Photography is a bit of thing here at Excellimore Towers. Perhaps it’s an acceptable mode of artistic expression for us introverted techie types…
![Roger explains the development process](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film01-1024x768.jpg)
![the developer in action](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film02-1024x768.jpg)
We have a Lunch & Learn a couple of times a month, and Roger decided that rather than research something technical he would develop a film for us, right here, in the office.
So, working blind inside a darkroom bag, Roger took the film from a cassette, loaded it into the spiral and then into the developing tank.
He mixed up his developer solution from instant coffee and Vitamin C (it smells foul), explained the process while agitating the tank to develop, stop, fix and wash the film, and finally hung it up to dry.
![first look at the developed film!](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film03-1024x768.jpg)
![Roger, the developer](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film04-1024x676.jpg)
See the snaps here for the pictures taken and developed in our office that morning – all without spilling any fixer on the carpet!
![Martin & Ewa](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film09-1024x672.jpg)
![Adam, in despair...](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film06-1024x664.jpg)
![a bear](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film07-1024x669.jpg)
![Ben, happy to be photographed!](https://www.xlmr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/learn_film10-1024x666.jpg)