Darkroom Fun

I couldn't really find a category for this. There are no darkroom creation, contact printing, or "Rayograph" options under photography or printmaking. It could fall under photography - sort of - if you think of the paper as the film, the darkroom as the camera, and the enlarger as the lens. The only major difference is the subjects are inside the camera.

This is just some stuff laid on photo paper and flashed with the enlarger. I got to waste a lot of paper like this when the photo lab I worked at was changing the processing chemistry from RA4 to a faster processing solution making all paper we had at the time obsolete and unusable. I stayed at the lab till 3:00am using all the paper I could since we'd be tossing it the next day when we changed the processer over.

The left side is the resultant print and the right is, more or less, how it all looked laying on the paper (though with any details in opaque elements completely missing since it's just a reversal of the print).