I can basically do it in my kitchen, just need a changing bag to load film onto spools I guess, then the chemicals.  One of these days.

This one's really striking. The geometric shapes. The harsh, strong contrast. The textures.

This was shot on Kodak Portra 160

I'm still figuring things out.  Don't always seem to have a lot of time.  Especially while working graveyard shift.  

I've completely lost what film knowledge I had. I knew the Fuji films pretty well for a while, some of the Ilford b&w films, and a couple of the Kodak ones a little bit, but that all went by the wayside.

I've seen where I can basically do it in my kitchen, just need a changing bag to load film onto spools I guess, then the chemicals.  One of these days.

That sounds like a really interesting setup.  I still have cameras I've purchased or had serviced I need to test.  I have some relatively inexpensive B&W film, Kentmere PAN 100 and 400 24 EXP, I use to test cameras.  It's only 4.99 a roll for 35mm.  It's manufactured by Harmon Technology who also does Ilford.  I just need to take it one step at a time.  I need to learn to develop the film.  I'll buy the stuff and figure it out eventually.  I do have a couple of different scanners for film so I'm ok there.  Personally, I don't like messing with my negatives on the computer.  The software I have is fair, but I'm not going to pay the subscription to adobe for lightroom and photoshop.  Being color blind doesn't help either.  I just know what I like to look at.  I will use the software I have to clean up bad spots of old negatives I have when I have scanned them.  The only film class I ever took was in the seventh grade.  Probably only one semester, but I can't really remember.  I did shoot some b&w film of some ducks at a park on a Kodak Instamatic.  It's all mom could afford.  It was the family camera.  My problem is, I tend to be a collector of things.  I get into something, and I buy a bunch of different versions of whatever it may be, then I'll eventually calm down.  For example, I got into wet shaving.  I have many old razors, brushes, blades, etc. but I usually just use the same stuff.  I really like fountain pens, so I got a bunch of different ones of those, I haven't used them all, but I have them.  When I started smoking pipes, sheesh, I only have a couple of "expensive" pipes, but I also have a lot of cheap pipes.  I really dig some of the old Dr. Grabow pipes, so I have a bunch of those, and cobs, and others.  Along with the tobacco.  Tobacco is a little easier, because if there is something I don't like, I won't buy it.  Then I got into photography and film cameras.  Holy macaroni.  I may have gone just a little overboard.  Like I said, I still have many cameras to test.  Besides the cameras I purchased on my own, I also got a couple from members here that I haven't tested yet, from pepesdad1 and urbino and I feel bad about that. I don't have a Leica rangefinder, but I do have a Leica SLR, which was actually pretty cheap.  I did get a Hasselblad 500 C/M, still need to test it.  And many other various 35mm and 120 film cameras.  Plus 3 digital cameras.  Without my wife here to keep me in check, I lost a little control.  But as with most things, I've started to lose my acquisition cravings.  The biggest thing I'm short of most of the time is, well, time.  That's me in a nutshell.  I will post more pics if I find any worthy of posting.  That was kind of a rambling post, wasn't it?