Balancing act

[pesphoto]

For those of us with significant others at home and there being so many responsibilities taking up so much of our time here's a question. How do you manage to get it your shooting, camera buying, printing in the darkroom, etc? Is there a way to balance it all?

[FrankS]

Darkroom work is a late evening and night time activity for me.

[Dave H]

pesphoto,
I’ve been thinking exactly the same thing recently. So I've been taking my camera to work with me. I'm an Engineer / site manager / supervisor for a construction contractor building a new rugby stand. It’s a bit awkward sometimes, but because I'm sort of the boss I can take personnel photos and pass it all off as record photos of the site. Great, but the photos are emm, shall we say have a "select" audience!

I'm with Frank S on the darkroom work though.

[lubitel]

I do my shooting on weekends and during lunchtime, or mornings before work. And take a camera anywhere I go. I dont have a darkroom, I just bring my prints to a local store. I also scan some things and spend some evenings by the computer.

[derevaun]

Wasn't it the movie Vanished in which the protagonist pretended to be in the military reserves in order to pursue his obsession? He'd put on the uniform, drive to a rented space, hang up the uniform and conduct the business of tracking down the guy who kidnapped his girlfriend and buried her alive. It could work!