You’ll have to wait on the full details, but here is what I’ve established as guidance for how we’ll operate.
Staff on-hand to provide support and we’ll handle the chems. Sinks have silver scrubbers on the drains, and will get recycled (as an aside, environmental guidance for photo labs is well established in the state…I haven’t polluted while making plates, not going to start now).
The darkroom is only one part of this, ah, adventure, which will include what I mentioned in post 26 above. Hours will be limited at first until the store revenue supports a full time staff. B/C of this and to minimize spread of COVID, customers will be able to book online for darkroom time. So you’ll have a choice of time to book. Membership gets you more slots to choose from, save some $$ on store supplied chems, paper, stuff like that.
I appreciate the offer to help. I think there will be opportunities for that and will keep it in mind. If you have a way to add 30 hours in a day, I could really use that to get everything done.
Goal is to build up a community resource — an analog photography destination / center of activity for this area. Something which has been lacking in Southern New Hampshire.
Btw there’s also a darkroom being stood up in Concord, and I’m going to be talking to Gary Samson about how to collaborate / coordinate with that effort.
